The Smarter Web Company Buys 83 Bitcoin for £5.2M
The Smarter Web Company has acquired 83 Bitcoin for £5.2 million, a corporate treasury move that signals a deliberate commitment to holding the asset on its balance sheet rather than treating
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Vodacom to keep 15% Safaricom stake pending Court of Appeal’s ruling on $1.9 billion deal
African telecom operator Vodacom Group has said the latest court ruling allows it to keep the additional 15% of Safaricom shares that gave it control of the Kenyan telecom operator until a “f
Binance Requires Full USDC Reserves for Stock Put Sellers
Binance now requires sellers writing stock put options on its platform to hold full USDC reserves equal to the position's potential purchase obligation, making every short put a fully cash-se
Singapore Gulf Bank Brings USD and Stablecoin Swaps to Its Banking App
Singapore Gulf Bank says USD and stablecoin swaps are now live: USD can be converted with USDT and USDC inside an SGB account, 24 hours a day, Monday to Friday. Wu Blockchain's version goes f
CoreWeave, Broadcom Push Back on OKXICE Tokenized Stocks
CoreWeave and Broadcom are reportedly pushing back against plans to list tokenized versions of their shares. The dispute involves OKXICE, a joint venture between OKX and ICE, according to The
This Fresh Partnership Will Connect XRP to Elon Musk’s X Money
Four months ago, crypto researcher SMQKE (@SMQKEDQG) posted a detailed breakdown of how XRP could connect to X Money through Fireblocks. However, the dynamics have shifted, as Ripple has anno
How Often Do Major Exchanges Actually Publish Proof of Reserves?
Reporting frequency for proof of reserves varies more than the marketing suggests: some exchanges report monthly, some quarterly, and one of the largest platforms in this comparison doesn't r
What Do Crypto Holders Need to Know Before Buying Real Estate Internationally?
In 2014, an early Bitcoin investor set out to buy a house with crypto and ran into a wall: he had the coins and the conviction, but his brokers, Stephan Burke and Carol Cassis, could not find
Sergey Nazarov: The Man Behind Chainlink
Sergey Nazarov is the co-founder of Chainlink, the decentralized oracle network that supplies outside data to blockchains. Born in 1986 in the Soviet Union, he moved to the United States with
Why Did Stellar and Ripple Split From the Same Roots?
Stellar and Ripple split because Jed McCaleb, a founding member of Ripple, left the company in 2013 over its for-profit direction and its control of the XRP Ledger, then co-founded Stellar in
Tether backs Saber Money as payments firm targets Asia and Gulf expansion
Saber Money has secured strategic funding from stablecoin issuer Tether and CMCC Global’s Titan Fund to expand its cross-border payment operations across Asia-Pacific and the Gulf region. Sum
Judge Denies Gemini-CFTC Bid to Scrap $5M Settlement | NFTenex
KEY POINTS A federal judge denied a joint request by Gemini and the CFTC to vacate a Biden-era $5 million settlement. Both parties had pushed together to undo the earlier resolution, an unusu