Capital requirements for banks from by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), which crafts banking standards, create a “chokepoint,” designed to throttle the growth of the crypto industry, according to Chris Perkins, president of investment firm CoinFund.
The current capital rules

The crypto sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is on track to become its second-largest industry in the next five years, due to the country’s regulatory policies and attractive business environment, according to Chase Ergen, a board member of publicly traded digital asset investment firm DeFi T

Venture capital firm Digital Currency Group (DCG), the parent company of many entities tied to cryptocurrency and blockchain, has filed a complaint against two of its subsidiaries over a promissory note to guard against the 2022 default of Three Arrows Capital (3AC).
In a Thursday filing in the

In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, crypto commentator Udi Wertheimer lays out a provocative thesis: Over the last five years, institutions have been quietly buying out old Bitcoin (BTC) holders — and it’s reshaping the market in a way few have appreciated.
“For the last five years,

Hive Digital, a Bitcoin miner turned data center infrastructure provider, reported record revenue and earnings in its fiscal first quarter, driven by strong growth in high-performance computing (HPC) hosting services alongside its core mining business.
In its fiscal Q1 2026, Hive generated $45.6 mi

Taiwan’s first publicly traded corporate Bitcoin treasury, Top Win International, raised $10 million to kickstart its BTC accumulation efforts.
The luxury watchmaker-turned-Bitcoin treasury announced Friday it raised $10 million from a group of investors led by zipper producer and software

Crypto kiosks or automatic teller machines (ATMs) are facing increasing pushback from US regulators amid concerns about fraud and crime.
Once seen as a bellwether of crypto adoption, crypto ATMs, which allow users to buy or convert crypto anonymously, are increasingly under lawmakers’ microscope. C

Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital closed a $1.4 billion secured term loan facility to accelerate the development of its Helios artificial intelligence datacenter campus in Texas
On Friday, the company announced that the loan will cover about 80% of the construction costs for the first phase of the p

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has proposed a provenance-based risk score system for crypto-to-fiat off-ramps.
In its Wednesday BIS Bulletin, the institution outlined “an approach to anti-money laundering compliance for cryptoassets,” recommending that a compliance score be assigned t

Key takeaways:
Peace talks can shift Bitcoin’s price through energy costs, inflation and interest rates.
In 2022, Bitcoin fell sharply, then rallied 27% above pre-invasion levels within a month.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs now act as a direct channel for macro sentiment.
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