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CoinRabbit was named Best Crypto Lending Platform 2026 by International Business Magazine. The accolade cites the platform's lending product, which has issued more than $1.45 billion in loans since 2020, its no-rehypothecation policy and a Private Program tailored for portfolios of $500,000 and above as key reasons for the selection. The recognitio…
Liquid Mercury said its ACQUA1, LLC subsidiary completed the initial closing of a MERC exchange offering on September 1, 2026. Verified accredited investors exchanged MERC for non-voting Class B units at a conversion rate of 10 MERC per unit. The 563,230,000 MERC received at the initial closing were transferred to a dead address and removed from ci…
Bitcoin extended a recent rebound on Friday, trading near $81,000 after US rate-hike fears cooled and positive regulatory remarks boosted sentiment. The world’s largest cryptocurrency rose about 4.2% to $80,943.6 by 02:22 ET (06:22 GMT) and briefly traded above $82,000 earlier. A drop in Treasury yields following remarks from Federal Reserve Govern…
Grupo Salinas has chosen Integral Digital to power COINPRO’s institutional trading desk for digital assets. Integral will supply a unified technology stack to aggregate liquidity, automate price formation, manage orders and positions, enforce risk controls and deliver real-time analytics across digital assets and fiat currencies. The setup is inten…
DWF Labs announced that a group entity has received Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) approval from the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission under the Virtual Assets Service Providers Act 2022. The registration permits the firm to provide exchange services for virtual assets and participate in services tied to the offer or sale …
Bitcoin traded with little net change on Thursday, remaining under recent highs as market participants awaited a sequence of regulatory and geopolitical developments in the United States. Interest-rate expectations and renewed U.S.-Iran tensions tempered risk appetite across the broader crypto complex despite fresh corporate buying and targeted ral…
GSR announced the registration of two Cayman Islands entities under the Securities Investment Business Act with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, extending the firm’s regulated footprint to support trading, liquidity, and asset management services as traditional financial assets migrate onchain. The move follows recent acquisitions that broade…
Bitcoin slipped after a strong August run, pressured by fresh U.S.-Iran hostilities and rising Treasury yields. Renewed corporate buying provided limited support while investors await U.S. jobs data for further rate guidance. Major altcoins also retreated amid elevated market risk aversion and rising energy-driven inflation concerns.
<p>Bybit has added 20 new Shariah-compliant trading pairs to its Islamic Account, marking the first tranche toward a target of 100 new pairs this year. Each pair was vetted by the exchange's Shariah advisory partners. The Islamic Account provides spot trading and automated trading tools designed to align with Islamic finance principles, and the sta…
Silhouette has deployed its RFQ system to mainnet on Hyperliquid, launching with xStocks tokenized equities. The system allows traders to request quotes from onboarded market makers, receive competing bids, and settle the winning trade onchain at any time and at size. The release positions Silhouette as a demand-discovery layer that feeds assets in…
<p>Alkemya Metacore SCSp has closed an initial USD 50 million pre-launch capital raise and announced a new tranche sale of ALKN tokens at USD 1.00 each ahead of a regulated listing on Bitfinex Securities. The Luxembourg-based partnership holds about 7 million metres of 99.99% ultra-pure nickel wire, independently valued at around USD 1.64 billion a…
Theorem has launched an exchange infrastructure aimed at unlocking secondary-market liquidity for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). Built on Algebra Integral, the platform lets issuers, tokenization platforms, and blockchain networks deploy and manage their own trading venues with configurable rules such as KYC, ownership limits, market hours, an…
Bitcoin climbed on Tuesday to roughly $79,015 as Strategy Inc (NASDAQ:MSTR) restarted Bitcoin acquisitions after a two-month pause. The advance followed a strong August performance, but markets remained cautious amid renewed expectations for higher U.S. interest rates and fresh U.S.-Iran military activity that pushed oil prices higher and kept inve…
ChangeNOW has onboarded Qastle Wallet, Krown Technologies' quantum-secured multi-chain wallet, into its Fast Track Program. The integration brings ChangeNOW's swap and fiat on- and off-ramp capabilities to Qastle users, enabling access to more than 1,500 assets across 90+ networks and streamlining routes between the native KROWN token and fiat curr…
CK Zheng, formerly global head of valuation risk at Credit Suisse and now co-founder and CIO of ZX Squared Capital, believes Bitcoin has endured the deepest part of its current cycle and projects a rise to $150,000 by late 2027. Zheng attributes the potential rally to clearer regulation, ongoing institutional adoption through ETFs and corporate tre…
Blackboard, a non-custodial onchain trading terminal, will begin a phased Alpha on September 1. The platform links liquidity and markets across protocols, applications, and chains through a single interface, initially offering perpetual futures, prediction markets and trading cards. Early access is controlled via a waitlist with a scoring system an…
<p>Paybis has deployed a package of enhancements to its embedded On/Off Ramp product that shortens mobile integration time, adds PayPal as a US payment option, and extends compliance capabilities tied to Travel Rule requirements. The updates include a React Native SDK that the company says reduces integration to minutes, performance improvements ac…
Bitcoin is trading in a tight range on the 5-hour chart between $77,000 and $81,000, with momentum moderating. Critical support clustered at $76,200 to $77,000 - defined by the SuperTrend and the base of the Ichimoku cloud - stands as the last meaningful defense for bulls. Short-term indicators have turned negative, and a breakout from this squeeze…
Bitcoin traded close to $78,000 and was largely unchanged over the prior 24 hours as market attention shifted to how expanded international exchange-traded fund access and more practical messaging to everyday investors could shape the next leg of adoption. Industry observers highlighted the role of non-U.S. institutional flows, improvements in stab…
Bitcoin slipped under $78,000 after climbing above $81,000 earlier in the week, as data show its 90-day correlation with gold has risen markedly while its link to the Nasdaq 100 has weakened. On-chain metrics indicate little selling from the oldest holders, while macro factors such as U.S. federal debt topping $40 trillion and renewed 'debasement' …
Pablo Hernandez de Cos, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, told the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium that stablecoins are not a credible large-scale payment method. He argued tokenized deposits present a preferable way to capture the benefits of tokenisation for everyday transactions, while stablecoins may have special…
Predictions.io has launched a centralized tracker covering more than 9,700 markets across Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold, and published free fee and odds-conversion tools. The service surfaces price divergences on identically worded midterm questions - in some cases gaps of 8.5 percentage points - while the broader prediction-market sector reports…
ZMO has officially launched a trading venue that pairs professional trading infrastructure with a simplified, one-click user experience. The platform debuts four primary product lines - Up or Down, 1-Click Futures, AutoTrader and Smart Earn - while also offering a full-featured spot and futures environment with more than 450 tradable instruments, A…
Margex has introduced Competitions Mode, a set of free weekly trading contests anchored by a Fantasy League that awards a 10,000 USDT weekly prize pool. The format emphasizes price-direction accuracy across five selected crypto pairs from users' recent trading activity, with real-time leaderboard updates and cash payouts for eligible participants.
Sui Basecamp 2026 will convene founders, builders, investors, and technologists at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on October 7-8, colocated with TOKEN2049. The agenda focuses on the emerging agentic economy - autonomous, machine-driven transactions - covering instant settlement, private transactions, stable digital dollars, and post-quantum security…
