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BNB Chain’s Fermi upgrade is set to deliver faster block times and near one-second transaction finality.

21Shares has brought its Bitcoin and gold-backed BOLD fund to the London Stock Exchange.

JPMorgan has cautioned that interest-paying stablecoins could undermine the regulated banking system.

Strive’s stock slid after unveiling a Semler acquisition that significantly increases its Bitcoin treasury.

Former New York City mayor Eric Adams unveiled a new memecoin project called NYC Token during a press conference in Times Square shortly after leaving office on 1 January.

Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) moved towards the $92,000 level at the Wall Street open after US inflation data came in slightly below expectations, lifting broader risk sentiment.

Polygon Labs announced the acquisition of Coinme and Sequence in a combined deal valued at $250 million, marking a strategic shift towards becoming a regulated payments-focused company.

YZi Labs, the family office of Binance co-founders Changpeng “CZ” Zhao and Yi He, has made a multi-eight-figure investment in decentralised trading platform Genius Trading.

Crypto liquidity stopped spreading across the market in 2025 and instead clustered around bitcoin and ether, according to a new over-the-counter trading report from Wintermute.

Payments terminal provider Ingenico has partnered with WalletConnect Pay to enable in-store stablecoin payments across its point-of-sale systems.

Franklin Templeton has updated two long-standing institutional money market funds to support stablecoin reserves and onchain cash activity without creating new crypto-native products.

Bitwise has pushed back against criticism of Bitcoin in US retirement plans as regulators face renewed scrutiny.