Bastion’s funding highlights growing tech giant interest in stablecoins, potentially accelerating mainstream adoption and payment system integration. The post Bastion raises $14.6 million in funding backed by Coinbase Ventures, Sony, Samsung, and a16z Crypto appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

IREN (IREN), one of the largest self-operated bitcoin (BTC) miners in the U.S., is breaking away from the pack, and Wall Street is taking notice. Bernstein analysts raised their price target on IREN to $75 from $20, implying about 80% upside, as the miner doubles down on building its...

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 4045.46, up 0.5% (+21.74) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Nineteen of the 20 assets is trading higher. Leaders: DOT (+2.1%) and HBAR...

Stablecoin infrastructure startup Bastion has raised $14.6 million in a new funding round led by Coinbase Ventures, the company said in a press release shared with CoinDesk, bringing its total funding to over $40 million. Bastion builds white-label stablecoin systems that let companies issue digital dollars without writing code...

Canton Network, a blockchain built for regulated finance, has struck a strategic partnership with Chainlink to broaden institutional adoption. The agreement, announced Wednesday, will see Canton integrate Chainlink’s suite of services, including Data Streams, Proof of Reserve, and its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol. Canton has also joined the Chainlink Scale...

Franklin Templeton, the global investment powerhouse managing $1.6 trillion in assets, is expanding its proprietary Benji Technology Platform to the BNB Chain ecosystem. The move amplifies Benji’s institutional-grade tokenization expertise by leveraging BNB Chain’s technological strengths, including its scalable, low-cost infrastructure and high transaction throughput, to create a new...

Crypto has never needed “safe havens.” It needs safe markets. The difference is more than semantics. A safe haven is a place to hide; a safe market is a place to build. Jurisdictions that understand this distinction will be the ones that capture the next significant wave of serious...

Board of directors approves $10 million share buyback program through December 31, 2026 Recently completed its initial $1 million share repurchase of its common stock Strengthens Digital Asset Treasury with 19.106 Bitcoins and approximately 7.5 million Dogecoins LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Thumzup Media Corporation (“Thumzup” or...

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) is down 10% over the past month, raising questions about its near-term upside and the validity of Tom Lee’s lofty upside targets. What Happened: Mechanism Capital founder Andrew Kang argued on X that Lee’s Ethereum thesis is deeply flawed and “financially illiterate.” Kang underpins his rebuttal...

On Wednesday, Sept. 24, the stablecoin market reached a historic milestone, reaching an all-time high of $294.56 billion, according to DeFiLlama....