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• MSCI’s Bitcoin snub is like penalizing Chevron for oil: Strategy CEO
  The MSCI Index is consulting on whether to exclude Bitcoin and other digital asset treasury companies that have a balance sheet with more than 50% of their assets in crypto. Stock market index MSCI’s proposed exclusion of companies holding more than 50% of their crypto on their balance sheets would be akin to pushing out […]
• CFTC Innovation Council adds prediction market, exchange CEOs
  The CFTC's new CEO Innovation Council includes leaders from crypto exchanges like Kraken and traditional stock exchanges such as Nasdaq to discuss market structure reforms. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has added a host of blockchain industry executives alongside counterparts from traditional finance as part of the agency’s new CEO Innovation Council. According to an […]
• Payments giant Stripe acquires team from crypto wallet app Valora
  Stripe has hired Valora’s builders to work on its crypto initiatives, as the wallet’s app shifts ownership back to Celo’s cLabs.  Payments giant Stripe has acquired the team from crypto wallet firm Valora, just a day after launching its testnet for its stablecoin-focused blockchain project Tempo.  According to Valora CEO Jackie Bona, the acquisition will see […]
• Gemini soars 14% as new license opens door to US prediction markets
  An affiliate of the crypto exchange Gemini received a designated contract market license, and it now plans to offer prediction markets in the US. Crypto exchange Gemini, founded by billionaire twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, has scored a license from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to offer prediction markets in the US.Gemini said on Wednesday […]
• Crypto among sectors ‘debanked’ by 9 major banks: US regulator
  The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said crypto was one of many industries that banks had denied services to, and it could refer its findings to the Justice Department. The nine largest US banks restricted financial services to politically contentious industries, including cryptocurrency, between 2020 and 2023, according to the preliminary findings of […]
• Survey finds 6 in 10 of Asia’s rich plan to ramp up crypto buying
  Sygnum’s APAC HNWI Report 2025 found that 87% of Asia’s high-net-worth individuals are already exposed to crypto, with an average allocation of approximately 17%. More than half of wealthy Asian investors in a recent survey say they plan to increase their portfolio exposure to cryptocurrency over the next few years. Sygnum’s APAC HNWI Report 2025 […]
• Here’s what happened in crypto today
  Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation. Today in crypto: A US regulator found major US banks debanked the crypto sector, Strategy responded to MSCI’s plan to exclude crypto treasuries from its indexes and […]