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River Financial said Bitcoin adoption accelerated across institutions, banks, merchants and nation-states in 2025 despite the cryptocurrency trading about 50% below its all-time high.

Bitcoin Depot has begun requiring identification for every transaction at its crypto ATMs across the United States, tightening controls as regulators intensify scrutiny over scams and money laundering risks.

Stripe is reportedly exploring an acquisition of all or parts of rival PayPal, with Bloomberg citing sources familiar with early-stage discussions and cautioning that no deal is guaranteed.

Blockchain Association has submitted a set of crypto tax policy proposals to Congress, calling for a de minimis exemption on low-dollar digital asset transactions and for stablecoins to be treated as cash for everyday purchases.

Anthropic has alleged that three Chinese artificial intelligence firms generated more than 16 million exchanges with its Claude model through roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts in what it described as large-scale distillation attacks.

Bitwise Asset Management has acquired staking infrastructure provider Chorus One, which oversees more than $2.2 billion in staked assets, strengthening Bitwise’s onchain capabilities and potentially paving the way for additional staked exchange-traded products.

Payoneer has filed with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish PAYO Digital Bank, seeking a national trust banking charter that would allow it to issue a stablecoin and expand into crypto services.

TRM Labs and Finray Technologies have partnered to launch a unified monitoring system that tracks both crypto and fiat transactions within a single compliance workflow.

European Securities and Markets Authority has warned that crypto derivatives marketed as “perpetual futures” or “perpetual contracts” are likely to fall within the European Union’s contracts for differences framework, subjecting them to strict investor protection rules.

Coinbase has opened commission-free stock and exchange-traded fund trading to all US users, enabling customers to buy and sell roughly 6,000 equities alongside crypto within the same app on a 24/5 basis with instant funding in USD or USD Coin.

MoonPay has launched MoonPay Agents, a non-custodial infrastructure layer that enables artificial intelligence systems to create wallets, hold digital assets and execute onchain stablecoin transactions without human intervention.

Users of Polymarket have wagered more than $7 million on which crypto firm will be named in an upcoming investigation by onchain sleuth ZachXBT, with decentralised liquidity platform Meteora leading the odds at 29%.

Empery Digital is facing pressure from a 9.8% shareholder to liquidate its 4,081 Bitcoin holdings, return capital to investors and remove chief executive Ryan Lane along with the entire board.

Binance chief executive Richard Teng has threatened legal action against the Wall Street Journal over what he called “inaccurate reporting” that internal investigators uncovered $1.7 billion in digital assets flowing to Iranian-linked entities.

WisdomTree has secured regulatory approval to enable 24/7 trading and instant settlement for its WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund (WTGXX), marking the first registered tokenised mutual fund to operate around the clock under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Kraken has launched regulated tokenised equity perpetual futures for eligible non-US clients, offering 24/7 leveraged exposure of up to 20x to major US stock indices, gold and individual companies including Nvidia, Apple and Tesla.

Shrinking stablecoin supply and renewed tariff uncertainty are creating a liquidity squeeze that analysts say is weighing on Bitcoin and limiting a broader crypto market recovery.

The Hashgraph Group has launched a blockchain-based supply-chain traceability platform built on Hedera to help companies prepare for the European Union’s Digital Product Passport requirements taking effect from 2027.

Canaan has acquired a 49% stake in three operational Texas Bitcoin mining facilities for $39.75 million, expanding its US infrastructure footprint with 120 megawatts of power and 4.4 exahashes per second of hashrate.

A solo Bitcoin miner secured more than $200,000 after validating an entire Bitcoin block using roughly $75 of rented hashrate, highlighting a rare win for an individual operator.

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.