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The bank is ramping up technical work on a Korean won stablecoin after trademarks were filed ahead of forthcoming digital asset rules.

Crypto markets held steady Wednesday, remaining in “extreme fear,” with bitcoin unchanged, altcoins muted and Korean traders driving a rare standout rally in newly listed token MON.

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Bubblemaps shared blockchain data indicating that team-related wallets had purchased 30% of the token supply, but Edel’s co-founder said the acquisition was part of its token rollout plans. Concerns are mounting over unusual activity surrounding the token launch of Edel Finance, a lending protocol focused on tokenized stocks and real-world assets (RWAs). Blockchain analytics platform Bubblemaps claimed in a Tuesday X post that a cluster of about 160 wallets accumulated 30% of the EDEL token supply, worth $11 million, during the launch earlier this month. The platform alleged the wallets were linked and funded in a coordinated fashion immediately before trading opened. “Edel Finance sniped 30% of $EDEL. Then tried to hide it behind a maze of wallets and liquidity positions," said Bubblemaps. “Just hours before $EDEL launched, ~60 wallets were funded from Binance [...] Together, they got 30% of the supply – now worth $11M.” Read more

Naver Financial plans to acquire Dunamu in a $10.3 billion stock-swap deal, issuing 87.56 million new shares and making the crypto giant a wholly owned subsidiary. Naver Financial, the fintech arm of South Korean tech conglomerate Naver, announced plans to acquire Upbit operator Dunamu in a stock-swap deal valued at about 15.1 trillion won ($10.3 billion). According to a Wednesday filing, Naver Financial will issue 87.56 million new shares to Dunamu shareholders. The transaction will make Dunamu a wholly owned subsidiary of Naver Financial. The exchange ratio was set using an external discounted cash-flow valuation, which put the corporate value ratio at 1:3.064569 and, after adjusting for each firm’s outstanding shares, produced a final exchange price ratio of 1:2.5422618. Read more

Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy) spent 2025 building the largest corporate Bitcoin reserve the public markets have ever financed, but the scale of that ambition ended up colliding with the logic of its own stock. What began as an aggressive accumulation strategy, powered by the company’s appetite for leverage and a willingness to dilute existing shareholders, […] The post Why Wall Street is blocking Strategy’s S&P 500 entry — even with its $56B Bitcoin empire appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Bank for International Settlements is advancing major digital currency pilots, testing cross-border CBDCs, tokenized deposits and real-time payment rails. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has appointed Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, one of the world’s most influential economists on digital money, as the next head of the BIS Innovation Hub, effective March 2026. The BIS said Tuesday that Mancini-Griffoli will “lead work to explore technological solutions within the central bank community on innovation.” His mandate is expected to include ongoing work on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), tokenized assets and new forms of market infrastructure. Mancini-Griffoli currently serves as the assistant director in the International Monetary Fund’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department, where he leads work on payments and currencies. He’s one of the IMF’s most prominent voices advocating for regulated and publicly backed digital money models and has previously warned about the risks of unregulated sta...

As Bitcoin stabilizes, coins like ENA and a Trump-linked token have surged on selective capital rotation into altcoins.

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"A robust enhancement seems to be looming for the Pi ecosystem," one X account claimed.

A Bitcoin bull flag on the price charts projected a rebound to $96,000 as the Puell Multiple indicator suggested that BTC is undervalued at current prices. Bitcoin (BTC) is due for a “new uptrend” as a key BTC price metric suggests that the recent drop to $80,000 provided a prime buying opportunity.  Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s Puell Multiple has entered the discount zone, suggesting undervalued market conditions. Read more

Bitcoin trades near $87K with $85K support and $88K resistance key. Analysts eye $93K breakout or $75K drop if support fails.

A key Bitcoin technical indicator has fallen into discount territory, potentially providing an opportunity for savvy traders.

Cash Cloud’s bankruptcy case in Nevada cites similar claims mentioned in the Canada arbitral proceedings, according to Bitcoin Depot.

There is a lot of debate about whether Bitcoin has bottomed and will recover or if more pain is ahead. 

David Hoffman argues ETH has no technical dependency on Bitcoin, so a halt in BTC blocks wouldn’t affect Ethereum’s core operations.

Options traders are signaling a capped Bitcoin rebound, with volatility gauges pointing to a range-bound 2025 rather than a year-end surge.

Fake ERC-20 transfers appeared within 48 hours of MON’s debut as attackers targeted users during the network’s first wave of activity.

The bank has an idea for a product that would allow investors to make big gains if the leading cryptocurrency soars.