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Goldman Sachs to Acquire Innovator Capital Management in $2 Billion ETF Strategic Move

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Goldman Sachs announces acquisition of Innovator Capital Management, a pioneering ETF provider with $28 billion in assets, including bitcoin-linked defined outcome ETF strategies. Goldman Sachs has entered into an agreement to acquire Innovator Capital Management, a leader in defined outcome exchange-traded funds (ETFs), for approximately $2 billion. The transaction, expected to close in the second … Read more

Casa Achieves SOC 2 Type II Attestation for Self‑Custody Platform

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Casa completed a SOC 2 Type II audit covering April 1–Nov. 15, 2025, attesting to its controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy. Casa co‑founder and CSO Jameson Lopp said that the bitcoin self‑custody firm successfully passed a SOC 2 Type II audit conducted by Prescient Assurance, reporting that controls to prevent unauthorized … Read more

Bybit Announces $100,000 Humanitarian Aid for Sri Lanka After Cyclone Ditwah Floods

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Cryptocurrency exchange provides emergency relief to support communities devastated by severe flooding across Southeast Asia, with 420 lives lost and tens of thousands displaced. Bybit has committed $100,000 in humanitarian aid to support relief efforts in Sri Lanka following Cyclone Ditwah. The disaster has caused catastrophic flooding across Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka, resulting … Read more

People’s Bank of China Still Combating Virtual Currency, Stablecoin Trading

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Chinese financial regulators reaffirm strict stance against cryptocurrency activities, emphasizing their illegal status and potential financial risks. On November 28, 2025, the People’s Bank of China convened a coordination meeting involving multiple government agencies, including the Ministry of Public Security, Cyberspace Administration, and financial regulatory bodies. The meeting addressed the recent resurgence of virtual currency … Read more

Safello Expands Cryptocurrency Offering With XRP, BNB, MANA, and Five More Digital Assets

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Nordic cryptocurrency exchange adds eight cryptocurrencies to the platform, including XRP, ETC (Ethereum Classic), BNB, TRX (Tron), XLM (Stellar), POL (Polygon), GALA, and MANA (Decentraland). Stockholm-based Safello has expanded its cryptocurrency trading platform by introducing eight new digital assets: XRP, Ethereum Classic, BNB, Tron, Stellar, Polygon, Gala, and Decentraland. The addition brings Safello’s total cryptocurrency … Read more

Bitcoin Falls off a Cliff as $91K Support Vaporizes

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Bitcoin’s price on Sunday just before 8 p.m. Eastern time flashed a dramatic breakdown as a wave of heavy selling torched support and dragged the price from the mid-$91,000 region into the high-$86,000s in a matter of minutes. After a decent stretch of quiet, orderly trading, everything snapped at once. After hovering around the $91,000 … Read more

Sony’s Soneium Transforms J-Pop Fandom With Blockchain and AI at Largest Idol Festival

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Sony launches innovative blockchain platform enabling fans to convert social media engagement into verifiable onchain influence for Japanese idol groups. Sony’s Soneium blockchain platform is revolutionizing fan interaction at the IDOL RUNWAY COLLECTION (IRC) 2026 festival by introducing an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered app that transforms social media activity into measurable fan contributions. The IRC APP, … Read more

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Ignites Chatter With Another Bitcoin Transfer to New Wallets

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According to onchain data, SpaceX shuffled its bitcoin once more today, sending funds to two separate wallets. The move was spotted by onchain analyst Sani’s timechain bot, which flagged the company’s latest hop of 1,163 BTC. SpaceX’s last bitcoin (BTC) shuffle came just a month ago, and on Nov. 26, 2025, at block 925338, the … Read more

DWF Labs Launches $75 Million Fund to Accelerate DeFi Infrastructure Development

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Global digital asset investor DWF Labs targets next-generation decentralized finance projects across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, and Base ecosystems. DWF Labs has announced a $75 million investment fund focused on advancing decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure, targeting projects building perpetual decentralized exchanges (DEXs), money markets, and yield protocols. Managing Partner Andrei Grachev emphasized the fund’s strategic … Read more

Dutch Bitcoin Asset Manager Blockrise Obtains MiCAR License for European Expansion

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Blockrise secures a Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation license, positioning itself as a regulated bitcoin-only platform across the European Union. Rotterdam-based Blockrise, a Dutch bitcoin startup, has been granted a license by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) under the new European Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). The license enables Blockrise to provide Bitcoin … Read more