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Bitcoin dropped below the key $70,000 level on Friday as geopolitical tensions and weak economic data from the United States triggered a sharp market sell-off.

Colombia is moving closer to formal regulation of the cryptocurrency sector as the Central Bank of Colombia completes a draft framework aimed at governing digital asset activities.

Publicly listed cryptocurrency mining companies have begun selling large portions of their bitcoin holdings as financial pressure across the sector continues to mount.

Exchange-traded funds tied to Solana have retained roughly $1.5 billion in inflows even as the token has dropped more than half since the products launched.

Fintech firm Revolut has filed a new application for a U.S. national bank charter as it renews its push into the North American market.

Quantum computing firm PsiQuantum has started construction on a facility designed to host a 1 million-qubit quantum computer, a scale scientists say could theoretically break Bitcoin’s cryptography.

Bitcoin-based decentralised finance platform Solv Protocol said one of its token vaults was exploited for about $2.7 million and offered the attacker a 10% bounty to return the stolen funds.

U.S. banking regulators said tokenised securities will receive the same capital treatment as traditional securities, emphasising that regulatory rules remain “technology neutral.”

U.S. Democratic lawmakers are drafting legislation to regulate prediction markets after suspicious bets were placed on the timing of U.S. strikes on Iran.

XRP funding rates on Binance have turned sharply negative, a market signal that has historically preceded short-term price rebounds in the token.

Elon Musk said X’s upcoming payments platform, X Money, is already running in a closed internal beta as part of his plan to transform the social network into an “everything app.”

Cardano’s ADA token can now be used for grocery purchases at 137 Spar supermarkets across Switzerland after a payment integration with Swiss fintech firm DFX.swiss.