Cryptocurrency
BitGo offers MiCA compliance lifeline to EU crypto firms as license deadline looms
Eligible businesses may also continue to evaluate or pursue their own MiCA-focused crypto asset service provider (CASP) licenses in parallel while integrating BitGo Europe’s infrastructure, BitGo said.The final deadline for crypto firms to have transitioned to the MiCA regime...
Cryptocurrency
Illinois Governor Signs Illinois Budget Including Crypto Tax
Illinois is going ahead with a 0.2% "privilege tax" on crypto transactions involving its residents under a new $55.9 billion state budget bill signed Tuesday.Governor JB Pritzker signed the measure despite opposition from crypto industry groups over the provision,...
Cryptocurrency
Onchain Data Locks In Satoshi’s 1.1M BTC Hoard — 3 Theories on Why It Never Moves
Key TakeawaysResearcher Sergio Lerner’s Patoshi Pattern mapped roughly 1.1M BTC to Satoshi across 22,000 addresses with statistical near-certainty.Satoshi’s last recorded bitcoin transfer was 32.51 BTC to developer Mike Hearn, approximately 16 years ago.If Satoshi’s 5.47% share of the total...
Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin Rallies To $67K As US-Iran Make Peace: Will Both Hold?
Key takeaways:Bitcoin derivatives show weak conviction with 2% futures basis and elevated put options premium signaling caution.Institutional buying via $86 million ETF inflows plus Strategy’s (MSTR US) ongoing accumulation counters market fear.Bitcoin (BTC) jumped above $67,000 after US President...
Business Innovation
Make no mistake: the U.S. now has a licensing regime for frontier AI | Fortune
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…Anthropic scrambles to try to reverse U.S. export controls on its Fable and Mythos models…the U.S. government decision on Anthropic’s models causes panic in Europe over AI sovereignty and delight...
Cryptocurrency
Why US-regulated Bitcoin perpetuals could change crypto trading
How Bitcoin perps are entering regulated US marketsFor years, Bitcoin perpetual futures have ranked among the most important products in crypto trading. They account for a large share of global crypto derivatives activity and are widely used by traders...
Business Innovation
SpaceX just surpassed Amazon’s market cap, overtaking the 31-year-old company on day three of public trading | Fortune
SpaceX, the freshly-IPO’d company that barely has been on the public markets for three days, has already surpassed 31-year-old Amazon in market cap. Not only that, it briefly overtook Microsoft too on Tuesday morning. This is a major pull for...
Cryptocurrency
Ethereum Clear Signing Push Aims To Make Wallet Approvals Safer
Ethereum’s clear signing push is trying to solve one of crypto’s most stubborn user-safety problems: people approving transactions they cannot actually understand.TL;DRThe Ethereum Foundation has highlighted clear signing as part of a broader wallet-safety effort.
The goal is to turn...