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Robinhood is betting $1.5Bn on itself. The popular trading platform announced a massive share repurchase program on Tuesday, authorizing the company to buy back its own stock over the next three years. This move comes at a moment of sharp contrast: while management signals confidence, the stock itself (HOOD) is trading near its lowest levels

Traders on Kalshi are currently pricing in a Bitcoin low of $48,000, matching Ted Pillows’ projected floor almost exactly. The estimated “electric cost” of Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen below $50,000, according to analyst Ted Pillows. That shift is adding weight to predictions of a potential price drop below $50,000, with Pillows suggesting it could

Payy raised $6m led by FirstMark to build a zero-knowledge L2 and wallet that make USDC payments private by default, targeting enterprise stablecoin flows that avoid fully transparent chains. Summary Payy, a New York-based stablecoin startup, closed a $6 million seed round led by FirstMark Capital in December 2025, bringing its total funding to $8

Bitget Wallet has launched its Onchain Payments Matrix, a global infrastructure layer designed to connect fragmented financial systems and enable stablecoin payments across everyday transactions, cross-border transfers, and emerging AI-driven commerce. The system integrates major players including Ripple, Mastercard, Visa, Tether, Circle, and MoonPay, alongside regional banks and payment providers, positioning the network as a

Bitcoin Depot has replaced its CEO and executive chairman in a sudden leadership overhaul that signals a forced maturation for the crypto ATM industry. The world’s largest kiosk operator announced the departure of CEO Scott Buchanan and founder Brandon Mintz’s step-back from executive duties, bringing in former MoneyGram chief Alex Holmes to take the wheel.

Even with the ongoing progress, SHIB’s price remains under pressure. What’s behind the downturn? Shiba Inu continues to attract new holders, but most investors have joined the ecosystem for more than a year. Nonetheless, the meme coin’s price has slipped by double digits since the start of 2026, while stalled activity on Shibarium suggests

Pump.fun now lets creators change fee wallets only once after launch, moving to curb “vamping” on Solana as platform revenue falls and industry figures call for coordinated reform. Summary Pump.fun co-founder Alon Cohen announced a protocol update on March 24 that limits token creators to one post-launch change of their fee recipient wallet. The move

Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), led by Fundstrat Global Advisors’ co-founder Thomas “Tom” Lee, is rolling out its MAVAN staking solution after months of infrastructure preparation, the company announced Wednesday. MAVAN, short for Made-in-America Validator Network, is a proprietary staking platform built to dominate institutional Ethereum staking and expand into broader blockchain infrastructure services. It was first

The Irish crypto wallet was supposed to be a digital tomb. For ten years, 500 Bitcoin sat untouched, locked behind a cryptographic wall that everyone assumed was impenetrable. That assumption ended on Tuesday. In a move that stunned on-chain analysts, the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) in Ireland successfully transferred $35 million worth of BTC from