Long before big-ticket crypto deals and billion-dollar acquisitions make headlines, there’s a long and hard-fought journey, often culminating in a secretive contest where jockeying suitors bid, bluff or walk, until eventually the best match makes it down the aisle. Mastercard’s recent $1.8 billion acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK was no exception. It’s a process
Empire Digital, one of the companies that places Bitcoin at the center of its treasury strategy, has made a significant change to its reserves. According to the company’s latest quarterly report, Empire Digital sold a total of 1,635 $BTC for $102.2 million between July 1 and August 6. Following the sales, the total amount of
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood said that the widespread adoption of AI-powered commerce could create significant opportunities for Bitcoin and stablecoins. Wood specifically noted that Bitcoin and stablecoins are the two digital assets that could benefit most from this new commerce model, known as “agent commerce,” where AI agents handle purchases, payments, and financial transactions
Market fluctuations and tightening funding conditions in the cryptocurrency sector in 2026 led to the closure of numerous projects. More than 100 crypto projects have shut down since the beginning of the year, with some companies filing for bankruptcy or permanently ceasing operations. It is noted that this wave of liquidations is not limited to
A renewed dispute among prominent Bitcoin voices has reopened a question that has followed the network since its major 2017 splits. The argument is not whether the protocol changed. Several upgrades have altered transaction handling, scripting, and validation without replacing its mining algorithm. Instead, the dispute concerns which changes preserve Bitcoin’s identity and which create
This week brings a heavy mix of inflation, consumer and energy data that could influence risk assets and crypto prices. Bitcoin is approaching a key resistance zone, while $XRP and Ethereum analysts are watching different technical setups. Here’s what could matter most for the market. Crypto This Week The week is packed with economic releases,
New York Stock Exchange President Lynn Martin said on Aug. 10 that the exchange is continuing to develop infrastructure for onchain settlement of tokenized securities, months after outlining plans for a dedicated digital trading platform. Speaking at a National Assembly seminar in Seoul, Martin also confirmed NYSE participated in The Depository Trust Company’s July tokenization
Joachim Nagel’s Bid To Become ECB President Under Consideration The position of European Central Bank (ECB) president could be open before 2027, and an anti-crypto economist might be in the race to take it over. Bloomberg reports indicate that discussions are underway to back a German economist for the ECB Presidency if a contingency arises,
Neo SPCC released NeoFS S3 Gateway v0.45.1 on Aug. 4, a patch update delivering three performance optimizations and a metadata fix to the S3-compatible interface for NeoFS decentralized storage. Two of the three improvements are enabled by NeoFS SDK Go RC21, which shipped days earlier alongside NeoFS Node v0.55.0. The release builds on S3 Gateway
Crypto venture funding market continues to express an active participation. In this respect, the past week has witnessed a total of $76.4 million in funding across the crypto ventures. As per the data from CryptoRank, Yellow Card has become the top project, with InvestiFi, and Vangrid following it. Subsequently, JPYC, Yooldo, Global Ledger, and ZIGChain