- Tether hires Big Four auditor for first full reserves audit - Bernstein says bitcoin looks bottomed, sees 226% upside for Strategy - Longevity pharma and RAIN treasury Enlivex secures $21 million debt financing - TD Cowen says prediction market bills unlikely to pass this year, flags 2028 election as 'real threat' - Silo V3 launches new liquidation mechanism opening door to new forms of crypto collateral - CFTC forms new innovation task force to shape crypto, artificial intelligence and prediction markets - Hut 8 leans into modular ‘LEGO block’ model to switch between AI and bitcoin mining - Ledger discloses $50 million Q4 secondary sale as IPO plans remain open - Circle falls 20% as stablecoin reward limits loom, Tether adds Big Four auditor and wallets frozen - Ethereum block builder Eureka Labs raises $6.7 million, introduces 'programmable blocks' - The Daily: Balancer Labs to wind down, Bernstein calls bitcoin bottom with $150K target for 2026, and more - Lido revenue dropped 23% last year as users withdrew funds and yields declined - Robinhood authorizes $1.5 billion buyback as shares rise nearly 80% in past year - Ark Invest buys $16 million in Circle as stock tumbles 20% on negative catalysts - Hyperliquid Strategies launches options trading on PURR common stock - Tom Lee's Bitmine adds $145 million worth of ETH in latest buy: onchain analysts - Bhutan offloads $37 million worth of bitcoin as selling accelerates: onchain data - Irish drug dealer's lost 500 BTC reawakens after 10 years, likely moved by police - Australia's central bank says stablecoins, bank deposit tokens can coexist in $17 billion tokenization drive - South Korea sees $60 billion crypto outflows to overseas platforms and private wallets in H2 2025 - Bitcoin Depot reshuffles leadership, projects 30% revenue drop in 2026 - Ripple joins Singapore central bank initiative to test RLUSD trade settlements - Aave Labs targets billions in idle liquidity with V4 reinvestment module to lift yield for lenders - Kraken first to roll out access to STS Digital's new crypto option structured products - Circle selloff may miss the mark as Clarity Act targets distributors, not issuers: Bernstein - Bitget Wallet debuts stablecoin payments infrastructure integrating with Ripple, Mastercard, Tether, and others - Beyond dollarization? Visa and Dune report finds non-USD stablecoins increasingly being used as money - 'Our interpretation is not an endpoint': The SEC just clarified its crypto rules, but will they stick? - Bitcoin consolidation points to potential market bottom as selling pressure wanes, K33 says - Coinbase pushes order book, perps and futures data onchain with Chainlink's DataLink bridge - Tom Lee's Bitmine debuts MAVAN Ethereum staking platform, plans to shift its ETH activity - Cipher Digital adds third AI lease, lines up $200 million credit facility as CIFR shares rise 10% - Bitwise sees Circle worth $75 billion by 2030 as analysts defend stock after selloff - Stablecoin startup Payy, focused on private transactions, raises $6 million in seed funding - Visa takes on Canton Super Validator role, marking major step in engaging with blockchain governance - Startale Group closes $63 million Series A with investments from SBI Group and Sony Innovation Fund - 'Big boy' Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin ETF launch likely 'imminent' says analyst - Binance outlines market maker, token launch 'red flags' in updated trading rules - The Daily: Circle selloff questioned as analysts defend outlook, Bhutan offloads $37M in BTC, Bitmine adds $145M in ETH, and more - Franklin Templeton taps Ondo Finance to tokenize five equities and gold ETFs - UK’s Starmer backs pause on crypto political donations, citing 'illicit finance' risks - Lawmakers weigh tokenization push as SEC preps innovation exemption plan - Mastercard set to be crypto-fiat 'network connector' following BVNK acquisition: Mizuho - Circle unfreezes one of 16 blacklisted USDC wallets following backlash: ZachXBT - Coinbase again declines to support updated Clarity Act draft: report - US indicts Chinese nationals using crypto in global fentanyl trafficking - US court rejects crypto dev's lawsuit seeking safe harbor for non-custodial software - Elon Musk taps former Base, Aave exec Benji Taylor to lead design on X - White House clears review of rule that could open path for crypto in $10 trillion 401(k) market - Bipartisan lawmakers introduce PREDICT Act to bar federal officials from prediction markets