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According to a DOJ announcement , a man already serving a federal prison sentence has been charged in connection with the alleged theft of forfeited cryptocurrency valued at roughly $290,000.
ARK Invest has purchased another 217,896 shares of Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, in a transaction valued at approximately $13. 7 million.
Alatau City Bank in Kazakhstan has integrated 5,000 point-of-sale terminals with Binance Pay, connecting traditional banking infrastructure with crypto-enabled payments across the country.
Bitdeer has announced plans to invest $36 million in a manufacturing facility in Nevada tied to its Bitcoin mining operations, marking a significant push to expand its U. S.
The test centered on using stablecoins to settle a cross-border payment between Hyundai Card and its affiliates, according to The Korea Times . This is an intercompany use case, meaning the funds moved between entities within the same corporate group rather than to external customers or merchants.
Ripple-backed t54. ai has announced the launch of an AI payments hub built on the XRP Ledger, coinciding with the network reportedly surpassing 1 million AI-driven payments.
Strike has launched Bitcoin-backed loans that the company says come with no scheduled liquidations, offering BTC holders a way to access cash without selling their holdings.
Clearstream has expanded its cryptocurrency custody service to include XRP, SOL, ADA and AVAX, broadening the range of digital assets available to institutional clients through the Deutsche Boerse-owned post-trade infrastructure provider.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a civil enforcement action against Trevor Vernon and his firm Argent Capital, alleging they operated a $14 million crypto pool fraud scheme that deceived investors about the use and safety of their funds.
Bitcoin Suisse has secured a full Financial Services Permission from Abu Dhabi's Financial Services Regulatory Authority, marking a significant regulatory milestone for the Swiss crypto firm's expansion into the Middle East.
Bitcoin Suisse has secured a Financial Services Permission from the Abu Dhabi Global Market, marking the Swiss crypto firm's first regulated foothold in the Middle East as it pursues broader UAE expansion.
The Edinburgh-based investment firm announced the fund, known as BAGEY, on June 22, 2026, in partnership with BNY. Baillie Gifford described BAGEY as the first publicly available, fully native UK-regulated tokenised fund, structured as a dollar-denominated open-ended investment company.
Coinbase has secured a MiFID investment services authorization in the United Kingdom, marking a regulatory milestone that positions the exchange to offer regulated investment products in one of Europe's largest financial markets.
Polymarket is expanding into Türkiye through an integration with Paribu, the country's leading cryptocurrency exchange, marking the first time Turkish users gain direct access to prediction markets through a local platform.
The United Nations Development Programme is expanding its partnership with the Stellar blockchain network after pilot programs demonstrated meaningful reductions in aid payment costs, signaling a results-driven move toward blockchain-based humanitarian finance.
Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, is reportedly planning to launch a cryptocurrency wallet by December, a move that would mark one of the most significant entries by a traditional financial institution into the country's digital asset infrastructure.
Bitmine has added 42,197 ETH to its treasury, a move that coincided with a rise in the company's BMNR stock price and reinforced its position as one of the most aggressive corporate holders of Ether.
Strategy has sold 3,588 BTC, reducing its corporate Bitcoin treasury to a total of 843,775 Bitcoin. The disposal, disclosed through the company's public filings, marks a rare instance of the firm trimming its position after years of aggressive accumulation.
A DeFi exploit on Ethereum drained an estimated $6 million from users lured by a fraudulent 2,000,000% APY offering, according to security alerts flagged by blockchain security firm Blockaid.
Aave's newly launched market on the Monad blockchain has reportedly surpassed $100 million in deposits within just two days of going live, marking one of the fastest capital ramps for a new deployment of the decentralized lending protocol.