Apr 24, 20264m 24s
Metaplanet Raises $50M in Zero-Interest Bonds to Buy More Bitcoin
Tokyo-listed Metaplanet raised $50 million in zero-coupon bonds, with proceeds earmarked for additional bitcoin purchases as BTC trades near $77.7K.
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Apr 24, 20264m 38s
Tether Minted 3B USDT in a Week, Abraxas Capital Got 2.89B
Tether minted 3 billion USDT in the past week and on-chain data shows Abraxas Capital received 2.89B of it, a 96% concentration in one recipient.
Apr 24, 20264m 28s
Bitcoin ETFs Absorbed 18,991 BTC in 5 Days, 9x New Supply
US spot Bitcoin ETFs soaked up 18,991 BTC over five trading days, nine times the new coins mined in the same window, per Bitwise data cited April 24, 2026.
Apr 24, 20264m 44s
Morgan Stanley Positions to Manage Reserves for the Stablecoin Industry
Morgan Stanley is pitching itself as the go-to reserve manager for stablecoin issuers, targeting a fee pool that Tether and Circle currently keep in-house.
Apr 24, 20264m 44s
Active RWA Market Cap Hits $25.2B, Up 5x in a Year
Tokenized real-world assets on-chain have grown fivefold from $4.1B to $25.2B in just over a year, according to new data Cointelegraph flagged.
Apr 24, 20264m 44s
Jane Street Moves to Dismiss Terraform Labs' Insider Trading Suit Over UST
Jane Street has filed to dismiss Terraform Labs' insider trading lawsuit tied to the May 2022 UST depeg and LUNA collapse that erased roughly $40B.
Apr 24, 20264m 44s
TON to Cut Transaction Fees 6x in One Week, Durov Says
Telegram founder Pavel Durov says TON transaction fees will drop 6x within a week, sharpening the network's pitch as a cheap payments rail.
Apr 24, 20265m 05s
OKX Lists Tempo, the Stripe and Paradigm-Incubated L1, for Global Trading
OKX has gone live with trading for Tempo, a new payments-focused L1 incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, putting the chain in front of millions of traders.
Apr 24, 20264m 06s
Army Soldier Charged for Using Classified Intel on Polymarket Bets
Federal prosecutors charge a US Army soldier with using classified Venezuela intelligence to win over $400,000 betting on Polymarket outcome markets.
Apr 24, 20264m 28s
Mantle Offers 30,000 ETH Loan to Aave to Cover KelpDAO Bad Debt
Mantle's core team proposes lending 30,000 ETH from its treasury to Aave DAO to absorb the $292M rsETH bridge exploit losses from April 18.