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.
AscendEX, BitMEX, and BitMart have all announced shutdowns within two weeks. What the cluster of CEX closures means for crypto consolidation and Hyperliquid.
Total crypto market cap drops 2.82% to $2.25T as the Fear & Greed Index hits 29. HYPE leads 24h losses at -5.9%, while BTC holds above $63K with 56.3% dominance.
Securitize Capital LLC is now SEC-registered as an investment adviser, adding a fifth regulated function to its tokenized real-world asset platform alongside its broker-dealer and transfer-agent licenses.
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.
