The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking part of its treasury, depositing 2,016 ETH and outlining plans to stake about 70,000 ETH in total as it becomes a direct participant in network consensus.
Binance has listed 10 tokenised equities, ETFs and commodities from Ondo Global Markets on its Binance Alpha platform, expanding its push into real-world assets with regulatory approval in Abu Dhabi.
United Kingdom-listed Bitcoin treasury firm The Smarter Web Company has secured a $30 million Bitcoin-backed credit facility from Coinbase Credit to accelerate Bitcoin purchases following equity raises.
Tether-backed crypto payments app Oobit has launched crypto-to-bank transfers, enabling users to send digital assets from self-custody wallets directly into bank accounts via local payment networks.
Blockchain analytics firm Nansen will establish a local entity in Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City, incorporating within the Special Administrative Region as it advances its digital asset strategy.
A 39-year-old South Korean man has been indicted for attempted murder after allegedly poisoning his business partner over losses tied to a Bitcoin investment programme, prosecutors in Seoul said.
Crypto.com has donated $35 million over the past year to the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc., with its latest $5 million contribution coming in January, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed an amicus brief backing Crypto.com in a Ninth Circuit appeal against Nevada regulators, arguing that sports-based prediction markets fall under exclusive federal jurisdiction rather than state gambling laws.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned a Russian exploit brokerage network for purchasing stolen U.S. government cyber tools with cryptocurrency and reselling them, marking the first action under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act.
Vitalik Buterin has sold more than 3,100 Ethereum tokens worth over $6.1 million in recent days, continuing a pattern of ETH disposals as the asset trades near multi-week lows.
Bitcoin slid to $63,822, extending weekly losses to 6.4% and marking a roughly 50% drawdown from its October high of $126,080 amid tariff-driven volatility and persistent ETF outflows.
Engie is evaluating the addition of battery storage systems or bitcoin mining data centres at its 895-megawatt Assu Sol solar plant in Brazil to mitigate curtailment losses and improve project economics, according to Reuters.
