Harris highlighted the "borderless nature" of the crypto market, suggesting that a passporting system - where companies regulated in one jurisdiction can operate in another without undergoing a full authorization process - could enhance investor protection, reduce compliance costs, and improve market interoperability.
Onramp, a Bitcoin-only financial services company, recently launched an institutional-grade asset management offering, built on top of their multisignature, multi-institutional, multi-jurisdictional custody platform. Onramp is by all intents and purposes a 21st-century, full-reserve Bitcoin bank, leveraging Bitcoin's unique and paradigm-shifting technology, in partnership with institutional custodians like BitGo, CoinCover, and Tetra Trust. Founded in Texas in 2022 by Michael Tanguna, a former Google and Unchained Capital executive, Onramp looks to democratize institutional-grade custody, offering the full range of financial services to Bitcoiners of all sizes;
Bitcoin treasury companies have become one of the most important demand drivers in this cycle. Collectively, 86 publicly traded firms now hold more than 1 million BTC on their balance sheets. What began with MSTR (Strategy) in 2020 has since spread across the corporate landscape, with new entrants joining seemingly every week. But a closer look at their purchase history reveals a surprising insight that many of these companies could be holding considerably more Bitcoin today if they had followed a simple, rules-based strategy for accumulation.
Google has helped strike another deal with a Bitcoin miner. On Thursday, Cipher Mining announced that it was leasing a data warehouse it owns in Colorado City, Texas, to an AI computing startup. The Bitcoin miner projects the contract to net the company $3 billion over its initial 10-year term and $7 billion if two five-year extensions are exercised. Cipher Mining struck the deal with Fluidstack, an AI computing startup based in the U.K.
The YieldMax MSTR Option Income Strategy ETF ( NYSEARCA:MSTY) has been moving steadily lower over the months. With shares now going for $15 and change per share, many investors are wondering if it's worth it to keep buying on the way down to lower that average cost basis or if it's better to just hang on for the ride. In a specific case I stumbled upon on Reddit, a poster asked if they're the only person out there that's continuing to buy on the way down. Of course, this person may feel alone in buying MSTY shares into weakness, but they're not. Many folks on Reddit are just content with hanging on and collecting that massive distribution payout that continues to be quite towering to this day at just north of 92%.
Botanix, founded in 2023 at Harvard by Willem Schroé, operates as a Bitcoin Layer Two protocol or sidechain similar to the Liquid Network and Rootstock - but with some novel differences, including the use of more modern scripting tools in Bitcoin, the sharing of network fee revenue with stakeholders and a federation of 16 node operators as its custody foundation.
Chainflip is building the next generation of native cross-chain financial infrastructure, starting with seamless asset swapping and now expanding into cross-chain lending. We enable users to swap major crypto assets like BTC, ETH, and SOL across chains - without wrapped tokens- and have already processed almost $4 billion in trades since launch. Chainflip achieves this by running its own blockchain and a network of validators that control vaults across multiple ecosystems, making the user experience smooth, secure, and fast.
First coined in 2021 by Demetri Kofinas, the host of the Hidden Forces podcast, "financial nihilism" is a trend that describes how Gen Z and even some younger millennials, who are profoundly disillusioned with the traditional financial system, believing it's unfair and unpredictable, are finding it pointless to save for retirement or invest in the stock market, or in bonds, or other conventional ways.
Since his appointment, Soohoo has wasted little time accelerating MoneyGram's transition into a competitive force. Over lunch, the new CEO told me that digital transactions accounted for only about 20% of total transactions in 2019, but had climbed to 50% when he took over. During his tenure, he has already boosted that to 70% and, in another impressive feat, integrated a stablecoin tool into MoneyGram's app.
For all the hype around blockchain, many enterprises remain hesitant to make the leap. The hesitation is not about whether blockchain has potential. It is about risk. Most blockchain projects today require committing to a single chain, which is placing a long-term bet on a rapidly shifting market. If the chosen chain fails, becomes too expensive to operate on or is outpaced by competitors, that investment could quickly unravel.
XRP's Rollercoaster Ride to a New Regulatory Dawn XRPRipple 's native token, is built for fast, low-cost cross-border payments, settling in 3-5 seconds - outpacing traditional SWIFT systems. With over 200 global financial institutions, XRP aims to expand its role in global cross-border payments, a market projected to reach tens of billions of dollars by 2025. Its path, however, faced headwinds from a four-year SEC lawsuit alleging unregistered securities sales.
Navigating crypto's regulatory maze has long been a hurdle for exchanges. The SEC's recent approval of standardized listing criteria for commodity-based ETPs, highlighted by Commissioner Hester Peirce, marks a turning point. Previously, exchanges faced lengthy approvals for each ETP under Section 19(b) of the Exchange Act. The new rule sets clear benchmarks - assets must trade on surveilled markets, back CFTC-regulated futures for six months, or support ETFs with 40% economic exposure - streamlining the process.
We are pleased with our results for the quarter - we saw exciting liquidity services growth, executed on a successful Consensus conference, and prepared for what would be a successful IPO. We're excited that the work we did in the second quarter is already directly contributing to strong business momentum in the third quarter and beyond. Our recent receipt of the prestigious New York DFS Bitlicense is testament to our institutional rigor and truly global reach.
Securing this five-year extension to our partnership with Strategy, reinforces our conviction that corporate Bitcoin adoption is not slowing down and will only continue to accelerate,
Israel's Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that it was ordering the seizure of 187 crypto wallets that allegedly belong to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC. In a document detailing the seizure order, the ministry's National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) said it was "convinced that the cryptocurrency wallets" in the list are property of the IRGC and are "used for the perpetration of a severe terror crime."
Crypto has exploded into the mainstream, shedding its fringe status to become a cornerstone of modern finance. With Bitcoin ( ) trading at almost $116,000 and institutional adoption surging - driven by ETF inflows, corporate treasuries, and a pro-crypto administration - digital assets are no longer just for speculators. Crypto exchanges are the gateways to this booming ecosystem and are reaping massive rewards from the frenzy. In the past few months, three powerhouse platforms have gone public, each riding a wave of hype and regulatory tailwinds.
Hardy noticed elderly women entering the gas station with bags of cash on three separate occasions, looking anxious and usually on the phone or texting someone. Each time, they used the Bitcoin ATM, or BTM, to convert their dead presidents into crypto. Suspecting something fishy was afoot, Hardy gently prodded the old ladies. "Do you know where you're sending the money to?" Hardy would ask, per . "You don't have to be on the phone to send money, as long as you have the other person's information."
ZFX, a cutting-edge fintech company, is pleased to announce its participation at Traders Fair 2025 Bangkok, taking place on 13 September 2025 at ICONSIAM. event will bring together leading brokers, fintech innovators, and trading professionals from across the globe. During the event, ZFX will showcase its highly anticipated crypto asset, ZDS (Zeal Digital Share), in partnership with the prestigious trading brands ZFX and Traze.
