Bitcoin Magazine Trezor Academy Releases Documentary on Africa’s Bitcoin Economy, Opens Education Donations While Western financial media has spent much of 2026 tracking Bitcoin’s crash from its October 2025 all-time high near $126,000, Trezor Academy has released a documentary that documents a different story.  Seeding Bitcoin: Trezor Academy and Africa’s Bitcoin Revolution follows educators, merchants,…

Aave governance is weighing a proposal to bring savings GHO, or sGHO, across chains, a move that could make the protocol’s yield-bearing stablecoin product easier to access beyond Ethereum mainnet. TL;DR Aave governance is considering an ARFC proposal to launch sGHO cross-chain. The proposal uses Chainlink CCIP while keeping Ethereum mainnet as the main source…

Bitcoin miners significantly increased their transfers to Binance during June. Data suggests that the total miner inflows to the exchange have surpassed 150,000 BTC. According to CryptoQuant, the figure marks the highest level of miner deposits to Binance in more than four months and points to a sharp rise in activity from wallets associated with…

Ripple’s dollar-backed RLUSD stablecoin is now available in Japan through SBI VC Trade, adding a regulated Asian market to Ripple’s stablecoin push. TL;DR Ripple says RLUSD is live in Japan following regulatory approval. SBI VC Trade is the distribution route for the launch. The rollout gives Ripple a regulated Asian stablecoin foothold while competition in…

Bitcoin Magazine Matt Corallo Urges Bitcoin Projects to Exit GitHub After Rust Lightning Ban GitHub has been the home to Bitcoin Core and many other software projects in the Bitcoin industry for over a decade, but it was not the first collaborative version control platform to host the digital currency’s code, and it may not…

The self-proclaimed Dogecoin killer followed the red wave sweeping through the broader crypto market, with its price collapsing to its lowest level since May 2021. In a sudden twist of events, though, it reclaimed its position as the second-biggest meme coin. Trailing Behind DOGE Again SHIB has slipped by another 15% over the past week…

The American Arbitration Association’s Legal Context Protocol is being pitched as a legal wrapper for autonomous AI agent payments and commercial transactions. TL;DR AAA has introduced a Legal Context Protocol for AI and agentic commerce. The idea is to attach legal terms and dispute pathways to autonomous transactions. The development matters as AI agents begin…

Bitcoin Magazine Perception Exits Beta With Four Digital Asset Integrations Perception, a real-time narrative intelligence platform for digital asset firms, has exited beta and announced integrations with BitGo (NYSE: BTGO), Swan, Relai, and Bitcoin Well (TSX.V: BTCW). The four companies embedded Perception’s data layer into their internal AI workflows during the beta period, ahead of…

According to analyst Shanaka Anslem Perera, the story everyone has been telling about Bitcoin (BTC) this year, that big money fled to gold and left crypto behind, is wrong. He laid out the actual flow of data in a post on X, showing how the picture is considerably different from what the rotation narrative suggests.…

TRM Labs says CoinEx processed billions in Iran-linked crypto flows, putting exchange compliance and sanctions screening back under the spotlight. TL;DR TRM Labs traced $3.84 billion in Iran-linked activity through CoinEx. The report links the flows to sanctioned entities and Iranian exchange infrastructure. The finding adds pressure on offshore exchanges as sanctions enforcement expands across…

