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Ault Capital Rolls Out Public Testnet for Finance-Focused Ault Blockchain

Ault Capital Rolls Out Public Testnet for Finance-Focused Ault Blockchain

Ault Capital Group has launched the public testnet for Ault Blockchain, a Cosmos SDK Layer 1 with full Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility built for trading, settlement, and institutional onchain workloads. The testnet provides a live environment for developers, validators, and infrastructure operators to assess core functionality. Governance wi…

Bitfury Founder Val Vavilov Adds to Bitcoin Holdings as Prices Slide

Bitfury Founder Val Vavilov Adds to Bitcoin Holdings as Prices Slide

Val Vavilov, the 46-year-old Latvian founder of Bitfury, has been buying Bitcoin during the recent price decline, describing the pullback as a chance to rebalance his company's portfolio. Bitcoin dipped below $67,000 in Asian trading and has lost more than half its value since October, prompting concern among retail investors and a range of reactio…

Fasanara Digital Allocates to Solstice’s YieldVault as Institutional Interest in Solana Yield Grows

Fasanara Digital Allocates to Solstice’s YieldVault as Institutional Interest in Solana Yield Grows

Solstice Labs announced that Fasanara Digital, the digital-assets division of Fasanara Capital, has deployed capital to YieldVault, the protocol’s flagship delta-neutral yield strategy on Solana. The move adds a second institutional allocator to the platform alongside Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp (DFDV). The decision reflects alignment betwe…

Bitcoin Slides Under $67,000 as Markets Brace for Delayed U.S. Jobs Report

Bitcoin Slides Under $67,000 as Markets Brace for Delayed U.S. Jobs Report

Bitcoin fell below $67,000 in Asian trading Wednesday as investors awaited a delayed U.S. employment report that could influence Federal Reserve policy expectations. The world's largest cryptocurrency traded 2.6% lower at $67,126.7 by 02:46 ET (07:46 GMT). Broader crypto market weakness accompanied disappointing revenue for Robinhood Markets, where…

Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks New Trial, Citing Potential New Witness Testimony

Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks New Trial, Citing Potential New Witness Testimony

Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has filed a pro se motion seeking a new trial. The filing, dated February 5 and docketed this week in Manhattan federal court, contends that newly available witness testimony could undermine the prosecution's case. Bankman-Fried is currently serving a 25-year prison sentenc…

NOWPayments Waives Network Fees on USDT TRC20 Deposits for New Merchants

NOWPayments Waives Network Fees on USDT TRC20 Deposits for New Merchants

<p>NOWPayments has launched a time-limited promotion that removes network fees for USDT (TRC20) deposits for newly registered partners. Merchants must register and enable the platform's Custody feature to qualify, which also unlocks mass payout and off-chain conversion tools. The offer lasts for two months and is intended to lower the cost barrier …

Bitcoin Surges Back Above $70,000 as Market Sees Short-Lived Rally

Bitcoin Surges Back Above $70,000 as Market Sees Short-Lived Rally

Bitcoin climbed sharply on Friday, briefly reclaiming the $70,000 threshold and trading at about $70,826.9 as of 14:53 ET (19:53 GMT). The rally followed a period of steep declines triggered by an October 2025 flash crash and intensified after the nomination of Kevin Warsh, which pushed bitcoin to a 16-month low of $60,187.0. Despite the bounce, th…

ZenO Opens Public Beta to Gather First-Person Audio-Visual Data for Physical AI, Built on Story Blockchain

ZenO Opens Public Beta to Gather First-Person Audio-Visual Data for Physical AI, Built on Story Blockchain

ZenO has begun a public beta to collect, anonymize, and structure first-person audio, video, and image data from smart glasses and smartphones to support the training of physical AI systems. The platform leverages Story's Layer-1 blockchain technology for onchain consent and provenance tracking, and the company is participating in the NVIDIA Incept…

Ethereum Sinks 10% in One-Day Slide, Market Caps Shrink Across Crypto

Ethereum Sinks 10% in One-Day Slide, Market Caps Shrink Across Crypto

Ethereum fell sharply on Thursday, trading at $1,935.42 by 10:30 (15:30 GMT) and recording a one-day decline of 10.06%. The move reduced Ether’s market capitalization to $242.09 billion and coincided with losses across major tokens, including Bitcoin. Weekly drops left Ethereum down nearly 29% over seven days and roughly 61% below its August 24, 20…

Bitcoin tumbles to 15-month low as global markets undergo broad selloff

Bitcoin tumbles to 15-month low as global markets undergo broad selloff

Bitcoin fell to about $72,000, its weakest level in 15 months, as a market-wide decline pushed investors to liquidate positions. The cryptocurrency dropped as much as 5.4%, extending losses from earlier, crypto-focused liquidations and coinciding with a broader pullback in global equities, including a more than 2% slide in the Nasdaq 100 that hit s…

Analysis: Paid crypto press releases heavily tied to high-risk and fraudulent projects, Chainstory finds

Analysis: Paid crypto press releases heavily tied to high-risk and fraudulent projects, Chainstory finds

A Chainstory analysis of roughly 2,900 cryptocurrency press releases published over a four-month span found that about 62% originated from projects labeled high risk or fraudulent. The study highlights a pay-to-play distribution model, heavy use of promotional language, and a concentration of dubious issuers in sectors such as cloud mining and frin…