An exchange-traded fund entity tracking NEAR has been filed as a Delaware trust company by crypto asset manager Bitwise. 

The fund manager's Bitcoin holdings accounts for only a sliver of its nearly $12 trillion in overall assets under management.

As part of the deal, Coeptis will acquire 9,000 Dogecoin mining machines in exchange for equity in the company.

In his fourth day at the job, new SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said he anticipates "huge benefits" from digital assets.

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The product will be built using Bridge, the stablecoin services unit Stripe acquired in October 2024 for $1.1 billion.

Gitcoin is shutting down its primary software development unit, Gitcoin Labs, largely due to a lack of profitability, the project said Friday.

A shelf offering allows a company to register for a new securities issuance to offer equity and debt sales over time. 

Spot bitcoin ETFs had their second-best week of all time, as rising crypto prices led to strong inflows to both BTC and ETH funds.

Earlier reports had indicated that Nvidia terminated the partnership, but the Arbitrum Foundation said it was its decision to pull out.

The platform is working with law enforcement and security professionals to evaluate the exploit and attempt to recover the funds, Loopscale said.

The first XRP futures ETF launched earlier this month, though approval of a spot XRP ETF has yet to come from the SEC.

The exchange is still investigating the "abnormal" trading activity from last weekend, and promises to distribute any recovered funds back to users.

Another DeFi protocol, Impermax, was also attacked on Saturday, adding to a recent spate of damaging hacks, exploits, and errors.

The Solana-based DeFi protocol said it heard from the exploiter, who is willing to return the exploited funds for a 3,947 SOL bounty.

A suspicious transaction involving approximately 3,520 BTC took place on Sunday, in what ZachXBT believes may be a theft.

Ethereum researcher Dankrad Feist proposed EIP-9698 — suggesting a hundredfold gas limit increase over four years.

Digital assets are becoming an emerging safe haven amid concerns over the impact of U.S. tariffs, Head of Research James Butterfill said.

A group of RTFKT NFT buyers sued Nike for allegedly executing a rug pull after winding down the NFT platform.

Nexo previously exited the U.S. market due to multi-agency investigations and paid $45 million to settle charges with watchdogs.