Kaia, a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain focused on fast finality and gas abstraction, has announced a strategic partnership with Elliptic, a prominent crypto-intelligence company that provides blockchain analytics and forensics for compliance. The primary purpose of this collaboration is to provide institutional-grade compliance, security, and transaction-monitoring infrastructure. Mainstream adoption requires institutional trust.@elliptic now provides full compliance
Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, is now accepting Bitcoin as payment for his artwork on his official website. The homepage of Hunter Biden’s official website, hunterbiden.com, features his signature bright, large-scale floral paintings, while the footer now includes a simple but striking notice: “BITCOIN ACCEPTED,” listed alongside links to the site’s
Binance has launched perpetual futures that allow users to trade the anticipated valuations of private companies before they go public. The first contract to go live is tied to SpaceX, a company expected to debut at a valuation of $2 trillion or more. The “Pre-IPO Perpetual Contracts” are designed to provide retail traders with early
Payment giant Mastercard announced it has acquired BVNK, a UK-based fintech startup developing stablecoin infrastructure, for $1.8 billion. The acquisition is considered one of the biggest moves by traditional financial companies into the digital asset and stablecoin space. BVNK offers stablecoin payment services in over 130 countries worldwide and holds payment licenses in numerous countries.
Key points: Bitcoin is at a critical juncture, as a close below $76,000 may deepen the pullback toward $70,000. $HYPE and $ZEC are in an up move, but most other major altcoins are struggling to find support. Bitcoin ($BTC) has risen above $77,500, but the recovery is expected to face resistance in the $78,500-$82,000 range.
The number of unique holders of tokenized exchange-traded funds (ETFs) surged 11,803% year over year (YoY) to an all-time high (ATH) on May 20. As of press time, the number of tokenized ETF holders was about 44,400, up from 373 a year ago, according to metrics from Token Terminal analyzed by Finbold. Consequently, the unique
The US government has frozen nearly $500 million in cryptocurrency linked to Iran, with the bulk of that haul, some $344 million, seized in just the past month. The crackdown is part of a broader campaign called “Operation Economic Fury,” aimed at cutting off Tehran’s ability to use digital assets to dodge sanctions. Treasury Secretary
NHN KCP, one of South Korea’s largest payment gateway providers, has launched a pilot project aimed at accelerating the commercialization of stablecoin payments as competition grows to build blockchain-based payment infrastructure. The company announced today it is conducting a proof of concept with Payco, a mobile payment app that competes with Naver Pay and Kakao
Nvidia just went from shipping $4.6 billion worth of its most advanced AI chips to China to shipping exactly none. Zero. In a single quarter. The company’s CFO confirmed that no data center Hopper architecture shipments reached China this quarter, a jaw-dropping decline from approximately $4.6 billion in Q1 2026. For a company that has