Nadia Rahman is CoinScoop's Markets Editor. She covers Bitcoin, macro liquidity and the spot-ETF complex, and previously reported on rates and FX for a global newswire.
Prediction market traders on Polymarket and Myriad have pushed July Fed rate-hike odds to 27% in 24 hours, rattling a crypto market already sitting at Fear & Greed 30.
Circle, the USDC stablecoin issuer, is acquiring IBM's blockchain patent portfolio — nearly 1,000 patents across 680+ families — ahead of its planned IPO.
Bitmine is closing in on controlling 5% of Ethereum's circulating supply with an $11.8B treasury — raising serious questions about ETH centralization.
Empery Digital has invested $20M in AI data center developer Cardinal Data Power, funded by an $87M Bitcoin liquidation — a structural exit from the BTC treasury model.
South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank is launching USD cross-border payments on JPMorgan's Kinexys blockchain, targeting import/export businesses across 10 countries.
Sanctioned Sberbank aims to launch crypto trading infrastructure by December 1 as Russia's crypto bill advances — raising serious secondary-sanctions questions.
Storj has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy while keeping its decentralized storage network live and pursuing a novel court-approved equity conversion for STORJ tokenholders.
Total crypto market cap recovers to $2.31T with Ethereum up 3.5% in 24 hours, but a Fear & Greed Index of 30 keeps the bounce tentative. Full market wrap.
Alpaca Finance custodies $1.5B in shares backing 94% of tokenized equities — exposing a deep irony as the DTCC prepares its own tokenization service.
The CFTC has issued its second 2026 warning to prediction markets over boilerplate self-certifications, raising the prospect of enforcement against Kalshi, Polymarket and others.
