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Hacken says Web3 losses climbed to nearly $4 billion in 2025, with North Korea behind over half the damage, and regulators are under pressure to turn security guidance into hard rules. The Hacken 2025 Yearly Security Report puts total Web3 losses at about $3.95 billion, up roughly $1.1 billion from 2024, with just over half of that attributed to North...
Bitcoin buying power from institutions flipped the daily mined BTC supply for the first time since the start of November, new data showed. Bitcoin BTC $89,503 institutional demand is finally outpacing new supply as the market hits a key pivot point.Key points: Bitcoin institutional demand is now 13% higher than the amount of newly mined BTC on a rolling daily basis....
Crypto has tracked lower late this year despite pro-regulation shifts, ETF launches, and institutional buying, prompting analysts to question structural issues. Analysts and investors are questioning why crypto isn’t in a bull market, given the amount of positive drivers that have taken place this year. “At some point, we need to admit that something is structurally broken in the crypto...
Screenshots of an email shared online purportedly show founder Yida Gao stepping down as managing director of Shima Capital and outlining plans for an orderly wind-down of the fund. Screenshots of an internal email outlining plans to wind down Shima Capital have surfaced online, days after the US Securities and Exchange Commission sued the crypto venture firm and its founder...
Standard Chartered, Coinbase deepen alliance to build institutional crypto infrastructure Standard Chartered and Coinbase are expanding their partnership to develop trading, custody and financing services aimed at institutional crypto clients. Standard Chartered and Coinbase have expanded their partnership to build crypto infrastructure for institutional clients. As part of the partnership, the duo will explore offerings across trading, prime services, custody,...
Abu Dhabi is anchoring Bitcoin for institutions, while Dubai builds payments, stablecoins and Web3 use cases into daily commerce. The United Arab Emirates is not choosing between Bitcoin and broader crypto. Instead, it is deliberately building both, in different cities and for different stages of adoption. Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, has positioned itself as a hub for...
The shares of both bitcoin-related firms are posting modest early gains Wednesday, but remain sharply lower over the past several days. What to know: American Bitcoin (ABTC) added 416 bitcoin in the past week, raising its holdings to 4,783 coins. ProCap Financial (BRR) — whose SPAC merger was completed last week — marginally lifted its holdings to 5,000 bitcoin. ...
Japan plans to move crypto regulation from payments law to securities rules, tightening disclosures for IEOs and cracking down on unregistered platforms. Japan’s financial regulators are preparing to move crypto asset oversight out of the country’s payments regime and into a framework designed for investment and securities markets. The Financial Services Agency (FSA) on Wednesday released a comprehensive report from the Financial...
Bitcoin needs to regain momentum with higher trading volumes for BTC to clear the next big hurdle at $92,000-$95,000 and return to new all-time highs. Bitcoin’s BTC $91,190 relief rally to $91,000 appears to be cooling, but analysts say the short-term trend for BTC “remains up.” Key takeaways: Bitcoin must next take out immediate resistance between $92,000 and $95,000. Spot volume and trading...
Spain’s Sumar party reportedly wants to raise crypto taxes to 47%, classify all digital assets as seizable and introduce a “risk traffic light” system. Spain’s Sumar parliamentary group has introduced amendments to reform three major tax laws affecting cryptocurrencies, including the General Tax Law, Income Tax Law and Inheritance and Gift Tax Law, according to local media. The proposal would...