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Deals•Feb 18, 2026
Bitwise Acquires Chorus One's Institutional Staking Business and Partners with Morpho
Crypto asset manager Bitwise announced in February that it has acquired the institutional staking business of Chorus One, expanding its staking capabilities. Simultaneously, Bitwise entered a partnership with Morpho to launch curated yield vaults, blending DeFi infrastructure with institutional controls. The moves aim to bring certified yield products to traditional finance investors.
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Deals•Feb 14, 2026
Tether Invests $150M for 12% Stake in Gold.com, Launching Tokenized Gold Token XAU₮
Tether announced a strategic investment of $150 million to acquire a 12% stake in Gold.com, purchasing 3.371 million shares at $44.50 each. The deal includes integration of Tether’s gold-backed token XAU₮ into Gold.com’s platform, aiming to expand tokenized gold distribution...
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Deals•Dec 24, 2025
Metaplanet Secures $100M Bitcoin-Backed Loan and $500M Credit Line to Accelerate Bitcoin Treasury
Tokyo-listed Metaplanet announced it has secured a $100 million loan collateralized by its Bitcoin holdings and a $500 million credit line for share-buybacks, following an extraordinary general meeting on Dec. 22 that approved capital restructuring. The debt financing will enable...
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Deals•Dec 18, 2025
Google Backs Bitcoin Miners with $5 Billion Credit to Fuel AI Transition
Google has quietly committed roughly $5 billion of credit support to Bitcoin mining firms shifting toward AI workloads, backing leases with data‑center operator Fluidstack. The financing enables TeraWulf, Cipher Mining and Hut 8 Corp to secure long‑term AI hosting contracts, with Google...
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Deals•Nov 12, 2025
EV2 Token Presale Raises Over $145K in Early Funding Round
The EV2 gaming token presale, promoted in a sponsored CryptoSlate article, has already raised more than $145,000, selling 14 million EV2 tokens. The fundraising is positioned as an early-stage seed‑type round targeting gamers and crypto investors. The announcement comes amid steady...
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News•Nov 6, 2025
Bitcoin Is Getting Too Expensive to Mine Profitably: What Breaks First – Hashrate, UX, or Ideology?
Bitcoin miners are confronting razor‑thin margins as block subsidies shrink and transaction fees remain low, with the seven‑day network hashrate hovering around 1.12 zettahashes per second and forward hashprice futures trading near $43 per petahash per day. Energy costs for modern...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 6, 2025
Justin Sun Delivers Keynote at Chainlink’s SmartCon 2025 as TRON DAO Featured as Gold Sponsor
Justin Sun, founder of TRON, delivered the opening keynote at Chainlink’s SmartCon 2025 in New York, where TRON DAO served as a Gold Sponsor. The event featured a panel on tokenized equities, with TRON DAO’s Sam Elfarra emphasizing the chain’s...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 6, 2025
How Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Impacts New York’s Crypto Future
Zohran Mamdani, a 34‑year‑old Democrat, won the New York City mayoral race on Nov. 4, becoming the city’s youngest, first Muslim, first South Asian and first African‑born mayor. His victory, which attracted $430 million in bets on Polymarket, pits his consumer‑protection agenda...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 6, 2025
Inside Bitcoin’s 24 Hour Race to Survive a Global Internet Blackout
The article models a worst‑case scenario where global internet exchange hubs fail for 24 hours, partitioning Bitcoin’s network into three regional clusters (Americas, Asia‑Oceania, Europe‑Africa) with roughly 45‑35‑20 percent of total hash‑rate. Each partition continues mining independently, creating divergent chains that can...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 6, 2025
How This $100M Bitcoin-Backed Loan Could Rewrite the Corporate Treasury Playbook
Metaplanet, a Tokyo‑based public firm, tapped a $100 million Bitcoin‑collateralized credit facility on Oct. 31 to fund additional BTC purchases, its options‑premium business and a share‑repurchase program, after its market‑adjusted net‑asset‑value (mNAV) fell below parity. The move follows a broader slowdown in...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 5, 2025
Bitcoin Will Be Hacked in 2 Years… and Other Quantum Resistant Marketing Lies
A handful of sites such as the Quantum Doom Clock project a 2‑3‑year window for quantum computers to break the elliptic‑curve keys used by Bitcoin, but the article argues that these timelines are based on optimistic assumptions and serve as...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 5, 2025
Spot BTC ETFs Fail to Sure up Bitcoin Decline as Outflow Streak Hits $1.9B
Spot Bitcoin exchange‑traded funds recorded a $566.4 million net outflow on Nov. 4, extending a five‑day redemption streak to roughly $1.9 billion – the largest single‑day drain since Aug. 1. Fidelity’s FBTC led the exits with $356.6 million, followed by ARKB’s $128.1 million and Grayscale’s GBTC...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 4, 2025
