Explore the intersection of cryptocurrency and traditional finance with the latest news, analysis, and insights on digital assets and global markets.
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Hong Kong’s leading companies are quietly reshaping how corporate treasuries work — and they’re doing it with crypto. Once focused almost entirely on Bitcoin, firms are now adding Ethereum (ETH), Binance Coin (BNB), and Solana (SOL) to their balance sheets, signaling a broader shift toward what’s being called
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Johannesburg-based financial services firm Altvest Capital Ltd. is making a bold pivot into cryptocurrency, announcing plans to raise $210 million to purchase Bitcoin and establish a dedicated treasury reserve. Alongside the move, the company will rebrand as Africa Bitcoin Corp, positioning itself as the first publicly listed African firm to
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Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, is weighing a deeper move into gold, according to a report from the Financial Times. The company, best known for its USDT token, has reportedly discussed investing across the gold supply chain—covering everything from mining and refining to trading and royalty companies.
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Kraken has announced the acquisition of Breakout, a crypto-native proprietary trading platform co-founded by well-known “Crypto Twitter” figures TraderMayne and CryptoCred. The deal, completed on September 1, comes less than two years after Breakout’s launch and marks another step in Kraken’s expansion into advanced trading services. What Breakout
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Taiwan-based crypto venture capital firm Sora Ventures has unveiled plans for a $1 billion fund dedicated to investing in Asian companies adopting bitcoin as a treasury asset. The firm has already secured $200 million in initial commitments from regional partners and investors, with the goal of reaching the full amount
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AlphaTON Capital is making a bold move into digital assets, anchoring its entire corporate treasury strategy around Toncoin (TON), the native cryptocurrency of The Open Network. The company, formerly known as Portage Biotech Inc., announced on Sept. 3 that it had secured $38.2 million in a private placement and
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Crypto exchange KuCoin has unveiled KuMining, a new cloud mining platform that gives retail investors access to large-scale Bitcoin (BTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), and Litecoin (LTC) mining without the need for costly hardware or complex energy management. According to the announcement, KuMining launches with 10 exahashes per second (EH/s) of
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Billionaire investor Ray Dalio is sounding the alarm: U.S. politics are drifting toward what he calls a “1930s-style autocracy,” and the financial fallout could be severe. In an interview with the Financial Times, Dalio warned that growing political interference in the Federal Reserve could weaken the dollar, push long-term
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Most crypto investors track charts, technical indicators, or even global money supply to predict Bitcoin’s next big move. But there’s another factor quietly steering the market: central bank liquidity. Recent analysis suggests that changes in central bank balance sheets may explain Bitcoin’s price swings more accurately than
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A technical glitch in Paradigm’s Ethereum execution client, Reth, briefly disrupted operations for some nodes this week, highlighting the challenges of maintaining blockchain infrastructure. The issue, confirmed by Paradigm’s chief technology officer Georgios Konstantopoulos, occurred at block 2327426 and affected Reth versions 1.6.0 and 1.4.
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The Trump family’s cryptocurrency portfolio swelled on paper this week after the official debut of World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token, adding nearly $5 billion in theoretical value overnight. World Liberty Financial - Where DeFi Meets TradFiBridging legacy finance and the open economy with purpose-built, on-chain products.World Liberty
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Binance has appointed SB Seker, a former senior executive at Crypto.com, as its new head of Asia-Pacific (APAC), strengthening its focus on regulatory engagement and regional expansion. The announcement, made Monday, confirms that Seker will oversee strategy, operations, and compliance across APAC, a key growth market for the world’