Payward, the company behind crypto exchange Kraken, is buying Reap Technologies for $600 million using cash and stock valued at $20 billion. Reap Technologies is a Hong Kong fintech firm specializing in stablecoin-powered payment rails and tools that support global business-to-business money movement. The acquisition is its first infrastructure deal in Asia and will support…
Three signals are converging on a single Bitcoin price analysis target of $85,000, and for once, they are not pointing in different directions. Research firm Glassnode has identified what analysts are calling a ‘triple threat’ setup: Bitcoin has broken above critical cost basis levels on-chain, futures funding rates have flipped from negative to neutral, and…
Crypto-friendly gift card platforms are designed to make it very easy to convert digital assets into real purchases. Now more than ever, users are buying gift cards with crypto on CoinsBee to shop online, access global brands, and spend their cryptocurrencies without having to trely on traditional payment methods. It’s one thing to own crypto,…
Grayscale Investments completed its Q1 2026 review of the Grayscale Decentralized Finance Fund and the Grayscale Smart Contract Fund. Summary Grayscale added ENA to its DeFi Fund after removing AERO in the latest quarterly rebalance. UNI and AAVE remain the fund’s largest holdings, while ENA entered as fourth-largest component overall. Smart Contract Fund kept ETH…
Toncoin (TON) extended its rally overnight as markets braced for the second half of Pavel Durov’s seven-step Make TON Great Again (MTONGA) roadmap. The token rose from roughly $1.37 to $2.8 at press time, more than doubling in value shortly after Durov said Telegram had become TON’s largest validator. Source: CoinGecko Toncoin’s rally has pushed…
The lesser-known altcoin just posted a mind-blowing rally of over 300% at one point. The largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea continues to list some smaller altcoins, which almost guarantees an immediate price uptick with double or even triple digits, such as today’s example. Upbit announced hours ago that it plans to list Base…
Samsung SDS has reportedly won a contract to build and operate a token securities platform for the Korea Securities Depository. Summary Samsung SDS will turn KSD’s token securities testbed into a production-ready blockchain platform by 2027. South Korea’s new rules will recognize distributed ledgers as legal securities registries under KSD oversight. The project aligns Samsung’s…
Grant Cardone, who leads Cardone Capital, on Wednesday revealed that the firm recently structured a $235 million real estate deal alongside a $100 million Bitcoin allocation. The announcement came during a fireside discussion at Consensus Miami 2026. The entrepreneur said his Bitcoin-backed real estate model could outperform traditional REITs, short for Real Estate Investment Trusts,…
Cardano is trapped in a range that has resisted every attempt at a clean breakout. Charles Hoskinson, its founder, has spent recent weeks publicly calling Bitcoin “the dumbest and least capable cryptocurrency” and arguing that ADA is the superior long-term investment. Hoskinson’s argument has a coherent logic. Bitcoin, he contends, is programmability-free digital gold, useful…
Is ETH on track for a pump to almost $2,700 next? Although not posting as substantial gains as some other altcoins, Ethereum (ETH) has also headed north amid the overall market revival. In the meantime, many analysts believe that the asset could be gearing up for a big move, while certain indicators support the…