5 Clear Signals that Will Prove if the Bitcoin Bull Run Is Still Alive
Bitcoin slipped below the $106,400 pivot as spot ETF redemptions surged, with BlackRock’s IBIT alone withdrawing $714.8 million over four days, turning a key source of daily demand into supply. The decline coincided with a cooled CME three‑month futures basis (4‑5%...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 4, 2025
VCs Pour $5.1B Into Crypto Firms While Bitcoin’s ‘Uptober’ Whiffed
October 2025 saw Bitcoin slip roughly 4% and break the long‑standing “Uptober” rally, yet venture capital poured $5.1 billion into crypto firms – the second‑strongest month since 2022. Three mega‑deals – Intercontinental Exchange’s up‑to‑$2 billion investment in Polymarket, Tempo’s $500 million Series A and...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 4, 2025
LayerEdge Brings Zero-Knowledge Verification to TRON Network with Bitcoin-Anchored Security
LayerEdge announced that its edgenOS platform will generate zero‑knowledge proofs of TRON block headers in real time and anchor the aggregated proofs to Bitcoin’s proof‑of‑work chain, creating an immutable verification layer for TRON’s high‑throughput network. The integration adds a verifiable,...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 4, 2025
Why Bitcoin ETFs Started to Bleed Out as Four-Day Outflows Hit $1.34B
Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net outflow of $1.34 billion over four trading days ending Nov. 3, driven primarily by a $186.5 million redemption from iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). Other major funds, such as Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, posted flat or modest inflows, highlighting...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 4, 2025
Bitcoin Miner to AI Landlord: Microsoft Signs $9.7B Deal with BTC Miner IREN
Microsoft has signed a five‑year, $9.7 billion cloud‑services contract with Texas‑based Bitcoin miner IREN, converting up to 200 MW of its Childress campus from Bitcoin ASIC mining to GPU hosting for AI workloads. The deal includes a $1.9 billion 20 % pre‑payment and a...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 4, 2025
Why Trump Believes ‘China Is Big Into Crypto’ Despite Ban
President Donald Trump told 60 Minutes that China is "big into crypto," a claim that appears at odds with Beijing’s 2021 ban on crypto trading and mining. The article clarifies that while the mainland ban remains fully enforced, China’s crypto...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 3, 2025
How 11 Audits Couldn’t Stop Balancer’s $128 Million Hack Redefining DeFi Risks
Balancer, once hailed as a stable DeFi cornerstone, suffered a massive exploit on Nov. 3 that drained over $128 million across Ethereum and multiple layer‑2 forks, slashing its total value locked by 46% to roughly $422 million. Security firms PeckShield and Phalcon traced...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 3, 2025
Why Did Bitcoin’s Largest Buyers Suddenly Stop Accumulating?
Institutional demand for Bitcoin has waned for the first time in seven months, with net buying falling below daily mined supply, according to Caprioe Investments. Corporate treasuries such as MicroStrategy have sharply reduced purchases as their NAV premium collapsed, and...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 3, 2025
How This Millionaire Crypto Hacker Continues to Freely Cash Out a Year Later
A year after the Radiant hack that stole roughly $50‑$58 million from its Arbitrum and BNB Chain lending pools, the same attacker has been quietly cashing out large ETH tranches via cross‑chain bridges and the Tornado Cash mixer. On Oct. 31 2025 the...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 3, 2025
France Wants to Tax Unrealized Crypto Holdings but Also Hoard 420,000 BTC
France’s National Assembly approved a first‑reading amendment to expand its wealth tax to include digital assets, imposing a flat 1% levy on net wealth over €2 million and taxing crypto holdings even when unrealized. Simultaneously, the right‑wing UDR introduced a bill...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 3, 2025
How XRP Can Provide $5B+ Daily ‘Working Capital’ for Currency Exchanges
The piece outlines how XRP can serve as a short‑term working‑capital bridge for currency exchanges, using its minute‑scale settlement and CME‑listed XRP futures to hedge inventory risk. By sourcing fiat to XRP on deep CEX order books, atomizing trades, and...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 3, 2025
Bull or Bear? Today’s $106k Retest Could Decide Bitcoin’s Fate
Bitcoin has repeatedly treated the $106,400 level as a pivotal point in its current cycle, alternating between resistance and support. When the price clears the level it tends to expand into the next price channel, while breaks below prompt a...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 2, 2025
The Quantum Computing Threat Bitcoin Can’t Ignore Forever
A new report from the Human Rights Foundation warns that advances in quantum computing pose a credible, near‑term threat to Bitcoin’s cryptographic security. The analysis argues that quantum algorithms could eventually break the elliptic‑curve signatures that protect Bitcoin transactions, exposing...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 2, 2025
Can Blockchain Tame AI’s IP Problem?
