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Crypto.com Secures Full CFTC Derivatives Stack, Clears Way for Margined Crypto Products

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Crypto.com announced that its affiliate Crypto.com | Derivatives North America (CDNA) has received approval for an amended designated contract market (DCM) license, completing a full suite of U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) derivatives permissions — DCM, DCO and FCM. The DCM amendment authorizes margined derivatives trading (including crypto perpetuals) on CDNA alongside its existing … Read more

Swiss Crypto Bank Sygnum Launches Regulated Bitcoin Yield Fund Targeting 8–10% Annual Returns

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Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum today launched the Starboard Sygnum BTC Alpha Fund, developed with Starboard Digital and Starmark as AIFM, targeting an 8–10% annual return paid in bitcoin via systematic arbitrage strategies that convert trading profits into additional BTC. Designed for professional and institutional investors, the Cayman-domiciled fund offers monthly liquidity, a strict risk-management … Read more

Crypto.com Partners With Sharps Technology to Manage $400M+ Solana Treasury and Boost Ecosystem Liquidity

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Crypto.com and Sharps Technology, Inc. (STSS) announced a partnership to bolster Solana ecosystem growth by deploying the platform’s institutional-grade custody and OTC services to manage STSS’s solana-focused digital asset treasury. STSS, which holds over 2 million SOL—valued at more than $400 million with SOL trading above $200—will use Crypto.com’s custody infrastructure, deep‑liquidity OTC desk and … Read more

OKX Singapore Enables USDC and USDT Payments at Grab Merchants via QR Codes

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OKX Singapore launched scan‑to‑pay support allowing users to spend USDC and USDT at Grab Pay merchants by scanning Singapore’s unified QR code (SGQR) through OKX Pay. Transactions will be settled onchain using the purpose bound money (PBM) framework, which applies programmable logic for compliant, conditional settlement, while regulated payment provider StraitsX performs compliance checks and … Read more

Starknet Unveils BTCFi: Trustless BTC Staking, Partners, and 100M STRK Incentives

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Starknet today announced BTCFi, a trilogy of initiatives aimed at deepening bitcoin’s role as a global settlement asset by embedding BTC into Starknet’s security and consensus. For the first time on any L2, BTC holders can stake without losing custody to secure Starknet and earn rewards; the protocol already reportedly has ~65k delegators, ~150 validators … Read more

ECB Advocates Digital Euro as Shield for Freedom, Autonomy and Security

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Piero Cipollone, member of the ECB Executive Board, delivered a keynote at the Baltic conference “Payments & Policy in a Changing Environment,” arguing the digital euro is essential to preserve Europeans’ ability to use sovereign money as transactions go increasingly digital. Cipollone framed the digital euro as an extension of central bank money that would … Read more

Capital B Finalizes 12 BTC Acquisition; Holdings Reach 2,812 Bitcoin

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Capital B (The Blockchain Group, ISIN: FR0011053636, ticker: ALCPB) has completed an “ATM‑type” capital increase with TOBAM at €1.70 per share, raising €1.2 million ($1.4 million) to acquire 12 BTC. The transaction brings the group’s total crypto treasury to 2,812 BTC, acquired for €262.1 million ($307.3 million) at an average price of €93,216 per bitcoin, … Read more

Fnality Raises $136M Series C to Accelerate DLT‑Enabled Wholesale Settlement

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Fnality announced a $136 million Series C round led by Wisdomtree, Bank of America, Citi, KBC Group, Temasek and Tradeweb, with participation from existing investors including Banco Santander, Barclays, BNP Paribas, DTCC, Euroclear, Goldman Sachs, ING, Nasdaq Ventures, State Street and UBS. The funding will scale Fnality’s regulated distributed‑ledger payment systems—built to bridge wholesale markets … Read more

Vitalik Buterin Calls for Full‑Stack Openness and Verifiability to Secure a Digital Future

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a blog post advocating for “full‑stack” openness and verifiability across software, hardware and bio systems to preserve freedom and security as the internet becomes indistinguishable from real life. Buterin argues that open source code, verifiable hardware, and privacy‑preserving cryptography (ZK‑SNARKs, FHE, differential privacy) are essential to prevent centralization, baked‑in backdoors … Read more

Interactive Brokers-Led $104M Series D-2 Propels Zerohash to $275M Total Funding

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Zerohash announced a $104 million Series D-2 round led by Interactive Brokers with new institutional participants including Morgan Stanley, Sofi, Apollo-managed funds, Jump Crypto, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, FTMO, IMC and Liberty City Ventures, alongside existing investors PEAK6, Tastytrade and Nyca Partners. The raise brings Zerohash’s total funding to $275 million and will accelerate product … Read more

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