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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•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...
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News•Oct 29, 2025
Is the EU Bitcoin Race Starting? France Targets 420k BTC as Germany Weighs Reserves
European powers France and Germany are moving toward creating sovereign Bitcoin holdings, with France proposing a target of 420,000 BTC and Germany studying the feasibility of a national reserve. The French plan would lock in roughly $10 billion worth of the...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 29, 2025
$500M BTC Credit: Is Metaplanet Proving Crypto Treasuries Are Momentum Trades?
Metaplanet announced a share‑buyback program that includes a Bitcoin‑secured credit facility of up to $500 million, disclosed in a Tokyo Stock Exchange filing that caps buybacks at ¥75 billion. The facility is designed to be most effective when Metaplanet’s stock trades below...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 28, 2025
NFTs Are Coming Back but Blue Chip Projects Are on Life Support
NFT trading activity rebounded in Q3 2025, ending a two‑year slump that saw volumes and prices slide across the sector. The revival was led not by high‑profile blue‑chip collectibles or speculative art, but by lower‑cost utility NFTs such as loyalty‑program...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 28, 2025
Watch These 4 Tripwires to Signal XRP Price Direction This Week
XRP entered the final week of October with rebuilt leverage and a working beta to Bitcoin that can be applied to near‑term ranges after a tariff shock. Aggregate open interest sits near $4.4 billion and funding rates have normalized to neutral‑to‑slightly‑positive,...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 28, 2025
US Spot Bitcoin ETF Balances Are Negative without BlackRock
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have drawn roughly $26.9 billion in net inflows this year, but the surge is heavily concentrated in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). After IBIT’s inflows slowed in late October, the remaining seven ETFs collectively posted net outflows,...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 28, 2025
Does a Weaker Dollar Drive Bitcoin Price Now?
Bitcoin surged past $116,000, its highest level in two weeks, reigniting the common claim that it serves as an inflation hedge. However, analysts argue the rally reflects tighter dollar liquidity and lower discount rates rather than a direct hedge against...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 28, 2025
US Solana Staking ETFs Begin Trading Today: What It Changes for Altcoins
Four altcoin exchange‑traded funds launched on October 28, marking the first wave of U.S. spot crypto ETFs that do not track Bitcoin or Ethereum. The lineup includes the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF, which received listing notices from both NYSE and Nasdaq,...
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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News•Oct 27, 2025
Landmark Ruling in India Treats XRP as Property, Not Speculation
A Madras High Court judge ruled that cryptocurrency, specifically XRP, is classified as property under Indian law and barred the exchange WazirX from reallocating a customer’s XRP holdings. The decision, issued by Justice N. Anand Venkatesh, arose from a dispute...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 27, 2025
Crypto’s Week Ahead: Everything You Need to Know to Close Out October
Bitcoin is trading near $115,000 as the Federal Reserve convenes for its October meeting, with the pivotal policy decision slated for Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 2 p.m. ET followed by Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference. Market participants are pricing in a...
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News•Oct 27, 2025
Mt. Gox Delayed to 2026: Does 34k BTC Even Move Bitcoin Price Anymore?
Mt. Gox secured court approval to move its final repayment deadline from this Friday to Oct. 31, 2026, extending the schedule by a year. The postponement removes the immediate prospect of releasing roughly 34,000 BTC into the market, averting a potential short‑term price...
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News•Oct 27, 2025
How Bitcoin Sets up to Undergo Another Major Fork in 2026
A new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal, BIP-444, seeks to reverse a recent OP_RETURN upgrade that permitted users to embed text, images and digital signatures in transactions, setting the stage for a potential chain split in 2026. Backers argue the rollback is...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 27, 2025
Bitcoin Rally Smashes Past $116k on Softer Fed Bets: What Changes Next?
Bitcoin surged past an intraday high of $116,000 and was trading around $115,587 after markets opened, marking its strongest levels in weeks as macro conditions shifted. The rally was driven by softer Federal Reserve rate-hike expectations and a broader risk-on...
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News•Oct 27, 2025
Nevada Shuts Down Fortress Trust: Who Holds Your Keys During Custody Consolidation?