Large language models are increasingly trained on copyrighted material, raising concerns that creators are not compensated for the data they provide. Camp Network, a purpose‑built layer‑1 blockchain, proposes a proof‑of‑provenance protocol that lets creators register their works as NFTs with...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 2, 2025
From Wild West to Wall Street: Crypto Is Boring Now because ‘We Won’
Nic Carter observes that the once‑raucous, speculative frenzy of crypto – epitomized by “God candles,” 20% Bitcoin spikes and the wild‑west vibe of Crypto Twitter – has given way to a quieter, more institutionalized market. He argues that the sector...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 2, 2025
When the Wrench Comes for the Wallet: Why Bitcoin’s Biggest Believers Are Handing over Their Keys
Physical "wrench" attacks on Bitcoin holders have surged, with over 200 documented incidents across 34 countries and 52 cases reported in 2025 alone—a 169% rise since February. The growing threat has prompted prominent early adopters, including analysts Willy Woo and...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 2, 2025
In Crypto’s Casino, Bitcoin Stands Alone as the Ultimate Prize
The article paints the cryptocurrency market as a casino where most tokens and projects end in disappointment, citing recent meme‑coin busts, failed token launches and waning retail interest. Despite the chaos, Bitcoin is portrayed as the sole enduring asset, attracting...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 1, 2025
Billions Stolen, Dozens Arrested: Is Crypto Crime Peaking or Adapting?
North Korea‑linked hackers stole more than $2 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, highlighted by a $1.5 billion breach of Bybit that leveraged supply‑chain‑tainted trading apps to access hot‑wallets. A coordinated Interpol operation recovered $439 million and led to hundreds of arrests across 40...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 1, 2025
SEC Just Gave Crypto Lawyers a New Way to Win in Court
The SEC issued an exemptive order on Oct. 31 delaying compliance deadlines for Regulation NMS rules until February and November 2026, citing regulatory uncertainty and a funding lapse. The order, aimed at traditional equity exchanges, creates a precedent that crypto...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 1, 2025
How the Ethereum vs Solana War Ended Quietly Not with a Bang but a Whimper
The long‑running rivalry between Ethereum and Solana has faded as the two layer‑1 protocols pursued fundamentally different architectures in 2025. Ethereum abandoned the monolithic‑chain race years ago, repositioning its base layer as a settlement infrastructure for modular rollups that prioritize...
By CryptoSlate
News•Nov 1, 2025
When the CEO Reads the Script: Did Coinbase Brian Armstrong Manipulate a Market?
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong closed the company’s Q3 earnings call on Oct. 30 by admitting he was watching prediction‑market bets on what the call would contain and then deliberately uttered the words “Bitcoin, Ethereum, blockchain, staking, and Web3.” The remark...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 31, 2025
Does Bitcoin Power Law Model Still Work in 2025 After S2F Failed?
