Investors Withdraw More Than 196,000 BTC From Crypto Exchanges

Investors Withdraw More Than 196,000 BTC From Crypto Exchanges

Advertisment Bitcoin slipped below the $90,000 mark once again on Sunday evening, while centralized crypto exchanges continue to experience a sharp decline in BTC reserves. Exchange balances are now at their lowest level since autumn 2018, highlighting a significant shift in investor behavior. According to recent on-chain data from analytics firm CryptoQuant, investors have withdrawn…

Memecoins Are Not Dead, but Will Return in Another Form: Crypto Exec

Memecoins Are Not Dead, but Will Return in Another Form: Crypto Exec

Memecoins are not dead because the market is down and the narrative has faded, according to president of payment infrastructure company MoonPay, Keith A. Grossman, who said that memecoins will be back but in a different form. The real innovation of memecoins is that attention can be tokenized easily and at low costs through blockchain…

Compliance, Credibility, and Consumer Trust in the New Age of Crypto ATMs

Compliance, Credibility, and Consumer Trust in the New Age of Crypto ATMs

Walk into a gas station, grocery store, or convenience store today, and you might see a small orange kiosk glowing in the corner. What started as a curiosity has quietly become one of the most familiar in-person touchpoints in the digital economy: the crypto ATM. With close to 40,000 crypto ATMs operating worldwide, this technology…

Brazil busts $500M laundering ring, vast fraud network

Brazil busts $500M laundering ring, vast fraud network

Brazil busts $500M crypto laundering ring after federal police uncovered a nationwide network using digital assets to hide illicit funds. Authorities said the group operated for five years, moving billions through shell firms and cryptocurrencies. Nationwide police operation targets crypto fraud Brazil busts $500M crypto laundering ring through Operation Kryptolaundry, launched on December 9 by…

Bitcoin Finds Structural Support as Institutional Buying Anchors the $80,000 Level

Bitcoin Finds Structural Support as Institutional Buying Anchors the $80,000 Level

Advertisment Bitcoin continues to trade within a tight range around the $90,000 mark following the latest Federal Reserve meeting. While the central bank signaled fewer interest rate cuts than markets had anticipated for 2026—a short-term headwind for risk assets—on-chain data tells a more constructive story beneath the surface. Institutional accumulation and converging on-chain metrics point…

How HashKey Plans to Become Hong Kong’s First Crypto IPO

How HashKey Plans to Become Hong Kong’s First Crypto IPO

Key takeaways HashKey is aiming to become Hong Kong’s first fully crypto-native IPO by listing 240.57 million shares under the city’s virtual asset regulatory regime. The business extends beyond a spot exchange by combining trading, custody, institutional staking, asset management and tokenization into a single regulated platform. Revenue is growing, but the company is still…

Bitcoin Giant Strategy Keeps Spot in Nasdaq 100 Index

Bitcoin Giant Strategy Keeps Spot in Nasdaq 100 Index

Bitcoin-heavy firm Strategy (MSTR) will remain in the Nasdaq 100 index, surviving the annual reshuffle that saw several household names dropped. The firm, which began as business software provider MicroStrategy, pivoted in 2020 to stockpiling bitcoin as its core strategy. It has since then accumulated 660,624 BTC worth $59.55 billion, and it was added to…