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Stripe-backed blockchain startup Tempo has secured $500 million in a Series A round led by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital and Greenoaks, Fortune exclusively reported Friday. Stripe’s Blockchain Bet Tempo Secures $500M Backed by Thrive Capital Tempo, a payments-focused blockchain project co-founded by fintech giant Stripe and venture capital firm Paradigm, has closed a $500 million … Read more
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and chief investment officer of Maelstrom, is launching Maelstrom Equity Fund I, a private equity vehicle seeking to raise at least $250 million to acquire mid-sized, cash-flowing companies serving the crypto industry. Maelstrom Equity Fund I marks Hayes’ first external fund focused entirely on control-buyout deals targeting profitable “picks and … Read more
Mahidol University’s Faculty of Engineering has signed a triparty Memorandum of Understanding with ZERO13 and Unique Transformation Co., Ltd. to accelerate the development of Thailand’s carbon credit ecosystem, strengthening education, research, technology and market access. The five‑year collaboration will pilot projects, deliver training and joint research, and conduct biannual reviews to build a transparent, high‑integrity … Read more
The U.S. has approved Erebor Bank — a $275 million digital-first venture backed by Palmer Luckey and Peter Thiel — in the first major Trump-era nod to crypto-friendly banking. U.S. regulators granted preliminary approval to Erebor Bank, a new institution founded by Anduril’s Palmer Luckey and venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, with support from Peter Thiel’s … Read more
Nexo has expanded its wealth platform by integrating Metatrader 5, enabling clients to trade Contracts for Difference (CFDs) on leading equity indices (US500, US100, US30, DE40), commodities (gold, silver, oil, platinum) and major FX pairs with leverage up to 200x on select instruments. The Metatrader 5 integration brings institutional-grade, low-latency execution, deep‑liquidity, next‑generation charting, and … Read more
Safello AB, the subsidiary of Safello — the leading cryptocurrency exchange in the Nordics with over 410,000 users — has been authorized by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen) as a crypto-asset service provider under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation (MiCA). The authorization, following Safello’s April application, covers a full suite of crypto asset … Read more
Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk said on Oct. 14 on X that bitcoin is based on energy, contrasting it with fiat currencies that governments can inflate. His remark was in response to a Zerohedge post linking the rise in gold, silver, and bitcoin prices to currency debasement driven by government spending on the global … Read more
The Blockchain Recovery Investment Consortium (BRIC), a joint venture between GXD Labs and Vaneck, has reached a $299.5 million settlement with the largest stablecoin issuer by market cap, Tether, resolving litigation tied to the Celsius Network bankruptcy. The payment follows a lawsuit filed in August 2024 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District … Read more
Bitcoin Core version 30.0 has been released and brings new features, bug fixes, performance improvements, and updated translations. Notable changes include a 2,500-limit on potentially executed legacy signature operations per standard transaction, increased default datacarriersize with support for multiple OP_RETURN outputs, lower default relay and incremental feerates (0.1 sat/vB), improved mempool and 1p1c package relay … Read more
On Oct. 13, 2025, following the sharp cryptocurrency market correction earlier this week, Strategy founder Michael Saylor announced that his firm has acquired an additional 220 BTC, reaffirming his company’s ongoing confidence in bitcoin as a long-term store of value. After hinting at the purchase on Sunday via social media, Saylor confirmed the bitcoin acquisition … Read more