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Crypto holdings could soon count toward U.S. mortgages under a new directive by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. In a directive issued by FHFA director William J. Pulte on June 25, the agency instructed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie…...

Despite escalating geopolitical risks in the Middle East over the past week, Bitcoin (BTC) has shown remarkable resilience, rebounding strongly from nearly $98,000 on June 21 to slightly above $107,000 at the time of writing. Bitcoins Holds Steady But Warning Signs Emerge Bitcoin’s stability amid heightened tensions between Israel...

Invesco and Galaxy have become the ninth issuer to file for a spot Solana ETF with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. According to a June 26 filing, Invesco and Galaxy’s proposed fund will offer direct exposure to Solana (SOL),…...

Crypto exchange Kraken is expanding its European presence through a Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) license granted by the Central Bank of Ireland. Announced in a June 25 blog post, the license allows the exchange to scale its regulated services…...

Bitcoin BTC is back near $108,000, marking a full recovery from last week’s dip to six figures driven by Middle east tensions, as macro signals turn risk-on and crypto bulls regain technical footing. The market is now betting on a convergence of two trends: dovish Fed commentary and retail’s...

The Trump-affiliated World Liberty Foundation appears to be reversing course on a core promise of its crypto project — making its WLFI token transferrable after initially making it strictly non-transferable (and hence non-tradable). “You asked to make $WLFI transferable — we heard you,” the project’s official X account posted...

Metaplanet, the Japanese hotelier that has been scooping up bitcoin BTC, has become the fifth largest corporate holder of the largest cryptocurrency, racing past Elon Musk’s Tesla. The Tokyo-listed firm bought 1,234 BTC for $133 million at an average price of $107,877. The latest buy has taken Metaplanet’s bitcoin...

Sky Protocol’s decentralized finance network has launched a new institutional-grade credit protocol with a $1 billion investment into tokenized credit. Grove, a DeFi credit infrastructure developed as part of the Sky (SKY) ecosystem, was announced in a press release on…...

Crypto prediction market platform Kalshi has raised $185 million in a Series C round led by Paradigm, reaching a $2 billion post-money valuation. “People choose to work at Kalshi not because of the money we’ve raised, but because of our ambition: build the most important financial market on the...

Ripple’s backstory just got a little twist. According to a set of emails from 2014, early notes on what became Ripple go as far back as 2004. That’s four years before Satoshi Nakamoto put out the Bitcoin whitepaper. These emails, shared by XRP community figure SMOQE, feature comments from...