The Swiss crypto bank will handle strategic asset allocation for corporate crypto treasuries and is already actively managing $200 million in volume at launch. Global digital asset banking group Sygnum has announced the launch of an institutional crypto asset management service targeting the $100 billion corporate crypto treasury sector. Sygnum Select, launched on Thursday, is...Continue Reading

Stripe executives Patrick and John Collison expect blockchain network demands to increase significantly as adoption and use of AI agents grow in the future.  Financial technology firm Stripe says blockchains may need to process up to 1 billion transactions per second to support the future of artificial intelligence agents.  In an annual letter posted to...Continue Reading

“They’ve heard the promises of institutional adoption for so long that they no longer register,” said Bitwise’s Matt Hougan. Traditional investors don’t yet realize the impact crypto may have on financial markets, meaning there could be an opportunity to invest in what the technology could eventually become, says Bitwise investment chief Matt Hougan. “Everywhere I...Continue Reading

World Liberty Financial’s USD1 is the fifth-largest stablecoin by market capitalization at $4.7 billion, while USDT is the market leader, followed by USDC. Trump family-backed crypto venture World Liberty Financial (WLFI) has proposed new measures to boost participation in governance through a staking system and incentivize the use of its stablecoin USD1. In its latest...Continue Reading

Aave continues to lead DeFi lending, with $27.2 billion in user value secured and $83.3 million in fees over the past 30 days, nearly four times more than its closest competitor. Decentralized finance protocol Aave has surpassed $1 trillion in cumulative lending volume, marking a historic first in the DeFi industry. “A decade ago, DeFi...Continue Reading

“The goal is to decouple slots and finality, to allow us to reason about both separately,” explained Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has added to a newly released roadmap outlining how Ethereum plans to dramatically speed up the production of new blocks and the confirmation of transactions. Vitalik’s comments on Thursday offered...Continue Reading

ETHZilla will now go by Forum in its second rebrand in less than 12 months as it looks to catch a windfall from the hype around tokenization. ETHZilla shares climbed 13% on Wednesday after the company changed its name to Forum as part of plans to ditch its crypto treasury strategy and become a tokenization...Continue Reading

The Reform UK party was the first to accept crypto donations in May last year, with leader Nigel Farage announcing the group is accepting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency contributions. Matt Western, chair of the UK’s Joint Committee on National Security Strategy, has urged the government to put a temporary halt on crypto donations to political...Continue Reading

CFTC chair Mike Selig said the agency established a prediction markets advisory to help catch insider traders, warning there would be consequences. A former contender for governor of California has been banned from Kalshi after betting on his own candidacy last year in violation of insider trading rules, the prediction market platform said on Wednesday....Continue Reading

The AI and digital marketing company acquired its 7,500 Bitcoin in September 2025, amid a market-wide collapse in Bitcoin treasury company mNAVs. The board of directors for GD Culture Group (GDC), a publicly listed holding company focused on digital marketing and AI, on Wednesday authorized the company to sell Bitcoin (BTC) from its corporate treasury...Continue Reading