The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) has granted VALR, Africa’s leading provider of digital asset infrastructure, provisional approval to function as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP). This achievement gives VALR provisional authority to provide a wide range of services, such as: A key component of VALR’s worldwide expansion plan, this approval puts the company
On Monday, Asian stock markets rose, which helped push Bitcoin up a little, thanks to a precipitous drop in oil prices. As of this writing, the top cryptocurrency by market cap was trading around $77,400, an increase of 0.43% over the last 24 hours, as reported by CMC. There, bitcoin
The US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund market is about to see net outflows for the year after six days of withdrawals that began on Friday. After Friday’s market loss of $105.2 million—$68.9 million for BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) and $36.3 million for Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC)—net inflows
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, addressed the rising concerns leveled against the Ethereum Foundation, arguing that it should do more to promote and maintain token pricing. According to Buterin, the Foundation will stick to its stated goals of supporting decentralization of the Ethereum Protocol, open source software code, cybersecurity, long-range
Researchers at AmericanFortress™ deliver an formally proven upgrade route for the wallet infrastructure that is now in use by hundreds of millions of users. Sheridan, WY: Today, AmericanFortress™ published a cryptographic paper outlining a patent-pending post-quantum signature strategy for hierarchical deterministic wallets, which are the foundation of almost all current cryptocurrency wallets. Without
General Tensor and Talisman Wallet have announced a major partnership to simplify the way users and institutions interact with Bittensor while laying the groundwork for what they describe as an “agent-ready” financial infrastructure stack. The collaboration combines Talisman’s wallet and multi-signature technology with General Tensor’s validator operations, mining infrastructure, subnet
Solayer, a high-performance Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, has launched public testing for its flagship multi-asset perpetual trading platform, Margin Trade. Solayer opens Margin Trade to public testing Built by a team at Solayer Labs, and former traders with backgrounds at Citadel and Kraken, Margin Trade offers unified
Coins.ph announced the addition of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) to its QRPh cryptocurrency payment feature, expanding a system that currently allows customers to pay retailers throughout the country using stablecoins like USDT. By scanning the national QR code standard created by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the integration
Bybit, the second-biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world based on trading volume, has upgraded its account architecture and introduced AI Sub-Accounts to further facilitate the adoption of AI and provide users with more control over their AI agents. The dedicated account type is a component of a security framework intended to safeguard
In order to provide customers with early market exposure to well-known private firms prior to their initial public offerings (IPOs), Binance today announced the availability of perpetual futures contracts. The new offering gives customers access to one of the most highly followed events in international markets by allowing them to take
