FinTech

American Bitcoin, a bitcoin mining and holding company backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and a subsidiary of publicly-traded Hut 8, raised $220M (fortune.com)
2025-7-2 Trump U.S. Bitcoin

Robinhood announces an expanded offering of tokenized US stocks across Europe, crypto staking in US, a Layer 2 blockchain for real-world asset settlement, more (www.cnbc.com)
2025-7-1 Blockchain Europe Asset

Jim Chanos, who famously shorted Enron, calls Michael Saylor's bitcoin strategy “financial gibberish”, as Saylor inspires several copycats like Trump Media (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-30 Trump Bitcoin

Spinwheel, which helps fintech companies and banks authenticate users, automate data retrieval, and facilitate payments, raised a $30M Series A led by F-Prime (www.axios.com)
2025-6-30 Fintech

Dinari, which offers blockchain-based US stocks, secures a broker-dealer registration to become the first tokenized equity platform to secure approval in the US (www.reuters.com)
2025-6-27 Blockchain Equity

Sources: CoreWeave is in talks to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific, which has a market value of ~$3.7B; Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave's bid in 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-27 Bitcoin

Kraken launches Krak, a P2P payments app that lets users send funds across 110 countries using 300+ assets, including crypto, stablecoins, and fiat currencies (www.coindesk.com)
2025-6-26 P2P Asset

Paris-based Zama, which is developing fully homomorphic encryption tech for blockchain and AI apps, raised a $57M Series B at a $1B+ valuation (tech.eu)
2025-6-25 Blockchain AI Paris

Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, an open-source public blockchain for regulated financial institutions, raised $135M co-led by DRW and Tradeweb (www.cnbc.com)
2025-6-24 Blockchain Asset

Anthony Pompliano's ProCap raised $750M+, including $235M in convertible debt, and is going public via a SPAC; the new firm aims to hold up to $1B in bitcoin (www.cnbc.com)
2025-6-24 Bitcoin

Sources: Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky could get a multibillion-dollar payout if he drives the fintech's valuation to ~$150B, under an Elon Musk-style pay deal (t.co)
2025-6-23 Fintech Elon Musk

BitcoinTreasuries.net: about 130 publicly-listed companies currently hold ~$87B worth of bitcoin, equivalent to ~3.2% of all the bitcoins that will ever exist (t.co)
2025-6-21 Bitcoin

The DOJ announces the seizure of $225.3M in crypto, the largest-ever US seizure of cryptocurrency linked to confidence schemes known as “pig butchering” (www.cnbc.com)
2025-6-19 Cryptocurrency

TheMinerMag: median cost to mine a bitcoin is expected to rise 9.4% QoQ in Q2 2025 to $70K, up from $52K in Q4 2024, squeezing margins for less efficient miners (cointelegraph.com)
2025-6-17 Bitcoin 4Q

Trump Media and Technology Group files an S-1 with the US SEC to launch a spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF, allocating 75% to bitcoin and 25% to ether (www.coindesk.com)
2025-6-17 Trump Bitcoin ETF Ethereum

Filings: Bengaluru-based fintech Cred, which offers rewards for paying credit card bills and more, raised ~$72M at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.4B in 2022 (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2025-6-15 Fintech Credit Card

Gemini and Glassnode research: centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs, and public companies, now control 30.9% of bitcoin's circulating supply (cointelegraph.com)
2025-6-12 Bitcoin ETF

A profile of Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang, who turned down Stripe's $1.2B offer seven years ago; the fintech is now valued at $6.2B and plans an IPO in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-12 IPO Fintech

London-based OneBalance, which lets developers integrate crypto features into their apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Cyber Fund and Blockchain Capital (fortune.com)
2025-6-12 Blockchain London

'Bitcoin Baby' Soon To Be a Teenager (slashdot.org)
2025-6-11 Bitcoin

Online trading platform Webull will now allow US retail investors to bet on the future prices of bitcoin and ethereum through a partnership with Kalshi (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-11 Bitcoin Retail Ethereum

Linux Foundation unveils decentralized WordPress plugin manager (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-6-10 Linux WordPress Decentralize

Despite ‘Bitcoin-like encryption' promise, Elon Musk's XChat isn't secure as you think (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-5 Bitcoin Elon Musk

A profile of Nigerian fintech PalmPay, which raised $140M+ from Transsion and other Chinese firms, says it has 35M+ registered users, and aims to be “super app” (t.co)
2025-6-5 China Fintech Nigeria

Sources: JPMorgan aims to let clients use some crypto-linked assets as collateral for loans in the coming weeks, starting with BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-5 Bitcoin JPMorgan Asset

NYSE Arca files with the SEC to list a Bitcoin ETF linked to Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social and Truth.fi (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-4 Trump Bitcoin ETF

Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure (www.dlnews.com)
2025-6-1 Bitcoin

AI Could Consume More Power Than Bitcoin By the End of 2025 (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-5-31 Bitcoin AI

Chainalysis: the US government's top 20 crypto holdings are worth ~$20.9B as of May 28, including $20.4B in bitcoin, primarily derived from its seized crypto (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-29 Bitcoin

Inside Las Vegas' Bitcoin Conference: Eric and Donald Trump Jr gave speeches, JD Vance said bitcoin is “only going to help the American dollar”, and more (t.co)
2025-5-29 Trump U.S. Bitcoin Vegas

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