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Deutsche Börse said Tuesday it has acquired a $200 million stake in U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, expanding its footprint in digital assets and strengthening an existing partnership between the two firms. The investment, made through the purchase of existing shares in a secondary market transaction, gives Deutsche Börse a 1.5% fully diluted stake in Kraken’s parent company, Payward Inc. The deal remains subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in the second quarter, according to a note shared with Bitcoin Magazine. The move builds on a partnership first announced in December 2025, as both…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Bitcoin reclaims $71.5k and pushes through the old ATH band, now the market has to prove it can hold thereBitcoin spent the last 24 to 48 hours doing what the market had repeatedly failed to do through the first part of the year. It moved through the $71,500 ceiling, reclaimed $72,000, and then started trading inside an old $73,500 to $73,800 resistance pocket.On the latest 30-minute data, Bitcoin traded around $74,485 after printing an intraday high near $74,947. That leaves the market roughly 5.2% higher over 24 hours and about 4.1% higher over 48 hours, with…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s call for the Fed to hold off on rate cuts reflects a problem that reaches far beyond Washington: war-driven inflation is keeping the door to cheaper money shut.Reuters reported that Bessent urged caution because the Iran conflict is lifting fuel costs and complicating the inflation outlook. The Fed’s own March minutes told pretty much the same story: officials warned that higher oil prices could lift inflation in the near term, delay the return to 2%, and, if sustained, pass through into core prices. Futures markets had already shifted toward fewer cuts, with…

In brief The Department of Justice has announced a compensation process for victims of the OneCoin fraud. More than $40 million in forfeited assets are available for victim compensation. Victims must file petitions by June 30, 2026 at onecoinremission.com to be eligible. The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a compensation process for victims of OneCoin, the fake cryptocurrency scheme that defrauded investors of some $4 billion through a global multi-level-marketing network from 2014 to 2019.Victims can now file petitions to claim their share of over $40 million in forfeited assets at onecoinremission.com, through a process administered by Kroll Settlement…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Kraken, the US’s second-largest crypto exchange, has rejected extortion threats from a criminal group after two incidents of unauthorized access to limited client support data in the past year, reigniting investors’ concerns about insider threats. Kraken Fights Back Extortion Demands On Monday, Kraken’s Chief Security Officer (CSO), Nick Percoco, revealed that a criminal group is extorting the crypto exchange, threatening to release videos of their systems exposing client data. In a security update, the CSO affirmed that Kraken had identified and shut down two instances of inappropriate…

The chief security officer at Kraken says the exchange is being targeted by a criminal group attempting to extort the company. In a new statement, Nick Percoco says Kraken’s core systems and client funds have not been compromised and that the company will not negotiate with the perpetrators. “We are currently being extorted by a criminal group threatening to release videos of our internal systems with client data shown if we do not comply with their demands. It’s important to start with the most important points: our systems were never breached; funds were never at risk; we will not pay…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Trading and Markets has issued new staff guidance aimed at bringing more clarity to how certain crypto trading tools may operate without triggering broker-dealer registration.  SEC Draws Guardrails For Crypto Interfaces According to the guidance, some crypto trading interfaces—explicitly including decentralized finance (DeFi) front-ends, wallet extensions, and mobile applications—could fall outside the broker-dealer framework if they meet a set of strict conditions.  The key point is that this is not a broad “permission slip” for every interface that…

In brief A vulnerability on Hyperbridge led to the loss of around $237,000 of bridged Polkadot (DOT) on Ethereum. A hacker gained access to the bridged DOT token contract, allowing them to mint 1 billion tokens valued above $1.1 billion. They then sold the tokens, walking away with only $237,000 on account of low liquidity. A technical exploit of blockchain token bridge Hyperbridge led to the artificial creation of 1 billion Polkadot (DOT) tokens valued above $1.1 billion—but it only saw around $237,000 in losses due to limited liquidity, the firm reported on Monday. The protocol, which allows users to transfer…