The live Bitcoin power‑law channel, built on a log‑log regression of price versus days since genesis, places spot BTC around $109,700—about 20% below its fair‑value estimate of $136,100 and well above the model’s floor near $48,300. Recent ETF activity, including...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 31, 2025
The First AI Launchpad on Sui: Empowering Retail Investors to Invest Like VCs
Surge, the first AI launchpad on the Move‑based Sui blockchain, aims to give retail investors VC‑style access to AI agent projects by redesigning token launches. The platform locks 90% of insider tokens until specific Fully Diluted Valuation or technical milestones...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 31, 2025
Invisible Lightning: Why Exchange Channels Break a Favorite Bitcoin Metric
The Bitcoin Lightning Network’s public capacity has slipped to about 4,132 BTC, with nodes falling 6.8% and channels down 2.5% day‑over‑day, but the decline reflects a shift toward private, custodial and exchange‑controlled routes rather than a loss of utility. Major exchanges...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 31, 2025
New Prison Report Flouts Claim FTX Could Have Repaid Customers From $25B in Assets
In a 15‑page report drafted from prison, Sam Bankman‑Fried argues that FTX was never insolvent, claiming the exchange and Alameda held roughly $25 billion in assets and $16 billion in equity against about $13 billion in liabilities, enough to repay customers in full...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 31, 2025
70M Daily Transactions, $143B Volume: How Solana Won DeFi’s Throughput Race
Solana is handling roughly 70 million transactions per day and generated about $143 billion in monthly DEX volume as of Oct. 30, surpassing Ethereum’s $138 billion despite processing far fewer base‑layer transactions. The network’s throughput of ~1,100 TPS is supported by 1,295 validators in 40...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 31, 2025
Can Asia’s Mid-Caps Absorb 30% of New BTC Supply?
Asia’s mid‑cap companies are emerging as a new source of demand for Bitcoin, with Japan’s Metaplanet now holding more than 30,000 BTC and Korea’s Bitplanet launching a supervised, rules‑based accumulation program. These moves follow earlier corporate treasury experiments by firms...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 31, 2025
If Web3 Is Decentralized, Why Do DeFi dApps Still Break when the Cloud Goes Down?
On Oct. 20 a failure in Amazon’s US‑EAST‑1 region cascaded through the crypto ecosystem, causing degraded service at Coinbase, timeouts at Infura and Alchemy, and stalls in several roll‑up sequencers. The outage did not affect blockchain consensus but exposed the heavy...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 31, 2025
Are Bitcoin Miners Becoming AI Utilities? The Math Says Yes
The April 2024 Bitcoin halving cut block rewards from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC, slashing the hash‑price and squeezing miner margins. In response, leading mining firms are repurposing excess hash power and data‑center capacity for artificial‑intelligence workloads, signing long‑term power‑lease contracts...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 31, 2025
Here Is Why Bitcoin Registered Its First Red October in 7 Years
October has historically been Bitcoin’s strongest month, delivering average gains of about 22.5% thanks to post‑summer liquidity, year‑end portfolio rebalancing and robust demand from U.S. investment products. In 2024, however, Bitcoin posted a loss, marking its first red October in...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 31, 2025
Gold vs Ondo vs ConstructKoin: Which RWAs Will Dominate 2025 and Beyond?
The article examines three leading real‑world asset (RWA) tokenization platforms—gold‑backed tokens, Ondo Finance and ConstructKoin—to forecast which will dominate the market by 2025. It notes that the RWA sector has more than doubled, expanding from $15.7 billion in January to $35.5 billion...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 30, 2025
Do ETFs Risk Centralizing Solana, and Who Actually Gets the Yield?
Solana’s ecosystem has long relied on a robust staking culture, with more than two‑thirds of its circulating supply delegated to validators and generating roughly a 6% annual return from inflation and transaction fees. New exchange‑traded funds (ETFs) that hold Solana...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 30, 2025
Will Fusaka Keep Users on L2? Upcoming Ethereum Upgrade Eyes up to 60% Fee Cuts
The next Ethereum upgrade, dubbed Fusaka—a blend of the consensus‑layer "Fulu" and execution‑layer "Osaka"—will revamp how the network processes data and calculates fees, targeting fee reductions of up to 60 percent while leaving the user‑facing experience unchanged. By shifting data...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 30, 2025
Whales Awaken as Old SOL Hits Exchanges but $117M ETF Inflows Soak up Supply
Early Solana investors are now moving long‑held SOL onto exchanges, a pattern that typically signals selling pressure, but the impact is being offset by a surge of regulated inflows into Solana‑linked ETFs. Over the past month, Arkham Intelligence flagged a...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 30, 2025
Why $13B in Bitcoin Options Expiring This Week Is a Price Nothing Burger
A $13 billion notional of Bitcoin options are set to expire this week on Deribit, which clears roughly 90% of the market’s open interest. Analysts say such expirations recur regularly and are largely priced in, limiting any immediate effect on Bitcoin’s...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 30, 2025
Fed Cancels December Rate Cut, 18% Chance of Hike, Slowing Bitcoin Rally
The Federal Reserve lowered its policy rate by 25 basis points to a target range of 3.75%‑4.00%, but futures markets have now erased expectations of an additional cut in December, leaving an 18% probability of a rate hike instead. The...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 30, 2025
The $308 Billion Question: Can Stablecoins Thrive Amid China Ban?
