Parataxis will launch a Bitcoin-native treasury platform in South Korea via Bridge Bio, aiming to expand institutional access to BTC despite regulatory barriers. Parataxis Holdings, an affiliate of digital asset-focused investment company Parataxis Capital Management, is set to launch a Bitcoin-native treasury platform in the South Korean public market. The firm announced on Friday it had entered a definitive agreement to invest 25 billion South Korean won ($18.5 million) into Bridge Biotherapeutics, a publicly traded biotech company. Following the acquisition, Parataxis will take a controlling interest in the firm, which will be renamed Parataxis Korea and repurposed as a treasury vehicle for institutional Bitcoin (BTC) exposure. Read more
Against 1 in 3,000 odds, a solo miner used a short burst of rented hash power to win a $330,000 Bitcoin block, proving that strategy can still beat scale in today’s mining landscape. On June 5, 2025, a solo miner pulled off what most would call impossible: solving a Bitcoin block alone and earning over $330,000 in Bitcoin block rewards. And they did it during the most competitive mining conditions in Bitcoin’s history. Read more
A local expert says a growing share of South Korea’s youth is turning to cryptocurrency not out of belief in its technology, but as a last resort amid economic woes. Cryptocurrency is booming in South Korea, but beneath the surface, the surge is driven less by optimism than by the economic desperation of its younger generation, according to a local expert. Crypto exchange users in South Korea have surpassed 16 million, according to data from late March, after receiving a boost from US President Donald Trump’s election win last November. The figure represents over 30% of the country’s population. Still, recent comments at German Blockchain Week from Eli Ilha Yune, chief product officer at quantum machine learning startup Anzaetek, suggest that this is not a consequence of the local population’s enthusiasm for blockchain technology. He explained during an “Asia Insights” panel that there are a lot of “crypto traders in Korea.” Read more
Jupiter exec Kash Dhanda announced a pause in DAO governance voting until 2026, citing the need to prioritize growth and product execution. Kash Dhanda, chief operating officer of the Solana-based Jupiter decentralized exchange (DEX), said the protocol will pause governance voting. In a lengthy Thursday announcement, Dhanda said Jupiter “stands at the edge of an inflection point” and “the window to define the future of DeFi is open, but it won’t stay open for long.” Dhanda highlighted the need to “be laser-focused on growth,” and said Jupiter was suspending the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) structure, which he said “isn’t working as intended.” Read more