The City of Roswell, New Mexico, established a Bitcoin strategic reserve with an initial value of $3,000 in January 2025, making it the first U.S. city to do so, as noted in a Roswell Daily Record article; this reserve grew to $2,606.123 by April 2025, reflecting Bitcoin’s market volatility. Roswell’s move aligns with its history […]
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Over the past several years, Europe has taken a pragmatic, layered approach to enabling regulated digital asset markets. A number of frameworks and trials have now converged to form a clear and actionable foundation for institutional engagement. The EU’s DLT Pilot Regime, the UK’s Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS), Switzerland’s DLT Act, and the Markets in
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The SEC’s decision to drop its investigation into PayPal’s stablecoin $PYUSD, launched in August 2023, removes a major regulatory hurdle, as the probe began in November 2023 over concerns that stablecoins might be classified as securities under strict investor-protection laws. $PYUSD, a dollar-backed stablecoin, benefits from this clarity, potentially boosting its adoption, especially since PayPal
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With the asset class rising to prominence like never before in 2025, the UK and US are set to collaborate in an effort to boost cryptocurrency adoption. Indeed, the United Kingdom and the United States will reportedly work together as they look to enhance crypto regulation and promote the advancement of the industry. UK Finance Minister Rachel
China’s removal of the 125% tariff on US ethane imports, announced on April 29, 2025, reverses a trade war escalation that began with a 15% tariff in February 2025, as reported by RBN Energy, signaling a potential de-escalation amid economic pressures like deflation and a trillion-dollar trade surplus in 2024. Ethane, a key petrochemical for
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SoFi, a $14 billion financial tech company, is reintroducing Bitcoin and crypto trading for its 10 million users, reversing a prior shutdown linked to Biden administration policies, signaling a major pivot toward crypto adoption in the U.S. financial sector. The move follows SoFi’s history of regulatory scrutiny, notably in 2022 when Democratic senators raised concerns
Some people believe that the tariff disruptions will settle down as more negotiations happen and greater thought is given to how to structure them to work in a sensible way. However, I am now hearing from a large and growing number of people who are having to deal with these issues that it is already
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Mastercard’s April 28, 2025, announcement introduces a global payment system supporting stablecoins like USDC, enabling over 150 million merchants to accept them through partnerships with firms like OKX, Nuvei, Circle, and Paxos, bridging traditional finance and decentralized finance. The initiative includes the OKX Card, allowing users to spend stablecoins directly, and features like Mastercard’s Crypto
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BlackRock’s $970 million Bitcoin purchase on April 29, 2025, follows their earlier $600 million acquisition in January, as reported by Digital Watch Observatory, signaling a growing institutional appetite for Bitcoin as a hedge against economic instability, with their iShares Bitcoin Trust now holding over $58 billion in BTC. This reflects a broader market sentiment where
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The X post by Vivek4real_ highlights a statement from MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel at a New York Investor Week event, where he revealed that other countries are actively buying Bitcoin, signaling a growing global interest in cryptocurrency as a strategic asset. MARA Holdings, a major Bitcoin mining firm, has shifted its treasury policy to
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