Category: Bitcoin News

Key takeaways: Brazil’s moves are corporate and municipal, not sovereign. B3’s spot ETFs and resized 0.01-BTC futures let treasurers gain, size and hedge exposure using familiar tools. New VASP standards (licensing, AML/CFT, governance, security), effective February 2026, reduce operational uncertainty. Key sequence: Write rules → list plain-vanilla access products → add hedging tools → enforce disclosure. What’s actually happening in Brazil? To be clear, Brazil’s National Treasury and central bank are not adding Bitcoin to the country’s sovereign reserves. There is also no law requiring government bodies or state-owned firms…

The Trump Organization and London-listed luxury real estate developer Dar Global are debuting a tokenized luxury hotel development project in the Maldives, one of the world’s most exclusive holiday destinations. The Trump Organization and Dar Global are tokenizing the development of a luxury hospitality project, introducing an “unprecedented financial innovation,” according to a joint announcement on Monday. Unlike most tokenized real-estate projects, which fractionalize ownership of completed or near-completed properties, the initiative will allow investors to gain exposure at the earliest stages of development. The new resort, Trump International Hotel…

Singapore’s main derivatives exchange will introduce two new cryptocurrency futures products this month, citing rising institutional interest in digital assets. SGX Derivatives is launching Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) perpetual futures, which are financial derivatives contracts enabling investors to bet on the spot price of the underlying asset without an expiration date. In a Monday announcement, SGX said it is launching new trading products to meet what it describes as the “rising institutional crypto demand, converging TradFi and crypto-native ecosystems.” The perpetual contracts will launch for trading on Nov. 24.…

Investment bank UBS has entered a strategic partnership with financial technology company Ant International to explore tokenized deposits for real-time cross-border payments and global liquidity management, marking a notable expansion of the Swiss bank’s blockchain-based digital cash platform.  The two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Singapore, anchoring the deal in one of the most active hubs for institutional blockchain experimentation. The move positions tokenized bank money as a potential replacement for traditional treasury settlement rails, which are still defined by cut-offs, fragmentation and multicurrency delays.  Ant International, which…

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) closed a third straight week in the red, deepening concerns that one of Bitcoin’s biggest institutional demand engines is stalling. Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs saw $1.1 billion in net negative outflows during the past trading week, marking their fourth-largest week of outflows on record, according to Farside Investors data. The ETF outflows occurred during a significant correction, as Bitcoin’s price fell by over 9.9% during the past week, to trade at $95,740 at the time of writing, Cointelegraph data shows. Bitcoin ETF flows (in…

Ether is starting on the same path that saw Bitcoin’s price multiply over 100 times since 2017, says Tom Lee, the executive chair of Ether treasury company BitMine. Lee said in an X post on Sunday that he first recommended Bitcoin (BTC) to clients of his research firm, Fundstrat, in 2017 when it was worth around $1,000, and it had seen multiple price declines of up to 75% in the years since. However, Bitcoin has now “100x from our first recommendation,” Lee said. “We believe ETH is embarking on that…