Prenetics Global Limited halted its Bitcoin treasury buying program, ending daily purchases announced in June to refocus on its consumer health brand co-founded with former football player David Beckham. According to an announcement on Tuesday, the company paused its Bitcoin purchases on Dec. 4 and will not pursue additional BTC acquisitions, focusing instead on scaling…
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Strategy announced its latest Bitcoin purchase of 2025, adding 1,229 BTC after a year of accelerated accumulation that saw the company disclose more acquisitions than in the previous two years combined. According to a Form 8-K filed on Monday, the coins were acquired Dec. 22-28 for an aggregate purchase price of $108.8 million, funded through…
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Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov said a recently launched stablecoin pegged to the country’s fiat currency has been listed on cryptocurrency exchange Binance. In a Wednesday X post, Japarov said Kyrgyzstan’s KGST stablecoin, pegged to the som, would contribute to the development of cross-border payments and deepen the country’s ties to the crypto ecosystem. Binance CEO…
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An experimental orchestral project in Brazil aims to convert Bitcoin price data into live music, after receiving approval to raise funds through one of the country’s tax-incentive programs for cultural initiatives. According to Brazil’s Federal Register, the authorization allows the project to seek up to 1.09 million reais ($197,000) from private companies and individual donors…
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Cipher Mining has acquired a 200-megawatt power site in Ohio called “Ulysses,” marking its first expansion outside of Texas and entry into the PJM wholesale electricity market, the largest power market in the United States. According to Tuesday’s announcement, the 195-acre site has secured power capacity from AEP Ohio, with all required utility agreements in…
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Crypto exchange OKX said volume in its licensed and regulated markets increased 53-fold in 2025, driven by its expansion into the United States and the European Economic Area. Citing internal data, the exchange said daily active wallets doubled over the past year, with an average of about 190,000 new wallets created each day, while decentralized…
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Stablecoins could process more transaction volume than the US Automated Clearing House system in 2026, as regulatory clarity and rising adoption expand their usage, according to a new forecast. Galaxy Research, the research arm of digital asset company Galaxy Digital, pointed to existing transaction data and regulatory developments to support its prediction, noting that “stablecoin…
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Arthur Hayes, co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange BitMEX, argued in a Substack essay published Friday that the Federal Reserve’s new “reserve management purchases” (RMP) program is effectively a rebranded form of quantitative easing. Hayes argues that by buying short-term Treasury bills and recycling liquidity through money markets, the Fed is effectively financing government…
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A new Federal Reserve discussion paper finds that the US dollar’s role in global bond markets has risen and fallen in cycles over the past six decades, with no clear long-term trend toward either greater dollar dominance or de-dollarization. Using the Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) international debt securities database, the authors identify three distinct…
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Bitcoin treasury company Kindly MD has received a Nasdaq notice after its shares traded below the exchange’s $1 minimum bid price for 30 consecutive business days, starting a six-month window to regain compliance or risk being delisted. The notice, which was issued Wednesday, does not immediately affect trading, but gives the company until June 8,…
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