Foundry Digital, one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools by hash rate, said it plans to introduce a zcash (ZEC) mining pool next month, expanding beyond BTC and bringing a large institutional operator into the privacy-focused network. With the new pool, Foundry aims to offer zcash miners a US-based platform designed around compliance checks, reporting […]
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Ghana’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said 11 companies have been granted access to a regulatory sandbox to test cryptocurrency and digital asset services under the country’s Virtual Asset Service Providers Act, 2025. The program allows companies to run their products in a controlled environment while regulators monitor risk and compliance. The sandbox will run
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Rough bitcoin tax company Strive (ASST) announced a series of balance sheet moves on Wednesday. The company bought another 179 bitcoin, bringing the total holdings to 13,311 BTC, worth about $930 million at current prices. Strive also raised the yield on its perennial favorite security SATA by 25 basis points to 12.75%. SATA was ahead
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The US market regulators are merging their activities in the places where the duties of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) overlap, and building a crypto surveillance framework is listed among the core objectives of a written agreement released on Wednesday. Most of the objectives of the MoU,
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Three former executives who held high-profile legal, policy and product roles at crypto exchange OKX have unveiled an easy-to-access decentralized financial connectivity platform called Shredpay, targeting both retail and institutional customers in the US The Shredpay founding team consists of CEO Mauricio Beugelmans, the former head of legal at OKX; president Melissa Muehlfeld, former OKX
Bitcoin’s resilience during the latest round of global macro stress is beginning to turn heads on trading desks. The biggest crypto rose to just $71,000, up about 7% from Sunday night’s lows, even as geopolitical tensions escalated over the Iran conflict and markets grappled with risks ranging from oil supply disruptions to stress on private
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Crypto platform Bullish ( BLSH ), which operates an institutional-only crypto exchange, climbed into the top three centralized crypto exchanges by spot trading volume for the first time in February, overtaking Coinbase ( COIN ) as trading activity across the industry slowed, according to CoinDesk Data’s February Exchange Review. Spot trading volume on Bullish, the
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The European Central Bank on Wednesday unveiled the timeline for the eurozone’s initiative to shape the development of a tokenized wholesale financial ecosystem based on the single currency and ensure the euro’s continued relevance as an international currency. The strategy includes Pontes, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) layer for transactions seen debuting in the third
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Revolut, the London-based crypto-friendly fintech, said it received a full UK banking licence, allowing it to offer a wider range of services and provide deposit protection for eligible funds nearly two years after receiving limited registration. The company, which was valued at around $75 billion in a funding round in November, created a new entity
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