Markets
Digital asset treasury companies are navigating one of their toughest stretches this year as falling crypto prices pull down both their stock values and the worth of the tokens they hold. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana have all retreated sharply from their October highs, and the decline is rippling across the
Security
US officials have spent months examining whether equipment from Bitmain, one of the world’s largest suppliers of bitcoin mining machines, could pose risks to national security, according to a report from Bloomberg. The Beijing-based company dominates the global market for specialized mining hardware, and its presence across major US
AI
The Royal Navy has introduced a new digital helper named Atlas, an AI-powered avatar designed to handle the first round of recruitment questions for potential submariners. The move reflects a growing push toward faster, more responsive support in high-demand roles while easing the load on human recruitment teams. Atlas is
Markets
Crypto markets were hit with another sharp downturn on Friday as a wave of forced liquidations wiped out close to two billion dollars in leveraged positions. Bitcoin briefly slid to about 82,000 dollars, pulling the total value of the crypto market below the three trillion dollar mark for the
AI
OpenAI has rolled out group chats inside ChatGPT, giving users a way to bring up to 20 people into a shared conversation with the chatbot. The feature is now live for all logged-in users after a brief pilot earlier in the month, shifting ChatGPT from a private, one-to-one assistant into
Markets
Spot bitcoin ETFs in the United States faced one of their toughest trading days on record Thursday, posting nearly 903.11 million dollars in net outflows. It was the second-largest daily withdrawal since the products launched, according to data from SoSoValue. Eight funds saw money leave, with BlackRock’s IBIT
Markets
Bitcoin slipped to fresh multi-month lows on Thursday after stronger US employment figures raised doubts about an early interest rate cut. The leading cryptocurrency fell 7.32 percent over the past 24 hours to around 85,700 dollars late Thursday evening, its weakest level in nearly seven months and now
Politics
Michael Selig, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, cleared a key hurdle on Thursday. The Senate Agriculture Committee voted 12 to 11 along party lines to advance his nomination, sending it to the full Senate for consideration. The move came just one day after
Opinion
Michael Saylor’s company Strategy, previously known as MicroStrategy, may face significant outflows if MSCI and other major index providers decide to remove it from their equity benchmarks. That warning comes from JPMorgan analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, who outlined the risks in a new report. Strategy’s stock has
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Finance
Metaplanet is preparing for another major addition to its bitcoin holdings, announcing plans to purchase roughly $95 million worth of BTC after raising fresh capital through a new preferred share offering. The company revealed it will issue 23,610,000 Class B Preferred Shares, called MERCURY, at ¥900 (about $5.
Security
The GANA Payment project suffered a major security breach on Wednesday, losing more than $3.1 million in an attack that pushed the small BNB Smart Chain token into a deep crisis, according to onchain analyst ZachXBT. Blockchain data shows the attacker gathered the stolen assets at a BSC address