Poșta Română, the national postal service of Romania, installed its first Bitcoin ATM at a branch location in the city of Tulcea, in partnership with the Bitcoin Romania (BTR) exchange. According to an announcement from the postal service, the next locations to receive Bitcoin (BTC) ATMs will be in Alexandria, Piatra Neamț, Botoșani, and Nădlac….
Shares of Circle (CRCL) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday, opening at $69 a share in early trading. The stock at point surged to as much as $100, more than 200% above the $31 price it had set the night before. The company announced late Wednesday that it sold roughly…
Key takeaways: Ethereum’s decreasing TVL contrasts rising fees Ether (ETH) has struggled to reclaim the $2,700 mark despite an 8% gain between June 2 and June 4. Although the price gained 48% between May 5 and June 5, further upside appears limited due to some weak network activity and rising competition. Ethereum network total value…
The EasyA Consensus Hackathon, hosted on May 14-16 in Toronto, was the largest blockchain-related hackathon in North American history — and its organizers, brothers Phil and Dom Kwok, are planning on going even bigger next year in Miami. “We had some really good results, really cool projects,” the duo told CoinDesk in an interview recently….
When liquidity attracts attackers: What went wrong on Cetus? On May 22, 2025, Cetus Protocol, the primary decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Sui blockchain, suffered a major hack, marking one of the largest decentralized finance (DeFi) breaches in cryptocurrency history. An attacker exploited Cetus’ pricing mechanism flaw, stealing approximately $260 million in digital assets. This…
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Financial infrastructure company Zebec Network has acquired Gatenox, a compliance and identity platform, to bring core regulatory infrastructure in-house and expand into more tightly regulated markets. In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the company said the deal brings native Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Business (KYB) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) tools directly into its…
Botanix Labs has onboarded a couple of crypto industry heavyweights as node operators for its bitcoin layer-2 network. Mike Novogratz’s digital asset financial services firm Galaxy and crypto custody specialist Fireblocks are among 16 new node operators on Botanix, the company announced on Thursday. The operators have been onboarded and will be live once the…
Safe, a crypto self-custody company previously known as Gnosis Safe, has launched a subsidiary, Safe Labs, to build enterprise-grade self-custody solutions. According to a June 5 announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Safe Labs is a commercial subsidiary wholly owned by Safe. It will focus on building institutional products using Safe Smart Accounts, a modular smart contract-based…
Those who have followed financial markets for some time may have heard of contrary indicators. These metrics are often misleading at first glance – some appear positive but tend to signal a market downtrend, while others that seem negative mark price upswings. One such contrary indicator is leveraged bitcoin longs on the crypto exchange Bitfinex….