Polish-founded crypto exchange Kanga has reportedly secured a Latvian MiCA license, giving the company a regulatory route to offer crypto-asset services across the European Union under the bloc’s new unified framework. TL;DR Kanga has reportedly obtained a Class 3 MiCA license in Latvia. The authorization could allow the exchange to passport services across all 27…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitplanet Signs Agreement with Antalpha to Launch Bitcoin Mining Operations Bitplanet Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nasdaq-listed fintech company Antalpha and its mining ecosystem partners to enter the Bitcoin mining business, the company announced. Under the agreement, Bitplanet will deploy KRW 15 billion (approximately $10.8 million) in Bitcoin mining equipment…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Mining Pool DMND Mines First Known Stratum V2 Block; GoMining Constructs Its Own Template Bitcoin mining pool DMND has mined the first known Bitcoin block produced using the Stratum V2 protocol, a technical milestone that shifts control over block construction from pools to individual miners. The block — number 955,318 — was…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Flash Crashes from $61,000 to $58,000 as Market Waits For Support Bitcoin price plunged to an intraday low of approximately $58,000 Thursday morning before staging a partial recovery, as a bear market that began after October’s all-time high shows no clear signs of exhaustion — and a closely watched long-term valuation…

Bitcoin Magazine SBI Holdings Agrees to Acquire Japanese Crypto Exchange Bitbank in $288.6 Million Deal SBI Holdings has signed agreements to acquire all shares of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitbank in a deal valued at 46.7 billion yen, or approximately $288.6 million, the companies announced on June 24.  The transaction will make Bitbank a wholly owned…

It’s another painful day in the cryptocurrency markets, especially for the altcoins. Ethereum, which traded at roughly $1,800 just over a week ago, tumbled toward $1,500, but it’s yet to break its negative June record, at least for now. In contrast, Ripple’s XRP has been at the forefront of the latest declines. The token plunged…

Grayscale says several revenue-generating crypto protocols may be trading at attractive valuations as regulatory clarity becomes a bigger market catalyst. TL;DR Grayscale has highlighted revenue-generating crypto protocols as potentially attractively valued. The list includes DeFi and infrastructure names tied to real usage and fee generation. The report links the valuation debate to possible US regulatory…

In what appears to be a repeat of yesterday’s developments, bitcoin’s price has headed south once again, but this time it even plunged below $59,000 for the first time in nearly two years. With no other major catalysts known at the moment, all roads seem to be leading today to Michael Saylor’s Strategy and the…

The leading cryptocurrency has been in a clear decline lately, with the downturn intensifying over the past 24 hours as the price briefly tumbled below $60,000 for the second time this month. As expected, the latest pullback has prompted a wave of doomsday predictions, with some claiming that bitcoin is “going to zero.” The popular…

ICE and OKX’s tokenized assets joint venture points to a deeper push by traditional exchange infrastructure into tokenized equities and real-world assets. TL;DR ICE and OKX have announced a joint venture focused on tokenized assets. The tie-up targets tokenized exposure to listed equities and other financial products. The move shows how traditional exchange infrastructure is…

Bitcoin’s drop toward the $59,000 area triggered a fresh leverage flush, with CoinGlass data showing heavy futures liquidations across the crypto market. TL;DR Bitcoin briefly pushed below the closely watched $60,000 level. CoinGlass data showed crypto liquidations swelling above $1 billion during the move. The flush keeps attention on leverage, ETF flows and options positioning.…

Jiang Zhuoer, co-founder of BTC.TOP mining pool, on June 25 published a long-term prediction for Bitcoin (BTC), saying it could bottom between $42,000 and $44,000 sometime in the October-to-December 2026 window. Jiang made the call while the OG cryptocurrency was trading near $62,000, down about 51% from its all-time high above $126,000, which was set…

House Democrats are pressing the SEC on AI-powered investment advisers, highlighting regulatory anxiety around automated financial advice and algorithmic conflicts. TL;DR Lawmakers are asking the SEC how it supervises AI-based investment advice. The concerns include hallucinations, conflicts of interest and consumer safeguards. The issue overlaps with crypto trading bots and automated portfolio tools. AI Financial…

The veteran US exchange has tapped the 2019-founded Maple, one of the largest on-chain institutional asset management platforms with TradFi and crypto experience, to introduce a lending structure commonly used in traditional finance to blockchain-based markets. It will be denominated in USDC and will support Kraken’s over-the-counter (OTC) lending business by enabling institutional clients to…