China’s central bank reaffirmed its ban on stablecoins, with PBoC governor Pan Gongsheng warning that they pose a "new source of vulnerabilities" to the global financial system. He cautioned that stablecoins could erode monetary sovereignty in smaller economies and facilitate...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 30, 2025
MetaMask Advances Towards a Unified Crypto Wallet with Solana and Bitcoin
MetaMask, the dominant Ethereum browser extension with roughly 30 million monthly active users, has rolled out native support for the Solana blockchain, allowing users to manage SOL and associated tokens directly within the wallet. The upgrade marks the first major cross‑chain...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 29, 2025
Fed Cuts 25 Bps, but There Is Another Hidden Macro Challenge Looming
The Federal Reserve lowered its policy rate by 25 basis points and signaled that the balance‑sheet runoff – the gradual reduction of its holdings – may soon conclude. With the overnight reverse‑repo facility now down to roughly $14 billion, any further...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 29, 2025
Crypto Market Loses $100 Billion in Market Cap While S&P Hits New Highs
Bitcoin slipped more than 4% to around $111,000 on Wednesday, contributing to a $100 billion erosion in total crypto market capitalization as the S&P 500 posted new record highs ahead of the Federal Reserve’s policy decision. The sell‑off was driven largely by...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 29, 2025
Are Ethereum ETFs a Price Headwind?
US‑listed spot Ethereum ETFs recorded sustained outflows in late September and mid‑October, a period that coincided with a relative decline in the ETH/BTC price ratio. Meanwhile, non‑US ETFs attracted fresh capital and staking participation continued to rise, cushioning the price...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 29, 2025
Bitcoin Fork Zcash up 380% to $5.8B: Does Scarce Privacy Have Legs?
Zcash (ZEC), a long‑overlooked Bitcoin fork, surged 380% in market value to roughly $5.8 billion, marking the most dramatic crypto rally of 2025. The rally was fueled by renewed investor appetite for privacy‑focused assets as regulatory scrutiny tightens on transparent tokens...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 29, 2025
TRON DAO Participates in Europol’s 9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets
TRON DAO, the community‑governed organization behind the TRON blockchain, took part in Europol’s 9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets on Oct. 28‑29, 2025 at the UNODC headquarters in Vienna. The DAO’s delegation joined law‑enforcement officials, regulators and industry peers...
By CryptoSlate
Deals•Oct 28, 2025
Metaplanet Secures up to $500M BTC‑secured Credit Facility Alongside Share Buyback
Metaplanet announced on Oct. 28 that it authorized a share buyback and disclosed a Bitcoin‑secured credit facility of up to $500 million to support buybacks and liquidity. The facility is collateralized by BTC and was filed with the Tokyo Stock...
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Deals•Oct 22, 2025
FalconX Acquires Crypto ETP Issuer 21Shares to Add Prime Brokerage
FalconX acquired 21Shares on 2025-10-22 in a deal that integrates prime brokerage capabilities with one of the largest crypto ETP issuers managing over $11 billion. The acquisition is aimed at vertical integration of trading and investment management in the crypto...
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Deals•Oct 22, 2025
Moon Inc. Raises About $8.8M via New Shares and Convertible Notes to Roll Out Bitcoin Prepaid Card
Hong Kong-listed Moon Inc. (HKEX: 1723) raised roughly US$8.8 million (about HK$65.5 million) through a private placement of new shares and convertible notes to fund rollout of a Bitcoin prepaid card across Asia. The funds come from a private allotment;...
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Deals•Oct 21, 2025
Coinbase Acquires Echo for $375 Million to Revive Community Fundraising
Coinbase announced on 2025-10-21 that it acquired Echo, a community-fundraising platform founded by Jordan “Cobie” Fish, in a $375 million deal. The acquisition aims to rebuild on-chain capital markets and enable crypto projects to raise directly from users.
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Deals•Oct 10, 2025
Kalshi Raises $300M at $5B Valuation in Growth-Stage Funding
Kalshi secured a $300 million growth-stage funding round that values the CFTC-regulated event-contract exchange at $5 billion, supporting its global expansion into 140 countries and broadening market offerings. The raise positions Kalshi as the leading regulated prediction-market platform and intensifies...
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