Cryptocurrency News

Japan added Russian crypto exchange Garantex to its asset-freeze list this week, joining the U.S. and European Union in targeting a platform Treasury says handled more than $100 million tied to ransomware and other illicit activity. There’s one catch. U.S. authorities seized Garantex’s domain in March 2025, and Treasury says its staff had already shifted…Read More

While some national polls favored President Lula over Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, Polymarket accurately predicted the opposite outcome days before the polls, giving Bolsonaro a lead. This behavior is similar to what happened before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, when Trump emerged victorious. Polymarket Beats Polls In the Brazilian Election Prediction markets have become a reliable…Read More

The Ethereum Foundation and Open Anonymity Project have launched zkAPI, a system that lets people prepay for AI and other metered services without attaching their billing identity to every request. Live on Ethereum mainnet since Oct. 1, zkAPI uses zero-knowledge proofs and disposable API keys to separate the person paying from what they’re buying. There’s…Read More

XRP’s long history and familiar financial applications help explain its appeal to institutional investors, according to Bitwise’s investment chief. His comments frame advisor interest around confidence in the asset’s longevity and connections to established financial functions. XRP’s Staying Power Gives Advisors Confidence Financial advisors evaluating XRP find assurance in its long track record and recognizable…Read More

Law and Ledger is a news segment focusing on crypto legal news, brought to you by Kelman Law – A law firm focused on digital asset commerce. The opinion editorial below was written by Michael Handelsman for Kelman.Law. This week brought a legal challenge to the federal chartering route used by crypto businesses, new U.S.…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine IMF Praises El Salvador — But Still Tries To Scale Back Its Bitcoin Project The International Monetary Fund approved a $139 million disbursement to El Salvador but still wants it to scale back its Bitcoin project. This post IMF Praises El Salvador — But Still Tries To Scale Back Its Bitcoin Project first…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine South Africa’s Absa Becomes First Bank on the Continent to Custody Bitcoin: Report South African bank Absa has become the first African lender to custody bitcoin, according to reports.  As reported first by Bloomberg on Friday, the Johannesburg-based lender will serve institutional clients, mostly by custodying bitcoin — but other digital assets will…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Surges Above $87,000 on Softer-Than-Expected Jobs Data The price of bitcoin surged above $87,000 on Friday morning in New York, buoyed by constant exchange-traded fund flows and a jobs report showing that unemployment in the U.S. had ticked up.  Bitcoin’s price recently stood at $85,990 after a 2% jump over a…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Impacts of Daily Dividends on Digital Credit Analyzing the implications for digital credit instruments paying daily dividends. This post Impacts of Daily Dividends on Digital Credit first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Allard Peng.Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Frank Holmes: They Will Print $100 Trillion – Why to Buy Bitcoin & Gold Bitcoin miners hold the power and infrastructure AI needs. HIVE’s Frank Holmes explains how mining sites and former Ethereum GPUs are fueling the AI boom. This post Frank Holmes: They Will Print $100 Trillion – Why to Buy Bitcoin…Read More