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04/27/2026 02:30 PM Strive acquires 789 BTC, bumping ninth-largest corporate bitcoin treasury over 14,000 BTC
Strive also recently tightened its preferred stock's trading range while boosting its monthly dividend yield to 12.75%.
04/27/2026 02:19 PM BitMine’s ether holdings top 5.078 million after largest purchase since December
BitMine said its ether holdings climbed to 5.078 million tokens after another 101,901 ETH purchase last week.
04/27/2026 01:55 PM TD Cowen reiterates buy rating on Smarter Web Company, says it remains UK’s only scaled bitcoin treasury vehicle
TD Cowen said The Smarter Web Company has strengthened its position as the only UK-listed bitcoin treasury vehicle at scale.
04/27/2026 01:30 PM The Block appoints veteran media operator Steve Chung as CEO
Chung takes over from Larry Cermak, who remains President of The Block, overseeing research, data, and product.
04/27/2026 01:06 PM ‘The beat goes on’: Michael Saylor’s Strategy adds 3,273 bitcoin for $255 million as holdings reach 818,334 BTC
Strategy's holdings account for 3.9% of the total 21 million bitcoin supply — worth around $63.7 billion.
04/27/2026 12:02 PM ‘Better than bailouts?’: Curve founder proposes market-based bad debt recovery model for DeFi lending amid KelpDAO fallout
Curve founder Michael Egorov proposed a new way to recover bad debt in DeFi lending markets amid industry debates on the KelpDAO incident.
04/27/2026 10:35 AM French prosecutors charge 88 individuals linked to crypto wrench attacks
French authorities urged crypto holders to remain vigilant and avoid extensive exposure on social media that could make them targets.
04/27/2026 10:32 AM Bitcoin leads $1.2B weekly haul for global crypto funds as institutional demand builds: CoinShares
Improving institutional demand spurred by bitcoin's multi-week high pushed $1.2 billion in weekly flows to crypto funds.
04/27/2026 09:47 AM Luxor, MicroBT deepen ties with $100 million mining rig deal and planned investment
Luxor said it is committing $100 million to purchase MicroBT WhatsMiner rigs, while MicroBT has signed a term sheet to invest in Luxor.
04/27/2026 07:57 AM Upbit partner KBank to test onchain cross-border remittances with Ripple
KBank and Ripple have already completed the first phase of the PoC, in which they verified a wallet app-based remittance system.
04/27/2026 04:29 AM Western Union to launch stablecoin next month, with ‘Stable Card’ planned for global consumers
WU is also launching a network connecting digital wallets to its existing retail infrastructure, and a stablecoin card for payments.
04/27/2026 04:12 AM Bitcoin climbs above $79,000, Asian equities rise amid ‘subdued’ geopolitical tensions
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index rose to 47, returning to the 'Neutral' zone from around 12 in 'Extreme Fear' last month.
04/26/2026 11:40 PM Skilled Polymarket traders are a 3% minority, and everyone else funds their gains: study
A working paper analyzing every Polymarket trade between 2023 and 2025, finds that about 3% of accounts generate the bulk of price discovery.
04/26/2026 09:15 PM 22-year-old sentenced to 70 months for money laundering tied to $263 million crypto syndicate
The Lamborghini-laden money laundering operation was "built on greed so brazen it borders on the cartoonish," according to prosecutors.
04/25/2026 09:51 PM Litecoin rewrites three hours of history to undo its first major privacy-layer exploit
Attackers used the more than three-hour fork window to attempt double-spends against cross-chain swap protocols.
04/25/2026 06:42 PM CFTC sues New York over prediction market crackdown as 38 AGs back Massachusetts’ Kalshi case
The dueling actions mark the fourth state the CFTC has sued in three weeks and come three days after New York's AG sued Coinbase and Gemini.
04/25/2026 03:55 PM Aave, Kelp, LayerZero ask Arbitrum DAO to release $71 million in frozen ETH to rsETH recovery effort
The standard Constitutional AIP lifecycle runs roughly 49 days from forum publication to onchain execution, a timeline some delegates say is too long.
04/24/2026 10:12 PM JPMorgan says tokenization will drive change across entire funds industry, but ‘good use cases’ still years away
"Tokenization is that it will become part of the ETF ecosystem, but we’re a couple of years away from some good use cases,” said the bank.
04/24/2026 09:37 PM Brazil blocks Kalshi, Polymarket in sweeping ban citing investor protections
Finance Minister Dario Durigan said some 28 betting platforms were banned in the country amid rising concerns about online gambling.
04/24/2026 09:07 PM Aave proposes 25,000 ETH contribution to DeFi United to plug Kelp DAO exploit hole
Protocols and individual DeFi users have collectively pledged enough to cover the Kelp DAO exploit losses.
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