Retail sales volume in Romania (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) grew by 0.4% in unadjusted data and by 3.1% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days, in April 2025 versus April 2024, data from the country’s statistical office INS showed on Friday (June 6).
Michael Saylor’s Strategy has quadrupled its previously announced $250 million stock offering as a new funding avenue for its Bitcoin investments. Strategy, the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder, plans to raise nearly $1 billion through a stock offering to fund additional Bitcoin purchases. The company, led by executive chairman Michael Saylor, plans to issue 11,764,700 shares of 10.00% Series A Perpetual Stride Preferred Stock at a public offering price of $85 per share. Strategy estimates raising about $979.7 million from the net proceeds after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions for the firm’s offering expenses, according to a June 6 announcement. Read more
Europe plans to regulate decentralized finance in 2026, as lawmakers still struggle to define decentralization under MiCA, an EU crypto policy expert said. European lawmakers have yet to define “decentralization,” even as regulators begin preparing for decentralized finance (DeFi) to become a key focus of crypto policy in 2026. The world’s first comprehensive regulatory framework for the crypto industry, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), went into effect on Dec. 30, 2024. Among its aims are to boost investor protection, prevent fraud and address stablecoin reserve management. Still, as MiCA enters its final implementation phase, policymakers are shifting their attention to regulating DeFi, where many questions remain unresolved, according to Vyara Savova, senior policy lead at the European Crypto Initiative (EUCI). Read more