GameStop’s (GME) huge $420 million bitcoin BTC$69,222.82 The transfer earlier this year was not an exit – but it also does not hold the coins anymore. In its annual report filed on Tuesday, the video game retailer revealed that 4,709 BTC — out of its 4,710 coins — had been pledged to crypto exchange giant […]
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OKX doesn’t plan to rush into public markets in the US, even as the crypto exchange pushes deeper into global expansion and tokenized finance. “We will go public when we are confident we can return shareholder value,” Haider Rafique, the firm’s general manager and chief marketing officer, said during a conversation at the Digital Asset
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed into law a sweeping set of reforms aimed at cracking down on organized crime, and cryptocurrencies are at the center of the strategy. Under Law No. 15,358, passed on March 25, crypto-assets confiscated from criminal organizations can be entered into Brazil’s public security system. This includes funding
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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is focused on integrating blockchain technology into existing market infrastructure rather than replacing it, according to Chief Product Officer Jon Herrick. The exchange “strives for interoperability” and “builds on top of what exists” as it explores how tokenized assets can work within current systems, Herrick said. This approach reflects
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Bitcoin BTC$68,931.41 fell below $69,000 on Thursday as a broader pullback in risk assets gathered pace as early optimism around Iran-US peace and eased tensions in the Middle East faded. The largest crypto lost more than 3% from its overnight high above $71,000, while major altcoins ether (ETH), XRP (XRP), Solana’s SOL (SOL) and Cardano’s
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Wall Street firms may embrace blockchain technology, just not in its current form. The open, distributed ledger visible to all participants is at odds with the way traditional finance works, said Don Wilson, founder and CEO of DRW, a TradFi trading firm that has been active in crypto for over a decade. “There’s no world
Bitcoin BTC$68,953.10 has proven more resilient than traditional safe-haven assets as gold and silver come under pressure from outflows, positioning unwinds and deteriorating liquidity, according to Wall Street investment bank JPMorgan. “The deterioration of liquidity conditions in gold has seen its market breadthfall below bitcoin at the moment,” analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou wrote in
In today’s newsletter, Claudia Marcela Hernández analyzes how stablecoins have evolved beyond volatility fixers to become the fundamental settlement asset for global tokenized markets and cross-border payments, following the clarity of the GENIUS Act. After that, i Ask an expertMorva Rohani breaks down how stablecoin regulation serves as a foundation for tokenized capital markets, why
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Financial compliance has always been balanced on a delicate line: regulators need enough visibility to keep bad actors out, but users want their financial lives to be kept private just to make a payment or exchange. In 2025, that tension is sharper than ever. We have stricter anti-money laundering (AML) rules, broader data protection regimes,
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Wall Street bank Citi says proposed limits on stablecoin rewards in the latest draft of US market structure legislation would be a setback for Circle ( CRCL ) but not a fundamental threat to the investment case. “We see this development potentially (but not necessarily) as a scaling setback, but not a thesis killer,” analysts
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