The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced the launch of the Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit (CETU) on Thursday, a division focused on addressing cyber-related misconduct and strengthening protections for retail investors in the evolving technology sector. The…
Updated Feb 20, 2025, 6:09 a.m. UTCPublished Feb 19, 2025, 12:00 p.m. UTC HONG KONG – Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform MANTRA said it secured a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). The license allows the…
Priority Blockspace for Humans (PBH) has launched on the World Chain Sepolia testnet as part of the mission to build and implement open-source infrastructure that prioritizes humans over bots. PBH works to prioritize human transactions and order them correctly while…
Feb 20, 2025, 1:24 p.m. UTC Strategy (MSTR) Thursday morning announced the pricing on $2 billion of 0% convertible five-year senior notes. The deal is expected to close on Friday. The initial conversion rate is 2.3072 shares of MSTR for $1,000…
BTC broke through the $97,500 barrier earlier today amid sustained interest from institutional investors such as Strategy and Metaplanet, despite lower trading volume. Bitcoin (BTC) continues its cautious upward climb, reaching $97,414.42 at the time of reporting. This marks a…
Assetera, a European trading facility for blockchain-based securities, announced the collaboration with institutional-grade asset manager Ondo Finance to list the latter’s institutional-grade tokenized US Treasuries fund on Assetera’s Polygon-based platform. The press release shared with Cryptonews said that this listing…
XRP trades at $2.69 on Feb. 20, 2025, as bullish momentum contends with critical resistance levels amid mixed technical signals. The 1-hour chart shows XRP stabilizing between $2.65 and $2.75, forming higher lows within a tentative ascending trend. Immediate resistance…
The Blockchain Association, alongside 75 member companies, has called on Congress to repeal the Internal Revenue Service’s new rule that classifies DeFi software as brokers. In a Wednesday letter to lawmakers, the industry coalition urged support for Senator Ted Cruz’s…
Feb 20, 2025, 8:58 a.m. UTC The LIBRA memecoin scandal that rocked Argentina over the weekend destroyed millions of dollars in investor wealth, according to research by Nansen. On-chain data tracked by Nansen show 86% of traders lost a total of…
Updated Feb 20, 2025, 8:55 a.m. UTCPublished Feb 16, 2025, 2:31 p.m. UTC Argentina’s President Javier Milei is facing impeachment threats after endorsing a cryptocurrency called LIBRA, purportedly intended to support small businesses, which instead crashed and lost billions of dollars in…