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Robinhood’s Venture Fund Bets $25 Million on Crusoe as Bitcoin Miner Turns to AI

Robinhood Ventures Fund I has invested about $25 million in Crusoe, backing the company's transformation from a Bitcoin mining business into an AI infrastructure...

State-Linked Hackers Drive 420% Surge in Onchain Malware Activity

Hackers linked to North Korea and Iran are increasingly using public blockchains to support malware operations, according to new research from Chainalysis. The firm...

U.S. Sanctions BitBank Over Alleged Bitcoin Transfers to Iran’s IRGC

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Iranian cryptocurrency exchange BitBank, accusing the platform of helping move hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to...

Circle Launches Arc Studio to Build Onchain Apps With AI

Circle has launched Arc Studio, an AI coding agent designed to help developers build onchain applications, smart contracts and AI agents using natural-language prompts....

Galaxy Brings Institutional Stablecoin Yield Vaults to Solana Through Kamino

Galaxy has expanded its onchain finance business to Solana with two new stablecoin lending vaults on Kamino. The launch gives users access to Galaxy...

Zcash Nears $1,400 as Holders Preserve Bitcoin-Style Halvings

Zcash surged toward $1,400 on Thursday after coinholders backed the network's next major upgrade while preserving its existing Bitcoin-style halving schedule. The privacy-focused cryptocurrency...

U.S. Bitcoin Reserve Bill Advances After 28-21 House Committee Vote

A U.S. bill aimed at putting the federal government's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into law cleared a key congressional hurdle this week, signaling continued momentum...

Arc Mainnet Posts $410.8 Million in DEX Volume as Memecoin Launchpads Dominate Day One

Circle's Arc blockchain recorded $410.8 million in decentralized exchange volume during its first public mainnet day, with memecoin launchpads generating about 82% of the...

Moscow Exchange to Launch Ruble-Settled Crypto Perpetual Futures on Sept. 22

Moscow Exchange will launch perpetual futures tied to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP and TRON indexes on Sept. 22, expanding Russia's regulated cryptocurrency derivatives market....

Celsius Estate Sues BitMEX Over $495 Million Bitcoin Liquidations Ahead of Exchange Shutdown

The Celsius bankruptcy estate has sued BitMEX over the alleged wrongful liquidation of 6,360 BTC during the March 2020 market crash. The cryptocurrency now...

Strategy Uses STRC Buybacks to Push Preferred Shares Back Toward $100

Strategy has stepped up its repurchases of STRC preferred shares as the security trades below its $100 stated value, using corporate capital to support...

Revolut Faces $3 Million Monero Ransom Threat After Customer Data Breach

Hackers claiming responsibility for a Revolut data breach have demanded 6,000 Monero, worth about $3 million, and threatened to sell confidential customer records within...