Russia’s central bank has added Sberbank to its register of organizations authorized to exchange digital currencies, according to reports. 

Sberbank was added to the list of digital depositories, which will keep a record of cryptocurrencies and digital rights, earlier this month. 

Now, it joins eight other organizations on the exchange register, including state-controlled VTB, Russia’s second-largest bank, and T-Invest Lab, part of T-Technologies, which also owns online lender T-Bank, according to a Monday report from Interfax. 

The announcement comes as Russia fast moves forward with Bitcoin-related regulation. Sberbank last month announced that it was the first in…

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Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Saldo Bank, gaining an EU banking license and a footprint across five European markets.

Payward is buying Saldo Finance Oy, a Finnish holding company whose subsidiary, Saldo Bank UAB, is a digital-first specialized bank licensed in Lithuania. The bank operates in Lithuania, Finland, Sweden and Germany, with a passport into the Netherlands. 

Payward did not reveal the financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close in 2027, subject to regulatory approvals.

It comes as Kraken, like other crypto exchanges, pushes further into the traditional finance world, allowing users…

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British multinational Standard Chartered on Wednesday announced a bitcoin trading service for affluent clients in the United Arab Emirates. 

The service is the first such service offered by an international bank in the UAE, Standard Chartered said. 

It comes after the bank last month debuted bitcoin trading for institutional clients in the Arab nation. Standard Chartered became one of the first global banks to enter the spot crypto trading space when in 2025 it set up a trading desk for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in London. 

JUST IN: Standard Chartered becomes the first international bank in the UAE to offer Bitcoin trading directly through eligible clients’ bank…

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Amsterdam helped lay the foundations of modern finance, but its artists were among its earliest critics. When speculative bubbles burst across Europe in 1720, Amsterdam printers and satirists responded with The Great Mirror of Folly, a collection of engravings and plays exposing the excesses of financial speculation.

Nearly three centuries later, the city hosted another monetary experiment. David Chaum, the cryptographer whose work on anonymous communication helped lay the groundwork for the cypherpunk movement, came to Amsterdam in the 1980s to work at CWI, the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science. Around 1990, he founded DigiCash to develop…

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The price of bitcoin slid Wednesday after data dropped showing that U.S. consumer prices shot up more than expected in September due to rising gasoline prices. 

The biggest cryptocurrency by market cap was recently trading for close to $82,827 after dropping nearly 1% over a 24-hour period. At one point on Wednesday morning in New York, bitcoin fell as low as nearly $82,331. 

Over the past seven days, the coin has dropped by more than 1%. Bitcoin’s price had its best quarter in years after rallying in August and September and leading many analysts to declare it to have exited a bear market. 

But sticky inflation is still weighing — in the short-term — on the cryptocurrency. 

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Young people are angry at capitalism, billionaires, and even their parents, but Natalie Brunell says they’re blaming the wrong thing. The Bitcoin Is for Everyone author explains how our financial system has become “socialism for the banks,” with privatized gains and socialized losses. She shares why Bitcoin could be the greatest equalizer for a generation that’s lost hope of owning a home or starting a family.

Chapters:0:00 – Natalie Brunell on Leaving Legacy News for Bitcoin1:09 – Fleeing Communism in Poland and Chasing the American Dream2:17 – Losing Everything in the Great Financial Crisis3:37 – Why People Still Don’t Understand Bitcoin7:01 – Bitcoin as a…

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Bitcoin treasury companies have moved from convertible bonds to perpetual preferred equity, and Mike Treidl explains why. He breaks down how preferreds let issuers like Strategy defer payments without defaulting, and why preferreds returning to par could give Strategy a second engine for buying Bitcoin. He also explains how sats per share and leverage without margin calls add value beyond holding Bitcoin directly.

Chapters:0:00 – Mike Treidl on Bitcoin’s Rebound to $83K0:50 – From Morgan Stanley to Blue Coin Capital: Bridging Wall Street and Bitcoin1:49 – Risk Budget First: How to Size a Bitcoin Allocation4:11 – Seller Exhaustion and Bitcoin Treasury Companies5:27 –…

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Whether or not quantum computers will break Bitcoin one day is a hot topic. 

But what about second-layer solutions like Lightning? 

Well, researchers from East Texas A&M University, North American University, Florida Gulf Coast University, and Florida Institute of Technology have been working on that. 

JUST IN: East Texas A&M University students announce they’ve built the first post-quantum security solution for the Bitcoin Lightning Network 👀 pic.twitter.com/GJYL2a9g2G

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In an announcement Tuesday, the team of researchers said that they built what they describe as the first full post-quantum security design for the…

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Crypto exchange Kraken’s parent company Payward has said it has plans to launch in the United Arab Emirates. 

After receiving full market approval from Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority, Payward said Tuesday that Payward can now operate as a regulated virtual asset service provider serving retail, professional and institutional investors. 

It follows a preliminary approval in May that allowed the company to complete its operational set-up ahead of onboarding clients.

At launch, Kraken clients in the UAE will be able to trade spot and margin with dirham-denominated pairs and fund and withdraw directly in dirhams. 

They’ll also have access to on-chain…

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Bitcoin’s price could be due a move upwards as the supply of the leading cryptocurrency on exchanges shrinks. 

That’s according to a researcher at data firm CryptoQuant, who wrote in a Monday report that bitcoin on exchanges has dropped to 2.67 million from 2.8 million since February. 

The price of bitcoin was recently $83,485, unmoved over a 24-hour period but up 8% over the past 30 days after having its best quarter in years. Its surge in August and September has led a number of analysts to declare the bear market is over.  

“If buying demand continues to improve while exchange supply remains low, BTC could benefit from a supply-demand imbalance, creating…

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