Japan’s financial regulator is betting that blockchain and artificial intelligence will reshape how money and securities move through the country’s markets. The Financial Services Agency has confirmed that Japan on-chain finance policy will sit at the center of its 2026 program year, with plans stretching across payments, securities settlement, tokenized assets and cross-border transfers. The
Bitcoin fell to an intraday low below $75,000 on Sept. 15, extending a selloff already underway ahead of the Senate vote on the CLARITY Act. The Senate failed 49-50 to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to the bill, short of the 60 votes required, leading Bitcoin to its intraday low. Coinbase fell about
Bitcoin Core, the software used to run Bitcoin nodes, has moved its next major update into final testing with changes to transaction fees, block processing and the way wallets build transactions. The first release candidate for Bitcoin Core 32.0 was tagged on Sept. 14, starting the final testing cycle before developers aim to release the
The bitcoin BTC$75,888.13 market turned idiosyncratic ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve interest-rate decision, and is no longer tracking the Dollar Index or U.S. stocks. CoinMarketCap data show bitcoin’s short-window correlation with the index, which measures the U.S. currency’s strength against a basket of peers, has collapsed to nearly zero, while its positive link to equities
Bitcoin BTC$75.917,53 traders aren’t exactly panicking about Wednesday’s expected Federal Reserve rate hike, but they aren’t taking many chances either. Markets are pricing a 92.5% chance the Fed raises rates for the first time in three years after strong employment data and stubborn inflation. Bitcoin has spent the past 24 days stuck between roughly $76,000
Digital asset financial services firm Two Prime unveiled a bitcoin $BTC$75,917.53 lending vault on Pareto, targeting annual yields of 1.5% to 2% by lending to institutional borrowers. The Axiom WBTC Yield Vault accepts wrapped bitcoin (WBTC), a token representing bitcoin that can be used on other blockchain networks. The vault requires a minimum deposit of
U.S. spot bitcoin $BTC$75,879.65 ETFs shed $450 million on Tuesday, according to SoSoValue, the heaviest single-day outflow since June 25, after the U.S. Senate declined to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Bitcoin $BTC$75,879.65 is little changed since midnight UTC, after dropping following the vote, which garnered around 10 fewer votes than the 60
Deutsche Bank’s (DB) digital asset custody service is set to go live by the end of the year. Germany’s largest bank said the service, subject to the completion of applicable regulatory checks, will give European institutional and corporate clients regulated custody of digital assets. The service will support a select range of cryptocurrencies at debut,
Grayscale’s new bitcoin-excluding model portfolio for financial advisors gives a target weight of 26.11% to its $XRP fund. This makes the token the second-largest holding behind Ether and puts $XRP in the top three across the firm’s two flagship strategies. Every strategy caps a single asset at 40% Grayscale Investments announced the launch of its
Circle CRCL$84.86·Market Closed launched its Arc blockchain on Wednesday, making its biggest push yet beyond issuing the $74 billion stablecoin $USDC $USDC$1.0004 . Competition is heating up to among the largest blockchain companies to provide the rails for moving money and financial assets onchain. “This is, I believe, the most consequential major platform launch in