USDT Issuer Seeks Full Takeover, Invest $1B in Football Club

Tether, the crypto firm behind the world’s largest stablecoin, USDT USDT$1.0001, is aiming to acquire popular Italian football club Juventus FC, boosting its minority stake to 100%. The firm said Friday that it has submitted a binding proposal for majority shareholder Exor’s 65.4% stake in the club in an all-cash offer, according to a Friday…

Bitcoin Miners Turn to Renewables As Hash Price Hovers Near Record Lows

Bitcoin mining companies are turning to renewable energy to reduce costs amid record-low hash price, a critical metric for miner profitability, which is below the $40 level that marks the breakeven point for mining operators. Hash price, which measures expected miner profitability per unit of computing power used to successfully add a block, is about…

BTC Short-Term Holders Were Profitable For 66% of 2025

Bitcoin’s (BTC) short-term holders (STHs) have spent 229 out of 345 days in profit, an outcome that appears contradictory given that BTC is at a negative year-to-date (YTD) return and struggles to trade above $100,000.  However, beneath the weak headline performance, the structure of onchain positioning tells a different story. Key takeaways: Bitcoin short-term holders…

SOL Slumps As TVL Slides And Memecoin Demand Fades

Key takeaways: SOL funding rates signal low bullish conviction after a 46% price drop, despite Firedancer’s launch and rising Solana network transactions. Solana DApp revenues and DEX activity have weakened sharply, suggesting broader market fatigue even as Solana’s ecosystem grows. Solana’s native token, SOL (SOL), has failed to sustain prices above $145 for the past…

TIX Emerges From Stealth to Bring DeFi Lending to Live Event Ticketing

TIX, a settlement layer for the live-events industry, has emerged from stealth to apply decentralized finance (DeFi) lending and onchain settlement to a sector that has long functioned like a private credit market. To date, the TIX network has facilitated over $8 million in ticket sales and generated approximately $2 million in venue financing. The…

Bitcoin Tops $94K, ‘Netscape’ Moment For Crypto

Cryptocurrency markets saw another week of downside, as investors eagerly anticipated the year’s last Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. Bitcoin (BTC) rose to a weekly high of $94,330 on Tuesday as investor morale was bolstered by Strategy’s $962 million Bitcoin acquisition, the company’s largest investment since July 2025. On Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve…

Bitnomial Wins CFTC Approval to Launch Regulated Prediction Markets

Bitnomial Clearinghouse LLC received approval from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to clear fully collateralized swaps, enabling its parent company, Bitnomial, to launch prediction markets and offer clearing services to other platforms. According to Friday’s announcement, Bitnomial’s prediction market will cover crypto and economic events, alongside its existing Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto derivatives…

Bitcoin Has No Value Beyond Financial Speculation

Bitcoin is a purely speculative asset and is akin to a collectible toy, according to John Ameriks, the global head of quantitative equity at asset management company Vanguard. “It’s difficult for me to think about Bitcoin as anything more than a digital Labubu,” Ameriks said at Bloomberg’s ETFs in Depth conference in New York City….

SOL Slumps As TVL Slides And Memecoin Demand Fades

Key takeaways: SOL funding rates signal low bullish conviction after a 46% price drop, despite Firedancer’s launch and rising Solana network transactions. Solana DApp revenues and DEX activity have weakened sharply, suggesting broader market fatigue even as Solana’s ecosystem grows. Solana’s native token, SOL (SOL), has failed to sustain prices above $145 for the past…

Citadel Securities and DeFi Waging War of Words Through SEC Correspondence

After a 13-page letter from investment powerhouse Citadel Securities advised the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols handling tokenized securities demand a closer regulatory grip, the industry answered back with its own correspondence on Friday, calling the arguments “baseless.” “While we share Citadel’s aims with respect to investor protections, orderly markets,…