Helen Partz

Russian banks have started rolling out crypto investment products tied to the price of Bitcoin following a greenlight from the central bank.

xAI’s Grok could soon be accessible in Telegram and will offer chats, text editing, chat and document summaries, inbox agents, group chat moderation and more.

GameStop’s 4,710 Bitcoin purchase is the company’s first since it disclosed plans in March to move into alternative investments.

Telegram’s bond raise includes a 9% yield and a 20% IPO discount, attracting institutional investors like Citadel alongside BlackRock and Mubadala.

As part of its 24 million-share IPO, Circle will be offering 9.6 million shares of Class A common stock, while selling stockholders will offer the remaining 14.4 million shares.

The United Kingdom has seen the sharpest growth in new crypto users despite the country’s not adopting crypto regulation or its own “MiCA equivalent.”

Initial testing of the payment and banking app will be limited because "extreme care" must be taken when people's savings are involved, Elon Musk wrote on X.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy continued stacking Bitcoin as the cryptocurrency broke an all-time high above $110,000 last week.

The record-breaking $10.8 billion milestone in crypto ETP inflows year to date came after global crypto investment products posted another record last week.

Ripple’s Stuart Alderoty said “procedural concerns” are at the heart of a court’s denial of a joint motion by Ripple and the SEC to settle the regulator’s case against it.

Hong Kong-rooted DDC has acquired 100 Bitcoin as part of its BTC reserve plan to acquire 5,000 BTC in the next 36 months.

Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor told the Financial Times in a new documentary that his company is well-positioned to become a $10 trillion enterprise one day.

Crypto prime broker FalconX will integrate Standard Chartered’s banking infrastructure and access to a range of diverse currency pairs for its institutional clients.

South Korea’s new Digital Asset Committee joins similar initiatives such as the Virtual Asset Committee launched in late 2024 by the Financial Services Commission.

Tether Gold has arrived in Thailand with a listing on Maxbit, an exchange backed by PTG Energy, a major Thai energy conglomerate.

With its latest purchase, Strategy has achieved a Bitcoin yield of 15.5%, breaking its previous 2025 target, which was lifted to 25% in early May.

Continued inflows have brought the total assets in global crypto funds to $169 billion, just 2.5% below the historic record of $173.3 billion seen in the last week of January.

BitGo’s MiCA license allows it to offer services to crypto-native firms and traditional finance institutions, including banks and asset managers within the EU.

Gemini’s new derivatives offering in Europe will include perpetual futures and other derivatives, which will be available to advanced exchange users.

Taiwan legislator Ko Ju-Chun proposed allocating a small percentage of the Taiwanese reserves to Bitcoin as part of the diversified reserve strategy.

The $38 million crypto seizure from Bybit hack-linked eXch was the third-largest crypto confiscation in the history of Germany’s federal criminal police.

Unlike the previous $100,000 hits, the new price spike came as Bitcoin market dominance surged above 60%, reflecting more bullish BTC sentiment.

Deribit is the world's leading Bitcoin and Ethereum options trading platform, with more than $1.2 trillion in annual trading volume.

Donald Trump-backed USD1 stablecoin saw its market cap rise from $128 million to above $2 billion days before MGX’s $2 billion investment announcement by Eric Trump.

Bhutan’s tourism department and Binance said the new venture is the “world’s first national-level crypto tourism payment system.”

The new partnership aims to combine Grab’s expertise in crowdsourced mapping with Natix’s DePIN model that rewards users for providing decentralized data input.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy slowed Bitcoin buying last week as BTC neared $100,000, while Semler Scientific ramped up its crypto investments.

Crypto ETPs saw $2 billion in inflows last week, with Bitcoin leading gains and BlackRock dominating activity.

Tether AI’s crypto payment support will be enabled via a newly launched wallet development kit that enables self-custodial wallets for Bitcoin and Tether's USDt.

Indonesia’s Digital Ministry is seeking public input to its probe into World’s local operators, alleging suspicious activity and registration violations.