Cryptocurrency

Japan’s publicly-listed early-stage investment firm Metaplanet Inc. announced its inclusion in the CoinShares Blockchain Global Equity Index (BLOCK Index), a globally recognized benchmark tracking the top public companies in blockchain and crypto. The inclusion in the CoinShares BLOCK Index marks Metaplanet’s debut in a high-profile blockchain equity index, the company’s CEO, Simon Gerovich, announced Monday. […]

The State of Michigan Retirement System, overseeing $13.6 billion in pension fund assets, has begun diversifying its crypto holdings following its foray into the asset class earlier this year. In a 13-F disclosure filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the state fund revealed it has picked up $10 million worth of shares from

Although Bitcoin won’t be on the ballot this Election Day, it’s hard to deny digital assets’ grip on U.S. politics this election cycle.   From U.S. congressmen’s public powwows with crypto industry leaders to Trump’s DeFi project launch to both presidential candidates’ promises to support new regulations for the digital assets industry, crypto has dominated mainstream

In brief Leading AI models were again asked who would win the U.S. presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The AI models used real-time information and advanced prompt engineering to analyze the candidates’ odds of winning. While early inquiries suggest Trump would win, AI is now leaning towards Harris to win on Tuesday.

Japan’s SBI Digital Markets has strengthened its role in the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Project Guardian, unveiling new pilots aimed at advancing the use of tokenized securities in global markets.  In collaboration with leading financial institutions, the SBI Group subsidiary is developing a cross-border framework for tokenized assets, connecting regulated digital asset exchanges across

As the U.S. presidential election barrels toward an inflection point, millions of dollars in bets on the White House’s winner will soon be settled through the ballot box—in theory, at least. For months, the growing popularity of prediction platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi has positioned Election Day as a high-stakes betting spectacle. And their rise

A UK pension fund has put Bitcoin on its balance sheet—in the first move of its kind in the country. Pensions advisory firm Cartwright announced Monday that it had told an unnamed client in the UK to make a 3% allocation to the leading cryptocurrency.  The firm said that it made the recommendation because of

Telegram game Tomarket revealed airdrop allocations to players on Friday ahead of an impending TOMA token listing, but many players complained that they had been banned for alleged cheating—and claimed that they hadn’t done so. After saying that it would look into any such reports this week, the Tomarket development team announced Tuesday that it

The 2024 presidential election has yet to even happen—and the crypto industry is already training its crosshairs on 2026.  On Monday, the crypto super PAC Fairshake, which has already raised some $300 million to influence the outcome of tomorrow’s U.S. elections, announced that it has raised an additional $78 million to support pro-crypto candidates in

The price of Bitcoin will still go up substantially in the next year, whoever wins the U.S. election, according to Bernstein analysts. But it may experience some shock at first. That’s per a new report by analysts at the global investment firm. Analysts Gautam Chhugani, Mahika Sapra, and Sanskar Chindalia said in a Monday report that the