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Ripple Labs closed a $500 million strategic funding round in 2025 at a $40 billion valuation, led by Fortress Investment Group and Citadel Securities with participation from Brevan Howard, Marshall Wace, Pantera Capital, and Galaxy Digital.
This came on top of a $1 billion tender offer earlier in the year at the same valuation, providing early shareholders liquidity without the scrutiny of public...
Seven of the top ten miners by hashrate report AI or high-performance computing initiatives already generating revenue, with the other three planning to follow suit.
The shift pairs miners’ energized land and interconnections with contracted revenue from GPU customers, creating a second line of business that competes with running ASICs at full power.
AI partnerships redefine mining economics and...
“OG Bitcoin whales are dumping,” is the overarching narrative surrounding the latest Bitcoin selloff. Yet, amid nonstop chatter that Bitcoin’s earliest supporters are behind its latest price slide, on-chain analyst Willy Woo points to “nuance” in the metrics. On-chain moves don’t tell the full story; the old-guard may not be caving in just yet.
Are OG Bitcoin whales cashing out? The narrative...
In August 2025, Ripple Labs formally closed its years-long battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The company paid a $125 million civil penalty, accepted an injunction on certain institutional XRP sales, and walked away with something more valuable than victory: clarity.
Judge Analisa Torres had already ruled in July 2023 that XRP itself wasn’t inherently a security and that...
Russian entrepreneur Roman Novak, a convicted crypto fraudster, and his wife Anna were abducted and found murdered in the United Arab Emirates, after a plot linked to ransom demands and digital assets went awry.
Roman Novak was well known across St. Petersburg for defrauding investors out of millions from his various crypto ventures. After being sentenced to a six-year prison sentence for large-...
Zcash (ZEC) trades at $676.64 as of press time, marking its highest valuation since January 2018. The privacy-focused cryptocurrency posted a 26% gain in the past 24 hours and a 1,486% surge over the past three months.
The token now ranks as the 18th-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, at $11.2 billion, positioning it near Hyperliquid and above established networks, including Sui,...
Samourai Wallet cofounder Keonne Rodriguez received the maximum sentence this week of five years in prison for writing code. As a developer sits in a jail cell for building privacy tools, many in the Bitcoin community, including Max Keiser, are pushing for a full pardon.
Crypto crackdown: Beyond campaign promises
Donald Trump vowed during his campaign to put an end to the crackdown on crypto. To...