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Cointelegraph.com - 13:42 Sep 02, 2025
Winklevoss brothers-founded crypto exchange Gemini has filed for an IPO, seeking to raise up to $317 million as an “emerging growth company.” Gemini, a crypto exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, announced the launch of an initial public offering (IPO) of 16.67 million shares of Class A common stock. Gemini Space Station filed a Form S-1 for IPO on Tuesday, planning to sell the shares priced between $17 and $19 per share, to raise up to $317 million. Subject to completion, the filing comes weeks after the company filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker GEMI on Aug. 16. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:31 Sep 02, 2025
Bitcoin still has time for one more surge to $150,000 says Peter Brandt, as retail sentiment around Solana soars: Trade Secrets. Welcome to Trade Secrets Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months and years ahead. After soaring to new highs in August, Bitcoin is now facing a critical test for its next major move, according to veteran trader Peter Brandt. I think there is still room for one more big thrust, perhaps to $125,000 to $150,000, but it is running out of time, Brandt tells Magazine. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:31 Sep 02, 2025
Bitcoin still has time for one more surge to $150,000 says Peter Brandt, as retail sentiment around Solana soars: Trade Secrets. Welcome to Trade Secrets Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months and years ahead. After soaring to new highs in August, Bitcoin is now facing a critical test for its next major move, according to veteran trader Peter Brandt. I think there is still room for one more big thrust, perhaps to $125,000 to $150,000, but it is running out of time, Brandt tells Magazine. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:30 Sep 02, 2025
Traditional compliance can’t keep up with 24/7 crypto markets — AI-native systems embedded at the core offer real-time risk detection and scalable solutions. Opinion by: Konstantin Anissimov, Global CEO at Currency.com Compliance isn’t what it used to be. In a market that runs 24/7 across multiple jurisdictions, payment methods and protocols, the status quo of checking boxes and filing reports feels disconnected from how digital finance actually works. Compliance must evolve when the system it protects is borderless, decentralized and constantly moving. For many, the way forward is still unclear. According to a recent industry report, 71% of executives expect financial crime threats to increase in 2025, yet only 23% consider their current frameworks genuinely practical. The gap between threat and readiness is widening. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:01 Sep 02, 2025
Meet the leaders shaping crypto in 2025 (BlackRock, Tether, Ethereum, Solana and EigenLayer) and what’s next on ETFs, stablecoins and restaking. Power in crypto has shifted from traditional players to five forces driving onchain finance and control. These forces are stablecoins, ETFs, base-layer upgrades, blockspace security and high-throughput execution. Traditional gatekeepers like exchanges and regulators now play a lesser role. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:00 Sep 02, 2025
RARI Foundation’s Anna Riabokon told Cointelegraph that licensing revenue and fee buybacks will sustain the platform’s rewards program. Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Rarible launched a redesigned trading platform on Tuesday and rolled out a new system that directs transaction fees into token buybacks. Rarible told Cointelegraph that the model, which redistributes tokens to active traders, is intended to create a sustainable alternative to earlier NFT marketplace incentive schemes that relied on fixed token allocations. “Previous designs in the NFT marketplace ecosystem were not sustainable,” Anna Riabokon, head of operations and governance at the RARI Foundation, told Cointelegraph. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:53 Sep 02, 2025
Coincheck is expanding into the European Economic Area by acquiring Paris-based institutional crypto brokerage Aplo, with the deal expected to close in October. Major Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck is expanding into the European Economic Area (EEA) by acquiring Paris-based Aplo, a regulated digital asset brokerage for institutional investors. According to a Tuesday announcement, Coincheck entered a stock purchase agreement to acquire Aplo. As part of the deal, all issued and outstanding shares of Aplo are to be exchanged for newly issued ordinary shares of Coincheck. The acquisition is expected to close in October. The exchange said the acquisition is “the first step of an important component of Coincheck Group’s stated mission” of making “acquisitions for retail and institutional crypto businesses outside of Japan.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:23 Sep 02, 2025
