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Bullish (BLSH) shares soared more than 11% after the company spent $4.2 billion to acquire transfer agent Equiniti. The stock rose another 1.5% in premarket trading on Wednesday, with analysts viewing the deal as a game changer outside of cryptocurrency trading. The acquisition gives Bullish, a crypto platform led by former New York Stock Exchange…
Bitcoin Bitcoin$81,441.04 It moved higher on Tuesday, climbing to $81,500, its highest level since January, as the latest leg of gains expanded beyond major coins into tokenization-focused areas. The largest cryptocurrency has gained another 2% in the past 24 hours and is now up more than 35% from its early February lows. Ethereum (ETH), XRP…
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Tokenization won’t replace systems overnight, but it is steadily reshaping the underlying pipeline, Wall Street executives said at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami. Digital asset leaders from Citi, JPMorgan and DTCC said during the panel discussion that blockchain-based railways are entering production, with real volumes and real customers determining how…
Drift Protocol announced on Tuesday that it would implement a recovery plan for users affected by a $295 million breach on April 1, attributed to the North Korean state-backed DPRK hacking group identified by forensics firm Mandiant. The attack caused the protocol to suspend trading and lending immediately after the exploit. Drift said that “most…
Lawyers seeking to seize $71 million in frozen ether for victims of North Korean terrorism changed their legal strategy on Tuesday, arguing in a new court filing that the April 18 rsETH breach was not theft but fraud, directly rebutting Aave’s attempt to invalidate a restriction notice preventing the asset from being released. In a…
Disclosure: The author of this article owns shares of Strategy (MSTR). Strategy (MSTR) Reports Net Loss of $12.54 Billion in Q1 2026 as Bitcoin Bitcoin$81,327.53 By March 31, the price dropped to about $68,000 from about $87,000 on January 1. Bitcoin has rebounded above $80,000 since the start of the second quarter, and Strategy continues…
Disclosure: The author of this article owns shares of Strategy (MSTR). Strategy (MSTR) Reports Net Loss of $12.54 Billion in Q1 2026 as Bitcoin Bitcoin$81,327.53 By March 31, the price dropped to about $68,000 from about $87,000 on January 1. Bitcoin has rebounded above $80,000 since the start of the second quarter, and Strategy continues…
Kelp DAO claimed that LayerZero personnel approved the 1-of-1 validator setup, a decision that LayerZero has since cited as the reason North Korea-linked attackers stole approximately $292 million from Kelp’s rsETH bridge. This statement is contrary to LayerZero’s April 19 postmortem, which reported that Kelp’s rsETH application relied on LayerZero Labs as its sole validator…
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Morgan Stanley’s new spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (MSBT) attracted more than $200 million in early demand, largely without help from its own advisers. “Almost all of the activity in week one or two was self-directed, meaning it wasn’t our advisors selling it,” Amy Oldenburg, the bank’s newly appointed head of digital…
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Morgan Stanley’s new spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (MSBT) attracted more than $200 million in early demand, largely without help from its own advisers. “Almost all of the activity in week one or two was self-directed, meaning it wasn’t our advisors selling it,” Amy Oldenburg, the bank’s newly appointed head of digital…