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The team behind Zcash’s core development has stepped down following a dispute over governance, marking a significant moment for one of the crypto industry’s longest-running privacy-focused projects. On Wednesday, the entire staff of the Electric Coin Company (ECC) resigned after a clash with the board of its parent
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Polymarket, a fast-growing prediction market platform, has signed an exclusive agreement with Dow Jones Media to supply its forecasting data across several of the publisher’s flagship outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and Investor’s Business Daily. Under the deal, Polymarket’s prediction data will be featured
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Riot Platforms has sold a significant portion of its bitcoin holdings as pressure mounts across the crypto mining industry, where profitability has been squeezed by falling hashprice levels. In its latest monthly production update, the Colorado-based miner said it sold 1,818 bitcoin in December, generating $161.6 million in
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Barclays has taken a fresh step into the digital assets space by acquiring a stake in Ubyx, a U.S.-based startup focused on stablecoin settlement infrastructure. The move signals the British bank’s growing interest in exploring how tokenized money can operate within established regulatory frameworks, according to a
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Tether has unveiled a new way for users to price and transfer its gold-backed token, Tether Gold (XAUT), with the launch of a unit of account called Scudo. The move is designed to make onchain gold transactions easier to understand and more practical, especially as gold prices continue to rise.
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Brian Quintenz, the former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner whose bid to lead the agency ended last year, has joined the board of directors at SUI Group Holdings. The Minnesota-based company announced Tuesday that Quintenz’s appointment took effect on Jan. 5. The move marks a quick transition
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Shares of Japanese bitcoin treasury firm Metaplanet surged on Tuesday, reflecting renewed momentum across cryptocurrency markets and a broader rally in crypto-linked equities worldwide. Metaplanet’s stock rose 10.7% by midday trading in Japan, according to Yahoo Finance, extending gains seen in its U.S.-traded shares. On Monday,
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Jupiter, one of Solana’s largest decentralized finance platforms, has unveiled its own native stablecoin, JupUSD, marking a significant step in its evolution from a swap aggregator into a full-featured crypto “superapp.” The stablecoin is being launched in partnership with ENA Labs, a contributor to Ethena, and is designed to
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Cango Inc. closed out 2025 with a larger bitcoin balance after increasing its mining output in December, underscoring what the company describes as steady operations during a volatile year for the crypto sector. The New York Stock Exchange-listed miner reported producing 569 bitcoin in December, up from 546.7 BTC
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Shares of BitMine Immersion Technologies climbed sharply on Friday after company chairman Tom Lee unveiled a proposal to dramatically expand the firm’s authorized share count, a move he says is aimed at keeping the stock accessible to a broader range of investors. In a video posted to YouTube, Lee
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Bitcoin mining company Bitfarms Ltd. is completing a strategic exit from Latin America as it sharpens its focus on North American energy and data center infrastructure designed for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC). The company announced on Friday that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its 70-megawatt
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Crypto trading activity slowed sharply in December, with centralized exchange volumes falling to their lowest level in more than a year. New data shows a broad pullback across both centralized and decentralized platforms, reflecting quieter markets, lower volatility, and cautious positioning by investors as the year came to a close.