Kraken bought Small Exchange for $32.5 million in cash and $67.5 million in stock, IG announced on Thursday

In the 20th century, investors who understood energy shaped industries and built massive fortunes. This century, the commodity that matters most is compute, whether you’re mining bitcoin or training AI models, writes HIVE Blockchain Technologies’ Frank Holmes.

Stellar’s native token weathered sharp intraday swings, buoyed by strong institutional demand and surging volumes tied to WisdomTree’s new crypto ETP

Roughly $12 billion in futures positions were wiped out on Friday, marking a major shift in market structure and potentially signaling a bottom.

Erebor can operate as a national bank in the U.S., according to a charter approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

The partnership will utilize Aptos\\\' layer-1 blockchain to distribute digital rewards, with a focus on real-world utility rather than speculation.

CEO Brad Garlinghouse, whose company is seeking a federal bank license and Federal Reserve \\\"master account,\\\" called banker pushback \\\"hypocritical.\\\"

Also: ETH’s Sepolia Gets Fusaka Upgrade, Monero Releases Privacy Boost For Nodes and EF Expands Its Push Into Privacy.

The firm said it sees a \\\"sustained imbalance\\\" between demand and supply of AI computing power, and projected to generate up to $2 billion annually from AI operations.

The crypto exchange is integrating Superstate’s Opening Bell platform to offer natively tokenized public equities for investors outside the U.S.

Supply has surged 72% year-over-year, led by Ethereum, Solana, and Plasma’s record debut, as stablecoins begin to mirror core banking functions

Strategy is the world\\\'s largest publicly-listed BTC holder.

The acquisition marks the first move by the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership, which plans to deploy up to $100 billion.

NEAR Protocol (NEAR) was also an underperformer, falling 2.8% from Tuesday.

If approved, these would become some of the most extreme crypto-linked instruments available to U.S. investors.