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Bitcoin pushed toward the $70,000 level in a rapid intraday move, putting a major psychological price area back into play as traders reacted to improving market sentiment and short-side pressure.Market data showed BTC trading near the $69,500 to $70,000 range on August 20. The move came during a bro…
BlackRock has reduced the in-kind conversion minimum for its iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million, potentially making the mechanism available to a wider group of institutional participants.The change was disclosed in an updated IBIT filing and relates to in-kind creation and redempti…
Riot Platforms has signed a long-term data center lease agreement tied to Anthropic, giving the Bitcoin miner another route into AI and high-performance computing as miners continue looking beyond block rewards.The company’s filing describes a 20-year lease agreement for 191 megawatts of critical IT…
Coinbase has launched futures, options, and perpetuals for professional clients in the United Kingdom, expanding its derivatives offering through its MiFID authorization.The rollout is not for UK retail users. Eligibility is limited to users classified as Professional Clients, which means they must …
Luke Dashjr has been removed as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editor after a dispute around BIP-110, marking a rare governance flashpoint inside Bitcoin’s usually slow-moving technical process.The change was merged through Pull Request 2248 in the bitcoin/bips repository, removing Dashjr from the e…
A Swiss cantonal bank has moved crypto trading directly into its normal banking experience, and that is the part of the story that matters most.BancaStato, the state bank of the Canton of Ticino, has partnered with Sygnum and Avaloq to let clients buy, hold, and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and…
The Smarter Web Company has sold part of its Bitcoin treasury to repay an $11.7 million convertible debt facility held by TOBAM, choosing balance-sheet flexibility over additional equity dilution.The company said it sold 177.8909127 BTC at an average price of $65,762 to repay the “Smarter Convert” i…
A hacker tied to the Trusted Volumes exploit has returned 1,122 ETH to the protocol, closing part of a security incident that began with a multi-million-dollar exploit earlier this year.The on-chain recovery is unusual because the attacker did not return everything. Instead, the wallet linked to the…
The SEC’s proposed Regulation Crypto framework is moving into focus because it touches one of the hardest questions in digital-asset regulation: how should decentralized finance be treated when the law was built for identifiable intermediaries?That question has been sitting unresolved for years.Cent…
Kraken Institutional is moving deeper into one of the messier corners of digital assets: how to value crypto holdings that do not trade like Bitcoin, Ethereum, or the major liquid tokens.The exchange’s institutional arm has partnered with Upshot to bring valuation tools into its stack, with the focu…
Kraken is updating its borrow product in a way that speaks directly to one of the central questions for active crypto traders: what can they do with collateral once it is sitting on the platform?The update focuses on making borrowed funds and collateral mechanics more useful inside Kraken Pro, givin…
XRP is still struggling to turn better regulatory sentiment into a clean market breakout.The token has been hovering below the $1.06–$1.08 area, with traders watching whether the improved legal backdrop can finally translate into stronger demand. That is the tension in the current XRP setup. The mar…