Crypto
Georgia targets illegal crypto mining in Mestia crackdown: Report
Georgia will reportedly install electricity meters across Mestia to curb illegal crypto mining after officials blamed miners for grid strain and outages.
Kaiko acquires Amberdata in blockchain data consolidation push
Kaiko acquired Amberdata to expand its institutional crypto data platform with derivatives analytics, onchain tools and AI-powered research.
HIVE Bitcoin holdings drop by 331 BTC in Q1, reports record $298M revenue
HIVE reduced its Bitcoin holdings to 150 BTC while annual revenue climbed to $297.8 million, driven by growth in mining and AI computing.
Franklin Templeton teams up with MoonPay to let big investors swap stablecoins for yields 24/7
The Wall Street giant is integrating its tech platform with MoonPay's infrastructure, allowing eligible institutions to seamlessly swap stablecoins for yield-generating tokenized funds without ever leaving the blockchain.
Strategy’s bitcoin sale may mark start of ether outperformance, StanChart’s Kendrick says
ETH could outperform BTC by 40% from current levels as bitcoin treasuries may sell assets to cover obligations, the bank's digital asset research head said.
CoinDesk 20 performance update: Stellar (XLM) falls 8.4%, leading index lower
Aave (AAVE), down 3.9% from Monday, was also an underperformer.
Movement pivots to stablecoin payments as the layer-2 boom loses momentum
The team behind Movement said it plans to leverage licensed payment partners alongside blockchain settlement rails to target the roughly $685 billion remittance market serving low and middle-income countries.
EdgeX blames ‘external party’ for token crash as ZachXBT alleges insider manipulation
Onchain investigator ZachXBT claims decentralized exchange edgeX insiders controlled nearly the entire supply with a thin float.