Nevada regulators abruptly shuttered digital-asset custodian Fortress Trust on Oct. 22, citing insolvency after the firm held roughly $200,000 in cash against about $8 million in fiat liabilities and $4 million in crypto obligations. The cease-and-desist marks the second major...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 27, 2025
The Worst Bull Run Ever? How Institutions, Memes, and Macro Turned Crypto’s Glory Cycle Into a Grind
Despite new Bitcoin highs, this crypto cycle has felt muted: rallies are tepid, corrections severe, altcoins have plunged as much as 90%, and retail participation has evaporated. Institutional flows, meme-driven tokens and macroeconomic headwinds have reshaped the market from frothy...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 27, 2025
Bitplanet Starts Daily Bitcoin Accumulation with 93 BTC Purchase, Targets 10k BTC Treasury
Seoul-based Bitplanet Inc. bought 93 BTC and launched a daily Bitcoin accumulation program, saying the purchase was executed through fully regulated, compliant infrastructure. The company said the move makes it a first mover among Korean public companies adopting Bitcoin for...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 26, 2025
Bitcoin Retraces Nearly Half Its Losses From October Crash Amid Fed Rate-Cut Expectations
Bitcoin rallied past the $112,000 resistance over the weekend, trading around $113,724 and breaching the $113,000 level for the second time this week as it retraced nearly half of the losses from October’s crash. The move—which saw a comparable print...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 26, 2025
Decentralized Exchanges Surpass $1 Trillion Monthly Volume as Volatility Spikes
Perpetual decentralized exchanges recorded $1.049 trillion in monthly volume as of Oct. 24, with DefiLlama reporting roughly $1.241 trillion in 30-day volume — the first time on-chain derivatives have topped the $1 trillion mark. The surge, driven by elevated market...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 26, 2025
Jeff Booth Wants You to Move More of Your Time Into Bitcoin
Entrepreneur and author Jeff Booth urged individuals to shift more of their time and attention into Bitcoin, arguing that the combination of rapid technological advancement and mounting global debt makes traditional monetary frameworks increasingly fragile. Booth, known for warning about...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 26, 2025
Iranian Bank Crisis Underscores Bitcoin’s Role as Financial Hedge
Iran’s Central Bank declared Ayandeh Bank—one of the country’s largest private lenders—bankrupt and moved to absorb its assets after the lender accumulated roughly $5.2 billion in losses and nearly $3 billion in debt. The collapse has accelerated Iranian depositors’ turn...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 26, 2025
How JPMorgan’s Bitcoin Collateral Plan Could Unlock $20 Billion in Liquidity
JPMorgan is preparing to allow institutional clients to pledge Bitcoin and Ethereum as collateral for cash loans, a marked shift toward integrating major cryptocurrencies into mainstream banking. The move could unlock roughly $20 billion of liquidity by tapping client crypto...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 26, 2025
Crypto Under Pressure: What the U.S. Shutdown Tells Us About Market Resilience
The U.S. federal government shutdown that began Oct. 1, 2025 forced the SEC into contingency staffing and left nearly 100 crypto ETF decisions in limbo while key economic-data releases from the BLS and Census were delayed. The bottleneck has stalled...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 25, 2025
Bitcoin Options Market Cautious as Traders Hedge Against Volatility
Traders in the Bitcoin options market are showing caution, increasingly buying downside protection and hedges even as BTC recovers from an early-October rout that wiped out tens of billions in leveraged bets. Options metrics — including a bias toward puts,...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 25, 2025
Bitcoin Is Trading at a 30% Discount Relative to Nasdaq Fair Value
Bitcoin is trading about 30% below a Nasdaq 100‑implied “fair value,” according to ecoinometrics data, marking a pronounced discount versus the tech-stock benchmark. That gap underscores a sharp relative decline in BTC prices and, historically, such divergences have signaled deep...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 25, 2025
HMRC Tightens the Net: UK Crypto Investors Face Crackdown on Unreported Gains
HMRC is ramping up enforcement on UK cryptocurrency investors, signaling a crackdown on unreported gains as the tax authority closes loopholes and tightens reporting expectations. The move includes stricter compliance checks, greater data-sharing and likely penalties for undeclared crypto income,...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 25, 2025
The 5 Unbelievable Crypto Comeback Stories that Changed the World Forever
CryptoSlate highlights five dramatic comeback stories that reshaped the crypto industry, profiling assets, platforms and protocols that were written off—then revived by legal rulings, code updates, and market momentum. The piece traces recoveries from bankrupt exchanges and imploded tokens to...
