Day: March 9, 2026

Bitcoin’s 20 Millionth Coin Has Just Been Mined

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The Bitcoin network has just reached 20 million mined coins, leaving just one million Bitcoin to be mined over the next century.  “The market is about to experience something new: A global asset with almost no new supply left,” Energy Co managing partner David Eng said in an X post on Sunday. On average, about 450 new Bitcoins are mined each day at current rates. This rate halves roughly every four years as a result of the Bitcoin halving. With just 1 million Bitcoin supply left, the last Bitcoin is…

Nasdaq partners with Boerse Stuttgart Group’s Seturion to advance tokenized securities settlement in Europe

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Nasdaq will connect its European markets to Seturion, the pan-European blockchain-based settlement platform for tokenized assets operated by Boerse Stuttgart Group, in a move to enhance settlement efficiency and reduce fragmentation, the company said Monday. The initiative seeks to modernize post-trade infrastructure, improve efficiency, and accelerate the adoption of tokenized securities across Europe. With an initial focus on structured products, the partnership will facilitate faster, cheaper, and more seamless settlement while supporting compliance with European regulations such as MiFID II and the DLT Pilot Regime. According to Roland Chai of…

RWAs Will Run on Two Blockchain Rails, Says Redstone Co-Founder

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Institutional adoption of real-world assets (RWAs) is splitting between public and permissioned networks, exposing a divide between the liquidity advantages of blockchains like Ethereum and the privacy demands driving systems such as Canton Network. The divergence is becoming more pronounced as tokenized assets gain traction among major asset managers. Marcin Kaźmierczak, co-founder of blockchain oracle provider RedStone, said product development is likely to occur on public blockchains, while permissioned systems are better suited for institutional processes that require confidentiality. “There are some operations between institutions that simply have to stay…

Strategy Adds 17,994 BTC to Push Total Reserves Above 738,000

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Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public holder of Bitcoin, added another large tranche of BTC to its holdings last week, pushing total reserves above 738,000 BTC. Saylor’s Strategy acquired 17,994 Bitcoin (BTC) for $1.28 billion last week, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. The purchase marks the largest BTC acquisition made by Strategy since January, when it acquired 22,305 BTC for $2.13 billion at an average price of $95,284 per BTC. Source: SEC The latest purchase was made at an average price of $70,946…

Nigel Farage Invests in Stack BTC as UK Debates Crypto Donations

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Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage has invested 215,000 pounds (around $286,000) in Stack BTC, a London-listed Bitcoin treasury company chaired by former UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, as the Reform UK leader deepens his ties to the crypto sector.  The investment gives Farage a 6.31% stake in the company through his media vehicle Thorn In The Side, according to a Monday release. Stack said it raised $346,000 by issuing 5.2 million new shares at $0.65 each in a strategic funding round that included Farage and Blockchain.com. The company said Blockchain.com…

Strategy buys 17,994 Bitcoin for $1.3B

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Strategy, the Virginia-based software company that has transformed itself into the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, raised approximately $1.3 billion through equity sales over the past week and deployed all of those funds to acquire additional digital assets. The company, which trades on Nasdaq under the ticker MSTR, disclosed today that it purchased 17,994 Bitcoin between March 2 and March 8 at an average price of $70,946 per coin. The acquisition brings Strategy’s total holdings to 738,731 Bitcoin, accumulated at an aggregate cost of $56 billion and an average purchase…

Bybit Pushes Ahead With Middle East Growth Plans

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Crypto exchange Bybit has reaffirmed its commitment to the Middle East amid escalating global conflict, announcing the appointment of a new country manager to increase its presence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Tensions in the Middle East escalated last month after the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran. In response, Iran retaliated against several neighboring countries, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where Bybit maintains a major regional presence. Helen Liu, co-CEO of Bybit, said the company has no plans…

South Korea’s Bithumb faces six-month partial suspension over AML failures

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One of South Korea’s top crypto exchanges, Bithumb, received a preliminary notice from the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of a six-month partial business suspension over breaches of anti-money laundering regulations, local media reported Monday. The FIU also notified the company of disciplinary action against its chief executive officer. The notice flagged the exchange’s handling of unreported overseas virtual asset operators and insufficient KYC procedures. The action against Bithumb follows a systematic enforcement campaign by South Korean financial regulators targeting compliance failures across the domestic crypto industry. In 2025, the FIU…

Nasdaq Launches Equity Token Design With Kraken

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Nasdaq, the world’s second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization, is advancing tokenized equity development in collaboration with US crypto exchange Kraken. Nasdaq plans to support equity tokenization in a way that preserves issuer control, the company announced Monday. Nasdaq has partnered with Payward, the parent company of Kraken, and its subsidiary Backed, the issuer behind xStocks, to develop an equities transformation gateway. “Tokenization has the potential to unlock the benefits of an always-on financial ecosystem — enhancing how investors access markets, how issuers engage with shareholders,” Nasdaq president Tal Cohen…

Nasdaq and Kraken partner to launch equity token gateway to increase market liquidity

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Nasdaq on Monday announced plans to launch an equity token design, a framework to tokenize public company shares while keeping legal and regulatory integrity, modernizing investor engagement, and enabling always-on trading. The stock exchange giant has teamed up with Payward, Kraken’s parent company, to create a gateway connecting permissioned and permissionless markets for tokenized equities, ensuring legal equivalence, investor protections, and issuer control. The initiative aims to give issuers greater control over their shares in tokenized form while introducing programmable features that modernize how companies interact with shareholders on matters…