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The Austrian Financial Market Authority has frozen new business at KuCoin EU months after granting the exchange a MiCA license, citing gaps in key AML and sanctions roles. Austria’s financial regulator has prohibited KuCoin EU Exchange from conducting new business, citing breaches of internal organizational requirements around Anti-Money Laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF) and the observance of financial sanctions. The Thursday decision by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) means KuCoin’s Vienna-based entity cannot onboard new customers or conclude new contracts or products within existing relationships until key compliance functions are “appropriately filled.” Sabina Liu, managing director at KuCoin EU, told Cointelegraph that two compliance professionals holding designated AML and sanctions oversight functions in Austria had “recently departed,” and that such mobility was common in “any regulated industry.” Read more

The decision has led to a roller coaster of crypto price action so far—but what does it mean longer term?

Strategy bought 592 Bitcoin for $39.8 million in its 100th purchase, increasing holdings to 717,722 BTC. Strategy bought 592 Bitcoin for about $39.8 million last week, marking its 100th purchase since the company adopted its Bitcoin-focused treasury strategy in August 2020. The latest purchase brings the company’s total holdings to 717,722 BTC, acquired at an aggregate cost of $54.56 billion, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. The newly acquired Bitcoin was purchased at an average price of $67,286 per BTC, inclusive of fees and expenses. The purchases were funded through the sale of 297,940 shares of Strategy’s Class A common stock under its at-the-market (ATM) offering program between Tuesday and Sunday. The sales generated net proceeds of about $39.7 million, according to the filing. Read more

Самые длинные змеи среди всех известных ученым жили на нашей планете более 40 миллионов лет назад. Высокая температура в то время позволяла существовать таким гигантам. Переживать не стоит, глобальное потепление не позволит появиться им снова.

The bank said stablecoins may generate up to $1 trillion in fresh Treasury bill demand by 2028, allowing the government to ramp up issuance and suspend 30-year bond auctions.

The company said the fresh capital will be used to expand into new markets and build out its onchain financial infrastructure.

В США на аукцион выставили купе Jaguar XJ220 1994 года в новом состоянии. Знаменитый суперкар в свое время был самым быстрым авто в мире.

Во время исследования императорского комплекса во Вьетнаме археологи обнаружили десятки редких позолоченных артефактов. Как отметили ученые, это стало одним из важнейших открытий в историческом комплексе за последние годы.

Salinas has previously said he has 70% of his liquid assets in bitcoin.

Een gezellig onderonsje wordt het niet, morgen in het Pentagon. Pete Hegseth, de Amerikaanse minister van Defensie, heeft Dario Amodei, de topman van AI-bedrijf Anthropic…

LAHORE: A Canadian national pursuing doctoral research, who went missing last week, has turned up in the custody of the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA). The agency on Monday produced Hamza Ahmad Khan before a magistrate, who sent him to jail for 14 days on judicial remand. On Sunday, police registered a case on kidnapping charges on the complaint of his friend. According to the first information report, Hamza went missing in the early hours of Feb 19 after leaving his residence in DHA Phase 10, according to the first information report (FIR) registered at the Defence-A police station. On Monday, it emerged that Hamza was in NCCIA custody for allegedly making anti-state posts on social media platforms X and Instagram. In the FIR registered against him by the NCCIA, the cybercrime agency said that during routine cyber patrols, accounts associated with Hamza were actively “disseminating misinformation and disinformation targeting the state institutions”. The FIR, a copy of which is available wi...

Base rode SocialFi, memecoins and AI agents to the top of Ethereum’s layer-2 ladder before turning inward to rebuild its core stack. Base will transition to a unified, internally maintained stack, expected to be its biggest architectural shift since launch. After debuting in 2023 as a rollup built on Optimism’s OP Stack, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer 2 is now consolidating its software into an in-house distribution, which can unlock faster upgrades and greater autonomy over its technical roadmap. It has been three years since Base launched its testnet. The network has experienced SocialFi explosions and ridden its own memecoin wave. It even went through a phase that both fascinated and unnerved Crypto Twitter as AI agents began transacting on its chain. Read more

Modi and Netanyahu are two leaders who have weathered global turbulence and leveraged it to their advantage. Haaretz examines the many comparisons – flattering and less so – drawn between the two aging political meteors

Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company now holds 717,722 bitcoin, purchased at an average price of $76,020 per coin, for a total of $54.56 billion.

Voor ruim een kwart van de Nederlanders is een negatieve houding op het werk de belangrijkste irritatiebron. Vooral vrouwen vinden dit irritant.

Каждый год миллионы потребителей выбирают самый новый и дорогой iPhone, не задумываясь, оправдана ли переплата. Популярный обозреватель решил проверить, насколько реален прогресс в смартфонах Apple за последние годы.

The company's total holdings were bought for over $54.5 billion - the current valuation is a lot less.

Standard Chartered sees $0.9T excess demand for U.S. Treasury bills, raising odds of reduced 30-year bond auctions.

Военный обозреватель Дэвид Экс принадлежал к тем скептикам, которые сомневались в существовании широко разрекламированной украинской ракеты "Фламинго". Но два недавних удара по военным объектам в глубоком российском тылу подтверждают: она есть и начала работать — просто не очень часто.

Bitcoin search interest in the United States is finally climbing back toward its 2021 highs. The move comes even as Bitcoin trades in the mid-$60,000s after topping $126,000 in October 2025. That pairing, attention rising as price slides, is an unfamiliar noise pattern in crypto; the public is walking back toward the window as the […] The post Bitcoin interest hits 5-year high in the United States defying bear market price decline appeared first on CryptoSlate.