Bitcoin price surged more than 5% in the evening of April 13, climbing near the $75,000 level and marking its strongest intraday move in a couple weeks as traders reacted to a mix of macro pressure and technical positioning. The rally follows several days of choppy trading, with bitcoin price holding a tight range between roughly $68,000 support and $75,000 resistance amid geopolitical tension tied to U.S.–Iran developments over the last several weeks.  Earlier in the week, the asset slipped toward $70,000 after the collapse of diplomatic talks and a U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, which drove…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin is looking like it might be turning bullish above $70,000 again, but technical analysis shows that something bad may be coming soon for the price action.  The price action at the end of last week is starting to generate optimistic views for the Bitcoin price, but a pattern that has repeated across every major Bitcoin market cycle shows that the leading cryptocurrency is still in a sell zone. A Repeating 4-Year Cycle That Ends The Same Way Technical analysis of Bitcoin’s price action on the weekly…

In brief The SEC issued a new policy letting certain DeFi interfaces avoid broker-dealer registration. The move was praised by industry leaders as a major victory for decentralized finance. It indicates the SEC is barreling forward on crypto even as the Senate’s Clarity Act remains in limbo. The SEC unveiled a new policy Monday exempting certain decentralized finance interfaces from key registration requirements—a proactive move that indicates the regulator is moving full-steam ahead on its crypto agenda, with or without Congress.The new policy, laid out today in an SEC staff statement, allows user interfaces for DeFi tools to forego registration…

In brief The new MiniMax M2.7 matches top closed models in benchmarks. The model underwent a quite license shift to restrict commercial use post-release. The move was justified as a way to prevent service providers from “nerfing” the model when offering it to developers. MiniMax M2.7 is here, the weights are on Hugging Face, and it’s legitimately competing with the best closed models out right now.The numbers: 56.22% on SWE-Pro (a benchmark for software engineering tasks), nearly matching Claude Opus 4.6; 57.0% on Terminal Bench 2. An ELO of 1495 on GDPval-AA (a benchmark for real-world knowledge work tasks across…

In brief Crypto.com will co-present UFC Freedom 250 at the White House on June 14, marking America’s 250th birthday. The exchange is creating a $1 million bonus pool in CRO tokens for fighters. Ilia Topuria faces Justin Gaethje in the main event, which coincides with the crypto exchange’s 10th birthday. Crypto.com will co-present a UFC combat sports event on the White House grounds June 14, commemorating America’s 250th birthday with the sport’s largest-ever fighter bonus pool, according to a weekend announcement from UFC and the crypto exchange.The exchange will distribute $1 million to selected fighters on the UFC Freedom 250…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The Bank of Korea (BOK) has urged the cryptocurrency industry to adopt stronger safeguards after a major operational failure at crypto exchange Bithumb earlier this year.  In comments made on Monday, South Korea’s central bank suggested that crypto exchanges should use new mechanisms designed to prevent mistakes like the one that led to an erroneous payment involving 620,000 Bitcoin (BTC) in February. Bithumb Case Details Local media reports say the BOK pointed to the absence of circuit-breaker style systems as a key reason such incidents can escalate.…

In brief SoftBank, NEC, Honda, and Sony each took 10%+ in a new AI development company, joined by major banks and steelmakers. The company’s trillion-parameter model targets Physical AI—robots, autonomous vehicles, and industrial machines—not conversational chatbots. Japan’s government NEDO agency has earmarked ¥1 trillion (~$6.7B) over five years, with Japanese data kept domestic and off foreign cloud infrastructure. Japan isn’t interested in building the next ChatGPT.On Sunday, SoftBank, NEC, Honda, and Sony Group jointly formed a new company with one goal: build a trillion-parameter AI model that runs machines, not conversations.The move is a direct bet on what the community…

April 13, 2026 marked a milestone that even the most aggressive STRC bulls didn’t see coming this fast. Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock — ticker STRC — just printed over $1 billion in single-day trading volume. Not over a week. Not a rolling average. One session. And the kicker? 100% of that volume cleared above the $100 par threshold, meaning every single share that traded was eligible to trigger Strategy’s at-the-market offering. The ATM didn’t just run on Monday. It ran at full capacity. We track this in real time with our STRC ATM Tracker, and…