Turkish Exchange Paribu Buys Majority Of Competitor CoinMENA

Turkish crypto exchange Paribu has acquired a majority stake in CoinMENA, a Sharia-compliant cryptocurrency exchange licensed in Dubai and Bahrain. According to a Thursday CoinMENA announcement, Paribu acquired a majority stake in CoinMENA in a deal valuing the company at up to $240 million. The company claims the transaction is Türkiye’s largest fintech deal to … Read more

Cantor Slashes Strategy Target 60%, Not Concerned By Forced-sale Fears

US-based financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald slashed its price target on Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin-heavy company, Strategy, but kept a bullish stance on the cryptocurrency’s long-term upside, downplaying fears of forced liquidation, according to the Financial Times. Cantor Fitzgerald reportedly lowered its 12-month price target on Strategy stock by 60%, adjusted to $229 from $560, according to … Read more

Italy Sets Firm MiCA Deadline for VASPs

Italy’s securities regulator has set a firm timetable for how the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) will apply in the country, warning that unlicensed crypto platforms face a hard deadline to either seek authorization or leave the market. The move directly affects virtual asset service providers (VASPs) currently operating under Italy’s regime and … Read more

Prysm Bug Knocks Ethereum Consensus Participation After Fusaka

Shortly after the Fusaka network upgrade, the Ethereum network saw a sharp drop in validator participation after a bug in the Prysm consensus client knocked a chunk of votes offline. According to a Thursday Prysm announcement, version v7.0.0 of the client unnecessarily generated old states while processing outdated attestations, a flaw that Prysm core developer … Read more

Twenty One Capital to List on NYSE After Cantor Merger

Twenty One Capital, a Bitcoin-focused financial company led by Jack Mallers, expects its shares to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange next week following the completion of its merger with Cantor Equity Partners, a special purpose acquisition company. The announcement on Thursday followed shareholder approval of the deal at Cantor Equity Partners’ meeting, … Read more

XRP Sentiment Hits Fear Zone, But May Signal Rally

Social sentiment toward XRP has tanked into the “fear zone,” but the intelligence platform Santiment says a similar drop has led the token rallying. Santiment said on Thursday that its social data is showing that XRP (XRP) is seeing “the most fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) since October.” “The last time we saw near this … Read more