South Korean prosecutors said they recovered 320.88 Bitcoin, worth about $21.3 million, after the stolen funds were unexpectedly returned to an official wallet earlier this week, local media reported.
Deutsche Börse Group digital assets head Carlo Kölzer said tokenisation is a natural evolution of market infrastructure rather than a threat, positioning the group to integrate digital and traditional assets into a hybrid trading environment.
Voltage has introduced Voltage Credit, a USD-settled revolving credit line embedded directly into Bitcoin and Lightning payment flows, allowing businesses to send instant payments while repaying balances in US dollars or bitcoin.
Public Bitcoin miners are developing roughly 30 gigawatts of artificial intelligence-focused power capacity, nearly triple the 11 GW currently online, as they seek to offset post-halving margin pressure and reposition for the next growth cycle.
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds still hold about $53 billion in cumulative net inflows despite recent heavy redemptions, according to Eric Balchunas.
Ripple chief executive Brad Garlinghouse confirmed that the company’s chief legal officer attended a White House meeting between cryptocurrency and banking representatives to discuss a digital asset market structure bill under consideration in the US Senate.
ProShares has launched the ProShares GENIUS Money Market ETF, trading under ticker IQMM, designed to qualify as an eligible reserve asset under the GENIUS Act for potential use by stablecoin issuers.
A transaction-level study by KlariVis found that customers at 92 US community banks moved a net $78.3 million in deposits to Coinbase over 13 months, with $2.77 flowing out for every $1.00 returning across banks where direction could be determined.
Bitcoin-backed lender Ledn has sold about $188 million of bonds tied to Bitcoin-collateralised consumer loans in what Bloomberg described as the first securitisation of its kind in the mainstream asset-backed securities market.
Crypto executives at Cointelegraph’s LONGITUDE conference in Hong Kong warned that Bitcoin’s quantum computing risk must be addressed while calling for clearer US regulation to unlock the industry’s next growth phase.
US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $133.3 million in net outflows on Wednesday, pushing weekly losses to $238 million as Bitcoin briefly fell below $66,000 amid persistent negative sentiment.
The Trump family’s crypto venture gathered leading Wall Street executives, regulators and digital asset figures at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday for its inaugural World Liberty Forum.
