Bitcoin-focused investment company Metaplanet has surged almost 190% year-to-date (YTD), leaving Japan’s largest and most liquid blue-chip companies in its wake. On Wednesday, Metaplanet released its earnings report for the second quarter of 2025. The report showed that the company’s YTD performance dwarfed the 7.2% average gain posted by the Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) Core 30,…

Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform OpenEden partnered with The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon) to manage and custody the underlying assets of its flagship tokenized US Treasury product, TBILL. OpenEden announced the partnership Wednesday, bringing one of Wall Street’s largest and oldest custodians into the growing market for tokenized Treasurys. OpenEden said…

Circle, a publicly traded US company and the issuer of USDC stablecoin, said it will launch a layer-1 (L1) blockchain compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) later this year. The company released its second-quarter results on Tuesday and announced the introduction of Arc, a new network designed to offer an “enterprise-grade foundation” for stablecoin payments, foreign…

Algorand’s roadmap for 2025 translates its core principles into concrete initiatives, including a community-led grant program and a user-friendly cryptocurrency wallet. Blockchain technology was built on a set of ideals, such as decentralization, community governance and sustainability. However, the industry is not strange to projects that discard these foundational ideals for short-term gains. Algorand, a…

Key takeaways Ghost chains are blockchains that are technically operational but have little to no real-world usage, development, or community engagement. Common warning signs include stagnant developer activity, low transaction volume, inactive communities, and exchange delistings. Even well-funded or corporate-backed projects like Diem, KodakCoin, and Luna can fail if adoption and ecosystem growth stall. Investors…

Ethereum’s next upgrade, Fusaka, goes live in November ahead of Devconnect Ethereum’s upcoming Fusaka hard fork is slated for early November 2025, setting the stage for one of the most consequential Ethereum network upgrades in years.  Unlike Pectra, the May 2025 fork that delivered visible changes like account abstraction and higher staking limits, Fusaka operates behind the curtain. It bundles…

Decubate, a Netherlands-based crypto launchpad platform, secured full regulatory approval under MiCAR to operate in the EU. Enthusiasm for crypto fundraising is on the rise, but the regulatory architecture built to support it has yet to catch up. Nowhere is this tension more visible than in Europe. Founders are ready to build, but crossing 27 regulatory…

An unidentified entity has been accumulating Ether aggressively over the past week, buying 221,166 ETH as the asset rallied by 21%. In the past 24 hours alone, the “mysterious institution” bought $212 million of Ether, according to data analytics platform Lookonchain. The whale tracker said the entity is using six different wallets to store its Ether, which…

Crypto firms have been facing account closures and denials of banking services for years under the label of de-risking. Many in the crypto industry believe that the debanking represents a policy-driven effort to suppress digital assets, referred to as “Operation ChokePoint 2.0.” After President Donald Trump’s pro-crypto team won the 2024 US election, many believed…

World Mobile is launching a blockchain-enabled 5G network using drones to beam connectivity directly to users worldwide. The company partnered with Indonesian telecom firm Protelindo to create World Mobile Stratospheric, an initiative designed to bridge gaps left by traditional communication infrastructure worldwide. The project uses hydrogen-powered drones, flying at 60,000 feet in the stratosphere, to…