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News•Oct 24, 2025
Inflation to Set up Bitcoin Melt-Up as Rates to Fall to 2.75% by Next October
US headline and core CPI both printed 3.0% year‑over‑year in September, with gasoline the main monthly driver, and markets still price a 25‑bp Fed cut next week and a glide of policy to roughly 3.0% by October 2026. Futures and...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 24, 2025
How XRP’s Renewed Role Is Driving Crypto-Fiat Settlement and Innovation Worldwide
After years in the shadows of Bitcoin and Ethereum, XRP and the XRP Ledger are re-emerging as practical infrastructure for crypto-fiat settlement, with proponents saying the protocol’s low-cost, fast transactions and expanding on‑ and off‑ramps are driving real-world payment use...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 24, 2025
How Retail Altcoin Traders Lost $800 Billion Betting Against Bitcoin
Retail crypto traders who positioned for an “altcoin season” instead of Bitcoin missed roughly $800 billion in potential gains, according to a 10x Research report showing altcoins materially underperformed Bitcoin this cycle. The $800 billion figure captures the scale of...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 24, 2025
What Trezor’s New “Quantum-Ready” Hardware Wallet Really Means for Bitcoin
Trezor unveiled the Safe 7 hardware wallet, setting a Nov. 23, 2025 ship date and marketing the device as “quantum-ready.” The designation refers specifically to the wallet’s ability to support post-quantum cryptography for firmware verification and device attestation once those...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 24, 2025
Is Solana Ready for Institutions? $700M Real World Assets and No Downtime
Solana is pitching itself as institution-ready after attracting roughly $700 million in real-world assets, onboarding blue-chip issuers natively on its rails, and showing no downtime during the Oct. 20 AWS outage. Validator infrastructure is shifting toward bare-metal setups and more...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 23, 2025
Adrian Wall of Digital Sovereignty Alliance Advocates Digital Sovereignty and Financial Inclusion at UN General Assembly
Adrian Wall, executive of the nonprofit Digital Sovereignty Alliance, spoke at the UN General Assembly roundtable “A New Blueprint for Sovereign Sustainable Development” in New York on Oct. 23, 2025, advocating digital sovereignty and financial inclusion. Wall emphasized ethical public-policy...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 23, 2025
TRON DAO Expands Global University Network with New Collaborations at Columbia and Harvard Blockchain Clubs
TRON DAO announced new collaborations with blockchain clubs at Columbia and Harvard, expanding its global university network of academic partnerships aimed at promoting blockchain education and dApp development. The move extends existing ties with other world-class institutions and is designed...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 23, 2025
Who Sets the Price Now? The $11B ETF Design that Could Change BTC Trading
FalconX’s announced acquisition of 21Shares on Oct. 22 will combine prime-brokerage infrastructure with one of the largest crypto ETP issuers, which manages more than $11 billion across dozens of exchange-traded products. The vertical integration creates a single firm that can...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 23, 2025
$538M Stolen by Drainers: ETH & SOL Wallets Unite with Real-Time Phishing Blocks
Nonprofit SEAL on Oct. 22 launched a real-time phishing defense network with MetaMask, WalletConnect, Backpack and Phantom that uses Verifiable Phishing Reports to let users submit cryptographically attested evidence of malicious sites, bypassing manual review delays. The coalition, which has...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 22, 2025
Did Vitalik Just Pick a Side? Inside Ethereum’s Layer-2 Loyalty Test
A $654 million ETH transfer by the Ethereum Foundation this week set off a governance storm, prompting scrutiny of developer pay and transparency and culminating in the public resignation of core developer Péter Szilágyi. The turmoil has intensified criticism of...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 22, 2025
$8.3B Real World Assets Now On-Chain: Can Tokenization Make Banks Top Crypto Custodians?