Michael Saylor’s Strategy announced a $449 million Bitcoin purchase made last week, bringing total BTC buys in August to just 7,714 BTC. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public company holding Bitcoin, purchased more BTC as the price slipped below $108,000 last week. Strategy acquired 4,048 Bitcoin (BTC) for $449.3 million between Aug. 25 and Monday, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Tuesday. Strategy’s latest Bitcoin purchase was made at an average price of $110,981 per BTC, as the crypto asset briefly surged above $113,000 and subsequently dropped below $108,000 on Friday, according to CoinGecko. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:17 Sep 02, 2025
Kite AI raised $18 million in a Series A round led by PayPal Ventures, bringing its total funding to $33 million to build decentralized infrastructure for AI agents in web3. Decentralized AI infrastructure provider Kite AI raised $18 million in its Series A funding round led by PayPal Ventures, bringing total cumulative funding to $33 million. According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph on Tuesday, other investors in the company include 8VC, Samsung Next, SBI US Gateway Fund, Vertex Ventures, Hashed, HashKey Capital, Avalanche Foundation, LayerZero, Animoca Brands and more. In February, Kite launched the testnet of its AI-centric layer-1 blockchain, based on Avalanche (AVAX), aiming to enhance scalability and data processing while providing centralized coordination for artificial intelligence (AI) workflows. Kite aims to leverage distributed infrastructure to power agentic AI infrastructure, envisioning AI agents as a new user category in the Web3 ecosystem. AI agents are autonomous software progra... -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:06 Sep 02, 2025
Ethereum-focused firm The Ether Machine secured $654 million in private financing from Jeffrey Berns, aiming to go public with over 495,000 ETH on its books. Crypto company The Ether Machine secured $654 million in a private financing round, collecting 150,000 Ether from prominent Ethereum advocate Jeffrey Berns. The funds will be transferred to the company’s wallet later this week, according to a Tuesday report by Reuters. Berns, known for his early investments in Ethereum infrastructure and Web3 initiatives, will join the board of directors. The raise is part of the company’s broader strategy to build a substantial Ether (ETH) treasury ahead of its anticipated Nasdaq debut later this year. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:28 Sep 02, 2025
Ethereum’s largest testnet, Holešky, will be sunset in the coming weeks after two years of rigorously testing Ethereum’s most important network upgrades. Ethereum’s largest testnet, Holešky, will sunset as part of a planned shutdown and migration to the Hoodi testnet following several technical issues earlier in the year. The foundation said Monday that Holešky will be shut down two weeks after the Fusaka upgrade is finalized on the network. The upgrade is proposed for sometime in the second half of September. “After this, Holešky will no longer be supported by client, testing or infrastructure teams,” it said. While the exact date isn’t clear, Ethereum core developers are looking to launch Fusaka on mainnet in November — so it must happen well before then. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:04 Sep 01, 2025
An X user known as Princess Hypio said they lost $170,000 in crypto and NFTs to a scammer who infiltrated a Discord server and pretended to have mutual friends. Update Sept.1, 11:30 pm UTC: This article has been updated to include information from Halborn’s chief information security officer. Last month, crypto user and NFT artist Princess Hypio told her followers she lost $170,000 in crypto and non-fungible tokens after a scammer convinced her to play a game with them on Steam. While she was “mindlessly” playing with the scammer, they were secretly stealing her funds and hacking her Discord. The same tactic was used on three of her other friends, she wrote in a post on Aug. 21 on X. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:40 Sep 01, 2025
Coinbase and OKX are moving into Australia’s pensions through SMSFs, while the United States revamps rules on how crypto fits into retirement plans. Two of the largest centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase and OKX, are introducing services for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs ) in Australia, giving individuals new ways to add cryptocurrency to the country’s retirement savings system. While Australians have been able to hold digital assets in SMSFs for several years, Coinbase and OKX are now packaging that access into dedicated products, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Instead of leaving investors to set up their own structures and manage custody independently, the exchanges offer services that combine referrals to accountants and law firms with integrated custody and record-keeping to meet audit requirements. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:52 Sep 01, 2025
Bitcoin’s hold over $109,000 hinges on this week’s US jobs report and other macroeconomic data. Key takeaways: Bitcoin whales rotating billions of dollars into Ether highlight weakening conviction in Bitcoin’s $108,000 support among major players. Bitcoin derivatives show rising liquidation risks with $390 million in leveraged longs at peril below $107,000. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:45 Sep 01, 2025
