Justin Sun’s made-up micronation Liberland has fired its secretary of technology after he allegedly blocked President Vít Jedlička from voting and centralised control of the country’s blockchain. That’s according to a “congress resolution” published by Liberland today. As part of the resolution, Dorian Stern Vukotić was removed from the country’s blockchain-based congress and accused of
In brief A new study commissioned by the Coalition for Prediction Markets found Americans wagered up to $34 billion on offshore prediction markets during a 12-month span. It estimated that up to 30% of Polymarket’s trading volume during the period came from Americans. Offshore prediction market trading volume by Americans could grow to as much
Bitcoin fell to 15th place among global assets as technology stocks and new listings dominated the market-cap leaderboard. CompaniesMarketCap data placed the asset below Samsung, Meta, Tesla, Saudi Aramco, and SpaceX. The move came as BTC traded around $63,500, with a market value of about $1.275 trillion. The ranking showed a clear shift in investor
Phong Le, President and CEO of Strategy, the largest institutional investor in the cryptocurrency world, put an end to speculation that the company might be forced to sell Bitcoin. Le stated that the company holds 845,000 Bitcoins, representing approximately 4% of the total supply, and argued that claims of “forced sales” in the market do
Summary Standard Chartered analyst Geoffrey Kendrick says bitcoin has likely set its cycle low at about $59,000, marking the end of the latest crypto downturn. Kendrick argues that heavy selling of spot bitcoin ETFs, partly to free cash for SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO, is likely to ease now that the listing has begun. He says a
SharonAI Holdings shares rose as much as 10% in premarket trading after the company announced a six-year AI infrastructure compute collaboration agreement with NVIDIA, expanding its AI cloud and data center footprint in Australia. The agreement will add 72 megawatts of new data center capacity and support the deployment of NVIDIA’s DSX AI factory design,
Tokyo-listed Metaplanet plans to acquire Siiibo Securities, a regulated online securities platform focused on corporate bond issuance and investment, for ¥2.1 billion, or approximately $13 million, and then rename the business Metaplanet Securities, according to a Friday statement. The transaction is expected to close in August 2026 and forms part of the company’s Project NOVA
Geoff Kendrick, head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered, believes that following the recent sharp pullback in Bitcoin, the market may have largely passed its bottom. According to Kendrick’s assessment, Bitcoin’s decline to around $59,000 marks the weakest point in the cryptocurrency market in recent times. Recalling that the leading cryptocurrency has lost over
Summary SpaceX shares rose 20% in early trading on Friday. The stock is trading under the ticker SPCX and had priced its record-setting initial public offering at $135 a share, raising $75 billion and valuing the company at about $1.8 trillion. Bitcoin was roughly flat, while AI-related crypto stocks were in the green. SpaceX shares