Wall Street banks are quietly rebuilding crypto infrastructure through tokenization and custody, with $8.3 billion of real-world assets now represented on-chain. Major institutions are layering fund administration, cash management and settlement onto blockchain rails—examples include BNY Mellon’s LiquidityDirect—shifting the focus...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 22, 2025
Buy BTC Like Phone Credit: Can Bitcoin Prepaid Cards Win Asia’s Cash Economy?
Hong Kong-listed Moon Inc. (HKEX: 1723) has raised about US$8.8 million through new-share allotments and convertible notes — including roughly HK$65.5 million via a private placement — to fund the rollout of a Bitcoin prepaid card across Asia. The move...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 22, 2025
Why Did MetaMask Show $0 on Ethereum when AWS Went Offline?
An Amazon Web Services outage in the US-EAST-1 region on Oct. 20 — beginning about 03:11 ET and involving DNS and EC2 load-balancer health-monitoring failures — temporarily caused MetaMask and other Ethereum wallet interfaces to display $0 balances and slowed...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 22, 2025
Bitcoin Vs. Gold: Does October’s Near Zero Correlation Shatter ‘Digital Gold’ Myth?
In October Bitcoin and gold diverged sharply, producing a near-zero correlation that challenges the narrative of Bitcoin as ‘digital gold.’ Over the month gold rose about 10% while Bitcoin fell roughly 6%, signaling the two assets behaved like different markets...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 22, 2025
$740M Wiped Out: Did Bitcoin Just Clear the Leverage Overhang?
Bitcoin’s volatile session on Oct. 21 triggered roughly $740 million in derivatives liquidations as the price surged from $110,552 to $114,019 before sliding back toward $108,000, executing a short-squeeze then a cascade of long liquidations. Coinglass data showed about $435.6...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 22, 2025
How the U.S. Bailout Could Bring the End to Argentina’s ‘Libertarian Utopia’
Argentina’s financial crisis — marked by a plunging peso and emergency talks in Washington — has forced President Javier Milei to seek a high-profile U.S. rescue that risks upending his radical libertarian agenda. The negotiations center on a bailout package...
By CryptoSlate
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 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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News•Oct 21, 2025
Bitcoin Now Pays Interest: How to Earn Money on Your BTC While Pumping the Price
Bitcoin is evolving from a pure store-of-value into a yield-bearing asset as holders increasingly lock coins into time‑based contracts and Babylon’s self‑custodial staking, which currently reports roughly 56,900 BTC staked. Those timelocks—native UTXO CLTV/CSV scripts—remove measurable free float (base estimates...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 21, 2025
Bitcoin Bounces Back After Weekend Slump Defying Expectations
Bitcoin rebounded sharply after a weekend slide, climbing from $106,189 on Sunday to $113,650 by Tuesday night—a roughly 7% rally in under 48 hours as buyers returned. The bounce followed a liquidation reset that erased nearly $20 billion in over‑leveraged...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 21, 2025
US Bitcoin Payments Are Getting Real: Retail Rails Could Push $2M a Day On-Chain
Retail payment apps and merchant rails are poised to turn routine checkout flows into meaningful crypto demand if platforms enable external transfers: Walmart’s OnePay, via a Zero Hash integration, can support trading, custody and on‑chain deposits/withdrawals, and if toggled on...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 21, 2025
Bitcoin Awaits Critical US CPI Data for Jump over $120,000 or Decline to $100,000
Bitcoin traders are bracing for the Sept. U.S. Consumer Price Index on Oct. 24 — the first major CPI print since the federal government shutdown and the first Friday CPI release since January 2018 — which analysts say could trigger...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 21, 2025
BlackRock’s $40B IBIT Options: Is Bitcoin’s Volatility Now the Market’s Favorite Income Play?
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) — now roughly a $40 billion vehicle — is driving a shift in crypto markets as options activity eclipses perpetual futures, with realized volatility narrowing and traders treating IBIT like an income-generating bond desk. The...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 21, 2025
The XRP Era: $1B Nasdaq Listing and 1,000% Liquidity Surge Mark a Sensational Comeback
XRP is staging a dramatic comeback as Ripple secures a $1 billion Nasdaq listing and trading liquidity has surged roughly 1,000%, reversing years of stagnation tied to its SEC legal battle. The resurgence follows partial legal clarity and relisting on...
By CryptoSlate
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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