The crypto company tied to the US president and his family unlocked 24.6 billion tokens, making their holdings worth about $5 billion. An entity tied to US President Donald Trump’s family now holds about $5 billion worth of World Liberty Financial’s governance token (WLFI) after a significant unlock on Monday. According to World Liberty Financial’s website, DT Marks DEFI LLC and “certain family members” of Trump held 22.5 billion WLFI tokens. The company reported unlocking 24.6 billion WLFI tokens on Monday as part of a scheduled move to establish an initial circulating supply, briefly boosting the price to $0.40 before it fell to about $0.21 at time of publication. World Liberty previously said the holdings of its founders — including Trump and his three sons, Donald Trump Jr., Barron Trump and Eric Trump — would initially remain locked. However, Monday’s unlocking effectively gave the Trump family’s stake a valuation of about $5 billion based on the WLFI price at the time of publication. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:30 Sep 01, 2025
The United Arab Emirates has become a hot spot for the crypto industry as clear regulatory frameworks and no tax on crypto profits has driven interest in digital assets. RAK Properties, one of the largest publicly traded real estate company in the Ras Al Khaimah emirate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will start accepting cryptocurrency for international property transactions. According to a Monday announcement, RAK Properties will begin accepting payments in Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and Tether’s USDt (USDT), among others. The move underscores the growing adoption of digital assets in the UAE, a sector projected to become one of the country’s largest in the coming years. Crypto transactions will be handled by Hubpay, a global payments platform based in the region. Hubpay will convert digital assets into the UAE’s local fiat currency before depositing them into RAK's accounts. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:51 Sep 01, 2025
Bitcoin bulls are trying to push the price back above $110,530, but bears continue to sell breakouts and the range highs. Will altcoins catch a bounce? Key points: Bitcoin bulls will have to quickly push the price back above the 20-day EMA to prevent a collapse to $105,000. The shallow pullback in select altcoins suggests that the investors are not hurrying to sell them as they anticipate the up move to continue. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:49 Sep 01, 2025
According to some Republican lawmakers, the first crypto-related priority in the Senate will be to pass legislation for market structure. After a monthlong break, the US Senate and House of Representatives are scheduled to return to conducting government business, which includes key policies affecting the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Both chambers of the 119th session of the US Congress went on recess weeks ago as part of their schedule established in January. The move effectively paused any work toward passage of a bill to establish digital asset market structure, consider the nomination of Brian Quintenz to become chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and legislation containing a provision for restricting a central bank digital currency (CBDC). One of the first legislative items on Republicans’ agenda upon their return will be to pass a bill establishing crypto market structure out of a committee and for a floor vote. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:08 Sep 01, 2025
The World Liberty Financial token, WLFI, began trading on several crypto exchanges on Monday. Here’s how traders can avoid scams. After months of speculation, the Donald Trump–backed World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token began trading Monday morning. However, confusion remains around the token’s unlock schedule, supported exchanges and distinguishing the legitimate WLFI from a wave of imitations. WLFI is the native token of World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform founded in 2024. While its utility has been kept deliberately vague, the project promotes itself as a bridge between traditional finance and DeFi. WLFI functions as the platform’s governance token, giving holders voting power over protocols and strategic decisions. On Monday, the project confirmed WLFI is officially live with a total supply of 24.66 billion tokens, allocated as follows: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:01 Sep 01, 2025
Discover the richest crypto founders, tech CEOs and digital asset moguls of 2025. From CZ to Vitalik Buterin, see who tops the crypto wealth ranking. Crypto wealth in 2025 is led by exchange founders and stablecoin creators like CZ, Devasini and Armstrong. Not all crypto billionaires are CEOs — Buterin shows protocol builders can rival corporate giants. A new wave of millionaires is rising from culture, entertainment and Web3-native models like Stake.com. Read more
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