Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov Unveils New Era of Institutional On-Chain Infrastructure at SmartCon 2025

During SmartCon 2025, Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov delivered one of the most important keynotes in the project’s history, revealing major upgrades to the Chainlink platform designed to accelerate institutional adoption and unlock a new generation of secure, compliant, and privacy-preserving…

S&P Issues First Credit Rating to a Bitcoin Treasury Company as Institutional Adoption Accelerates

In a historic move for the digital asset sector, S&P Global has issued its first-ever credit rating to a Bitcoin-focused treasury company, granting MicroStrategy—recently rebranded as “Strategy”—a B- rating. Executive Chairman Michael Saylor called the milestone “an auspicious start” that…

Crypto market dips BTC ETH DOGE slide amid $1.1B liquidations

The crypto market opened November on a weak note after October failed to deliver the usual “Uptober” bounce, with selling pressure broadening and key assets slipping to fresh multi-week lows. Bitcoin fell about 4% on Monday to a recent price…

ARK Invest crypto exposure reaches $2.15B across 3 funds

ARK Invest added to its crypto exposure this week, lifting its stake in Bullish by 105,000 shares worth about $5.3 million, and pushing its total holding to roughly 2.27 million shares valued at about $114 million at Friday’s close of…

Bitwise’s Solana ETF posts 69.5M in first day inflows vs SSK

Bitwise’s Solana ETF drew about $69.5 million on its first trading day, a clear lead over Rex-Osprey’s SSK launch that gathered roughly $12 million, and the fund pairs a 0.20% management fee—waived for the first three months—with in-house staking that…

Polymarket token and airdrop after US relaunch from 2025

Polymarket confirmed a token and an airdrop after it restarts service for U.S. users. The company plans a phased approach that places the domestic relaunch ahead of any token event. Leadership set expectations on timing and order during a Thursday…

Bitcoin and Ethereum Options $6 Billion Expire pre Sept CPI

Bitcoin and Ethereum Options take center stage today as about $5.86 billion in expiring contracts meet an already watchful market at 8:00 UTC on Deribit. Open interest runs heavy into the event, with $5.1 billion tied to Bitcoin and $754…

Trump pardons CZ after 4 months and $4.3B Binance settlement

Trump pardons CZ on October 23, 2025, after a late-2023 guilty plea tied to anti-money-laundering failures at Binance and a four-month prison sentence, with a White House note declaring that the “war on crypto” is over and signaling a reset…

Crypto money laundering did Canada issue a record $126M fine?

Crypto money laundering stands at the center of a major compliance case in Canada. FINTRAC imposed a C$176.9 million ($126.14 million) penalty on Xeltox Enterprises Limited. The agency described it as its largest penalty to date. Investigators cited missed suspicious…

SEC & CFTC set 2025 crypto oversight goals despite shutdown?

Federal regulators, the SEC & CFTC, are setting firm goals to complete key crypto initiatives by the end of 2025, focusing on listed spot crypto trading and tokenized collateral. Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham stated on X that these priorities…