United States Cryptocurrency

eToro agreed to acquire TradeZero as it expands its brokerage business in the United States.

• Grayscale linked Bitcoin’s long-term outlook to Federal Reserve interest-rate policy, arguing that lower rates could support demand for digital store-of-value assets. 
• The theme connects several major crypto assets through monetary policy, institutional investment flows and growing adoption of exchange-traded products. 
• Persistent inflation, regulatory uncertainty and the risk of higher-for-longer interest rates remain key challenges for the sector. 

Dr. Wolfgang Pinegger, owner and creator of the GloBra ecosystem, has published SHIFT!. The book describes his life as one of relentless reinvention, from shop floors to blockchains, and from a small Austrian village to travelling the world.

The book works as both memoir and guide to navigating change in business and in life.

• Kraken’s FIFA World Cup sponsorship coincides with prediction market trading volumes surpassing US$2 billion across football-related contracts. 
• Sports forecasting activity is being concentrated in blockchain-based and regulated event markets, led by Polymarket and Kalshi. 
• Regulatory uncertainty around prediction markets remains the key challenge as platforms expand into mainstream sporting events. 

Nine senior figures have quit the Ethereum Foundation this year, including co‑executive director Hsiao‑Wei Wang, even as ETH trades about 57% below its all‑time high and Solana closes the gap.

Humanity Protocol, a Worldcoin rival built to verify users are human, lost over US$30 million as attackers drained 17 wallets and its token crashed about 90% in hours.

A US$245 million bitcoin social‑engineering scam allegedly run by teenager Veer Chetal — who is accused of tricking a Washington man into handing over 4,100 BTC — led to a brutal kidnapping plot against his parents.

A plaintiff using the alias “Noah Doe” has filed a 901‑page lawsuit in New York Supreme Court seeking rights to around 3.7 million dormant bitcoin, worth roughly US$285 billion, spread across 39,069 wallets including some linked to Satoshi Nakamoto and the Mt. Gox hacker.

Elon Musk’s net worth briefly hit about US$1.4 trillion, momentarily exceeding bitcoin’s roughly US$1.31 trillion market value after SpaceX shares jumped 67% above their IPO price.

GloBra FZ-LLC has built a blockchain-based ecosystem designed to support online businesses of all kinds.

Its owner and inventor, Dr. Wolfgang Pinegger, has secured patents for the underlying technology in both the European Union and the United States - the two jurisdictions that matter most for a platform with global ambitions.

To understand what those patents actually protect, GLMall put the question to ChatGPT. The resulting assessment is worth reading in full, not least because it declines to overstate the case.

GloBra’s patent covering the Chain Code Technology and Parallel Token Solution used in GLBrain and GLMall has finally been approved by both the European and United States patent offices.

The grants are registered under European Patent EP 3 857 405 B1 and US Patent 12,430,644.

High-stakes talks between the United States and Iran in Islamabad ended without an agreement after 21 hours of negotiations, marking another setback in efforts to ease regional tensions.