Strive, the publicly traded asset manager co‑founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, has announced a 500 million dollar at‑the‑market preferred stock offering, with plans to channel the funds into additional Bitcoin purchases, Bitcoin‑related products and broader corporate growth initiatives, reinforcing its strategy as a long‑term BTC reserve company. Read More
Argentina’s Central Bank is working on a new regulatory framework that would allow local banks to provide crypto trading and custody services from 2026, aiming to replace informal platforms with supervised access and to formalize the country’s fast‑growing use of digital assets amid persistent inflation and currency controls. Read More
A U.S. judge in Manhattan has handed Terraform Labs co‑founder Do Kwon a 15‑year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire‑fraud charges, with prosecutors arguing that the engineered collapse of TerraUSD and Luna caused more than 40 billion dollars in losses and sparked a wider crisis across the crypto market. Read More
The Bank of Russia has unveiled a new regulatory concept that would, for the first time, allow non‑qualified retail investors to buy approved, highly liquid cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin through licensed intermediaries, capped at about 300,000 rubles per year and subject to a knowledge test. Professional and “qualified” investors would be able to trade a…
Through its new collaboration with the ADI Foundation, Mastercard plans to support stablecoin‑based settlement for domestic and cross‑border payments, launch stablecoin‑linked payment cards, and explore tokenized real‑world asset use cases, aligning with the UAE’s goal of becoming a regional hub for digital assets and compliant blockchain infrastructure. Source: cryptorank
The expansion will see Ondo Global Markets, already a leading venue for tokenized equities on Ethereum, deploy its tokenized stock and ETF rails on Solana, giving traders 24/7 access to on‑chain versions of major U.S. securities while leveraging the network’s throughput and low fees to build a next‑generation internet capital market. Read More
