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DeFi Development acquires nearly $15 million in SOL, pushing Solana holdings above 2 million tokens

DeFi Development acquires nearly $15 million in SOL, pushing Solana holdings above 2 million tokens

DeFi Development Corp. (ticker DFDV) has acquired an additional 62,745 SOL, valued at approximately $14.6 million at today's prices.This bumps the company’s total holdings of SOL to over 2 million SOL, worth nearly $500 million, according to The Block’s price page.With about 25 million shares outsta…

Nasdaq-listed crypto treasury GD Culture to add 7,500 BTC after Pallas Capital acquisition closes

Nasdaq-listed crypto treasury GD Culture to add 7,500 BTC after Pallas Capital acquisition closes

Nasdaq-listed GD Culture Group Limited (ticker GDC) will add 7,500 bitcoins to its "long-term digital asset reserve" once its acquisition of Pallas Capital is finalized, the firm disclosed on Wednesday.Those bitcoins are worth around $876 million at current prices, according to The Block’s price pag…

Forward Industries doubles down on Solana strategy with $4 billion equity offering

Forward Industries doubles down on Solana strategy with $4 billion equity offering

Forward Industries (FORD), a Nasdaq-listed design firm that has repositioned itself as a Solana-focused corporate treasury, said it filed a $4 billion at-the-market equity offering program with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise more capital for SOL accumulation, according to a pre…

Bitcoin and Ethereum prices remain steady as traders brace for Fed rate cut

Bitcoin and Ethereum prices remain steady as traders brace for Fed rate cut

Bitcoin and Ethereum prices were little changed on Tuesday as traders set up for the Federal Reserve’s rate decision on Wednesday, a closely watched call that analysts say could reset risk appetite into year-end.Matt Mena, crypto research strategist at 21Shares, called the meeting less about whether…

Ethereum stablecoin supply hits record $166 billion, bolstering role as DeFi’s settlement base

Ethereum stablecoin supply hits record $166 billion, bolstering role as DeFi’s settlement base

Ethereum's total stablecoin supply has climbed to a record $166 billion, underscoring growing confidence in the network’s role as a core DeFi infrastructure.The Block's data dashboard shows that the total stablecoin supply on Ethereum reached $166 billion as of Saturday, up from $149.5 billion a mon…

Shibarium bridge suffers ā€˜sophisticated’ flash loan attack, with $2.4 million drained

Shibarium bridge suffers ā€˜sophisticated’ flash loan attack, with $2.4 million drained

The Shibarium bridge, which connects the Layer 2 network by the same name to Ethereum, was targeted by a flash loan attack on Friday, which drained $2.4 million in ETH and SHIB and led Shiba Inu developers to restrict certain activities on the network.Ā The attacker borrowed 4.6 million BONE tokens, …

Kraken expands xStocks offering to Europe as tokenized stocks gain steam

Kraken expands xStocks offering to Europe as tokenized stocks gain steam

Kraken is expanding xStocks to European customers as demand for tokenized equities grows larger."For too long, it's been unnecessarily challenging to gain exposure to U.S. markets, and with xStocks we're removing many of the barriers," said Kraken's Global Head of Consumer Mark Greenberg.Kraken said…

Linea experiences temporary downtime ahead of token generation event

Linea experiences temporary downtime ahead of token generation event

Linea resumed block production after a temporary outage affecting its mainnet sequencer early morning on Wednesday.The Consensys-backed Ethereum Layer 2 network halted block production at approximately 1:25 a.m. ET on Wednesday, after producing block 23145386. Block production resumed at 2:32 a.m. E…

Metaplanet buys $15 million in bitcoin, total holdings now at 20,136 BTC

Metaplanet buys $15 million in bitcoin, total holdings now at 20,136 BTC

Japanese bitcoin treasury firm Metaplanet announced Monday that it acquired an additional 136 BTC for roughly $15.2 million, as the company remains bullish on the world's largest cryptocurrency.In a Monday post on X, Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich said that the latest purchase of 136 BTC was made at …

Bukele says El Salvador purchased $2.3 million in BTC to mark bitcoin law anniversary

Bukele says El Salvador purchased $2.3 million in BTC to mark bitcoin law anniversary

El Salvador purchased 21 BTC, worth roughly $2.3 million, in celebration of the fourth anniversary of its bitcoin law, according to President Nayib Bukele."Buying 21 bitcoin for Bitcoin Day," Bukele said on Sunday in a post on X. The nation started to recognize bitcoin as its legal tender in Septemb…

Polymarket hits all-time high for new markets created as platform eyes US return

Polymarket hits all-time high for new markets created as platform eyes US return

As Polymarket gears up for a return to the United States, the predictions markets platform hit a milestone last month.The number of new markets on a monthly basis reached 13,800 in August, blowing past the previous record from July by about 2,000 markets. Markets represent individual events that use…

Etherscan expands to Sei with launch of Seiscan block explorer

Etherscan expands to Sei with launch of Seiscan block explorer

Etherscan, the leading block explorer for Ethereum and other Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible chains, has launched Seiscan, a dedicated version for the Sei Network.The launch brings Sei developers and users access to Etherscan’s analytics and API services, which handle more than a billion d…