Connecticut has joined the growing number of US states rejecting the notion of a state Bitcoin reserve, prohibiting government entities from making crypto investments and payments. Connecticut lawmakers unanimously passed a bill prohibiting state and local government divisions from accepting cryptocurrency payments and holding crypto assets. The House Bill 7082, titled “An Act Concerning Various Revisions to the Money Transmission Statutes, State Payments and Investments in Virtual Currency [...],” received bipartisan support and was signed into law on Tuesday. The bill document stipulates that “neither the state nor any political subdivision of the state” shall accept payments in cryptocurrency or purchase crypto assets. Read more
UK-based property investment and management group M Core has invested over EUR150 million so far in 2025 for the acquisition of the Focsani Shopping Center project from KBC, and the Suceava Shopping City together with seven retail parks from real estate investor MAS.
Users will eventually be able to transfer ASTR to any Superchain network, according to OP Labs’ Zain Bacchus. Japan’s Astar Network has become the first blockchain to implement the SuperchainERC20 standard for its ASTR token, in a move aimed at addressing longstanding interoperability issues between networks like Ethereum and Polkadot. SuperchainERC20 enables interoperability across Optimism’s Superchain collective, which consists of dozens of projects working to scale Ethereum. ASTR can now move between Astar’s Polkadot-based layer-1, Sony’s Soneium and eventually all OP Superchain networks, the company told Cointelegraph. Read more