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Inactive Since Launch The AB Foundation, an Irish-registered nonprofit organization chaired by former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, is being wound up after reportedly failing to conduct any operational business beyond its initial launch event. According to Ireland’s Companies Registration Office (CRO) filings, the AB Foundation has applied for a voluntary strike-off to dissolve the company. While official records reportedly indicate the non-profit never traded, the foundation claimed in late 2025 that it donated over $1.9 million to support victims of a level-five fire at Hong Kong’s Kwong Fuk Estate in Tai Po. Launched in early 2025 by crypto firm…

Prospect Markets said today (Thursday) that its US brokerage arm became a registered introducing broker. Prospect Brokerage USA joined the National Futures Association (NFA) and registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). A separate affiliate joined a CFTC-regulated exchange three days earlier. The two approvals split Prospect’s US rollout between retail distribution and direct exchange access, extending a shift toward third-party prediction-market infrastructure. Prospect Brokerage USA LLC will introduce individual customers. Prospect Trading USA LLC supports Prospect Markets’ institutional business. Both routes rely on Crypto.com entities for exchange, clearing and customer-account infrastructure. Crypto.com spun out its standalone OG prediction-market…

IREN is still mostly a Bitcoin miner by revenue, even as it retires mining hardware to make room for AI infrastructure and grow IREN’s AI cloud revenue. The company’s fiscal 2026 results, filed Aug. 27, show Bitcoin mining generated $578.2 million of IREN’s $707 million in annual revenue, or about 81.8%. AI Cloud Services contributed $128.8 million. That ongoing transition produced a $638.8 million non-cash impairment, primarily tied to decommissioning miners as data center sites were converted for AI workloads. IREN also reported a $702.6 million net loss, which was affected by the impairment and other items. The charge was…

The Japanese yen recorded its largest one-day gain against the U.S. dollar after USD/JPY reversed from a recent high near 164.00, drawing renewed attention to how shifts in Japan’s currency could influence global financial conditions and, in turn, Bitcoin. The move came as traders weighed reports of possible intervention by Japanese authorities and a weaker U.S. dollar following the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting. While a stronger yen does not guarantee higher cryptocurrency prices, market participants are watching whether rising liquidity conditions and changes in Japan’s bond market could support risk assets, even as short-term volatility remains elevated. USD/JPY Reversal Shifts…

Market-making firm Wintermute has significantly increased its bearish exposure on Hyperliquid and $XRP among its largest short positions, according to on-chain data tracked by Onchain Lens. The firm’s total short exposure has experienced a very sharp increase. Its top five short positions include Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, Hyperliquid’s native HYPE token and $XRP. Wintermute’s $XRP short is currently valued at more than $10 million. Onchain Lens reported that Wintermute had increased its overall short exposure by roughly $45 million since its previous update. Notably, Wintermute’s tracked positions were sitting at a combined unrealized loss $XRP’s tumultuous week $XRP is up 49.24%…

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has moved more than 3 trillion Shiba Inu tokens between its internal cold wallets. According to data from Arkham Intelligence, Binance transferred a combined 3,098,891,481,684 (3.09 trillion) Shiba Inu in two separate transactions. Notably, the exchange executed both transfers just one minute apart, suggesting that they formed part of the same internal wallet-management operation. The first transaction involved 1.099 trillion $SHIB, worth approximately $5.84 million, which moved from Binance’s cold wallet (0xF97…1aceC) to another Binance-controlled cold wallet (0x5a5…0Efcb). One minute later, Binance transferred another 2 trillion $SHIB, valued at $10.62 million, between the same…

Starknet’s recent tweet regarding Bitcoin yield has sparked significant interest within the crypto trading community. Eli Ben Sasson emphasized the difficulty in accessing a shielded version of Bitcoin, pointing out that Starknet’s strkBTC addresses this gap. This development opens new opportunities for traders looking to engage in private transactions and yield activities with Bitcoin. For further details, see the full tweet here. The Latest Starknet’s strategic introduction of strkBTC highlights a growing trend towards privacy in Bitcoin transactions. By enabling shielded transfers, swaps, and liquid staking, Starknet positions itself as a pioneer in the evolving DeFi landscape. The announcement arrives…

The Indian rupee continues to weaken, prompting the RBI to intervene to limit sharp swings in the currency’s swings. At the same time, Indian banks are rushing to raise billions of dollars from overseas markets, with dollar bond sales reaching a record $8 billion. What is more noteworthy is the same vision of both the moves- to manage the exposure to the US dollar. While Bitcoin is usually tracked in USD, Indian investors ultimately measure their gains in rupees, making the currency factor more important to them. When the rupee weakens, the INR value of Bitcoin can rise even if…

Neo co-founder Erik Zhang has added a draft CAIP-2 profile for Neo N3 to the Chain Agnostic namespace registry. The profile defines neo:860833102 as the standardized chain identifier for Neo N3 MainNet, supplying a naming-layer prerequisite for integration with CAIP-2-based systems such as the x402 payment protocol. The identifier has been merged into the Chain Agnostic Standards Alliance registry, though its status remains Draft. Zhang described the motivation in his announcement: I started this work after noticing that protocols such as x402 rely on CAIP-2, while native Neo had no canonical identifier. After community discussion and upstream review, the neo…

A cryptocurrency trader who accumulated a significant unrealized profit on an Ethereum long position has now opened a new highly leveraged position in Solana, according to blockchain tracking platform Lookonchain. The trader entered a 20x leveraged long position in 100,000 $SOL, valued at approximately $10.45 million, with an entry price of $104.55 per $SOL. Details of the Trader’s Positions Data from Lookonchain reveals that the same trader is also maintaining a 4x leveraged long position in 20,000 $ETH, worth about $49.91 million. That Ethereum position was entered at $1,936 per $ETH and currently shows an unrealized gain of approximately $11.19…