Coinbase Ventures outlines 4 strategic themes it expects to drive crypto innovation in 2026. The funding arm shared its outlook in a brand new weblog publish, figuring out the precedence areas wherein it goals to speculate. These embrace Real-World Asset (RWA) perpetual contracts, specialised buying and selling infrastructure, next-generation decentralized finance (DeFi), and synthetic intelligence…
The Stellar (XLM) community is experiencing its most lively 12 months of improvement in 2025, with a powerful focus on attracting main monetary establishments. However, XLM value efficiency has moved in the wrong way regardless of strong fundamentals. These developments spotlight Stellar’s rising presence in cross-border funds. They additionally gasoline expectations of a powerful XLM…
South Africa’s central financial institution has echoed a warning from Standard Chartered, confirming that the fast rise of stablecoins may destabilize emerging-market (EM) banks. Standard Chartered initiatives that digital {dollars} may drain as a lot as $1 trillion from EM financial institution deposits over the following three years, as customers and corporates shift financial savings…
Monad has captured the market’s consideration with a pointy surge in demand following the launch of its mainnet and the accompanying airdrop. The hype across the new Layer 1 community has pushed MONAD’s worth considerably larger, fueled by FOMO-driven curiosity and in addition by transactions. Monad Seems To Have Clicked With Investors The anticipation surrounding…
Strategy (previously MicroStrategy) has confirmed that its assets-to-debt collateral ratio would stay at 2.0x, even when Bitcoin (BTC) fell to $25,000, far beneath its $74,000 common buy worth. This comes as the corporate’s inventory has declined by 49% and faces the opportunity of exclusion from MSCI indices, with a choice anticipated by January 2026. (Micro)…
Binance is going through a $1 billion federal lawsuit introduced by 306 victims and households of the October 7, 2023 Hamas assault. This lawsuit follows President Donald Trump’s pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ), casting new mild on accountability for the most important alternate by buying and selling quantity metrics. Federal Lawsuit Alleges Binance…
Bitcoin worth didn’t clear $88,100 with any conviction. It trades close to $87,700, virtually flat on the day, however nonetheless down greater than 3% this week. The rebound from $80,500 gave merchants some hope {that a} backside had shaped. But a number of new alerts now recommend that this backside could also be examined once…
Japan’s Financial Services Agency finalized a big regulatory overhaul, transferring crypto belongings from the Payment Services Act to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA). This change impacts over 13 million home crypto accounts, which collectively maintain greater than 5 trillion yen in deposits. This shift goals to strengthen investor safety amid rising fraud circumstances….
Irys launched just a few hours in the past, and the worth is already displaying a large, early buying and selling vary. It is a Layer 1 information chain constructed to merge on-chain information storage and smart-contract execution, which has made it one in every of the extra anticipated launches this cycle. A doable airdrop-related…
An armed robber posing as a supply employee stole $11 million in Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) from a San Francisco residence linked to tech investor Lachy Groom, previously the associate of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. This dramatic heist is a part of a rising world pattern of violent assaults towards cryptocurrency holders. Security consultants…