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Cipher Digital secures a $200M revolving credit facility to fund its pivot from Bitcoin mining to long-duration, AI and HPC data center revenues anchored by multi-campus leases. New credit facility underpins data center growth Cipher Digital said in its first-quarter 2026 business update that it has “secured a revolving credit facility of up to $200 million supported by a syndicate of leading global financial institutions,” describing the transaction as its first syndicated corporate revolver. The facility provides $200 million of committed capacity with an additional accordion option of up to $50 million, carries a scheduled maturity in March 2030, and…

The Australian Digital Dollar has welcomed the $XDC Network as the latest blockchain to be supported by its AUDDapt grant program. As part of the AUDDapt, developers can apply for funding to deploy AUDD-powered payment applications on the $XDC Network. The Australian Digital Dollar has announced the $XDC Network as the latest blockchain now supported under its AUDDapt grant program. In its announcement, the project stated that $XDC “strongly aligns with [our]digital stablecoin’s focus on real-world financial use cases – trade, payments, and tokenisation.” Announcing @XDCNetwork as a supported blockchain in the AUDDapt grant program. $XDC strongly aligns with @AUDD_digital…

Wall Street’s long-awaited migration into crypto is no longer theoretical, according to executives from Ondo Finance, Robinhood-owned Bitstamp and Babylon Labs. However, institutional adoption remains slower and more fragmented than many in the industry once expected. The executives described a financial industry increasingly embracing blockchain rails, tokenized securities and crypto-native yield products on the “Is the Wall Street Herd STILL Coming?” panel at Consensus Miami 2026. “I think it’s very clear that Wall Street is coming to crypto,” said Ondo President Ian De Bode, pointing to recent partnerships with Broadridge and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) aimed at…

AmericanFortress, a company developing a universal privacy layer for blockchain, announced it has closed an $8 million seed funding round co-led by SAVA Digital Asset Fund, Moon Pursuit Capital, and 0G Labs. Alongside the funding, the company has filed a patent for quantum-resistant cryptographic transaction signing. The announcement comes amid growing concerns around the security of blockchain cryptography, as timelines for potential quantum threats appear to be accelerating. Grayscale Research has called for faster efforts to make public blockchains quantum-resistant, highlighting that decentralized governance — particularly decisions around millions of already-exposed legacy wallets — remains a key challenge. At 0G,…

It could be more than a year before Bitcoin regains its all-time high of $126,100, recorded in October last year, according to veteran trader Peter Brandt. “I do not see a new price high in 2026,” Brandt told Cointelegraph. “Not until maybe the second quarter of 2027,” he said, though he also acknowledged that “this is all guesswork.” Pundits on the crypto prediction platform Polymarket are similarly pessimistic, giving just a 15% chance that Bitcoin will reclaim $120,000 in 2026. Prediction market on “What price will Bitcoin hit in 2026?” Source: Polymarket Analysts have been divided over how Bitcoin will…

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Coinbase said Tuesday it had chosen Centrifuge as its preferred tokenization infrastructure and made a strategic investment in the firm. Under the deal, Centrifuge is positioned to serve as the default issuance layer for tokenized assets across Coinbase’s ecosystem, including products on Base. The first wave of institutional assets is expected to launch on Base in the coming weeks, the firms said. Coinbase’s push into tokenized capital markets spans ETFs, credit and structured products. The Centrifuge deal gives Coinbase an infrastructure partner for outside asset managers that want to issue products onchain, though it doesn’t appear to be exclusive. Coinbase…

Recent claims suggesting that $XRP has already been classified as a financial instrument in Japan are inaccurate, according to $XRP community figure Crypto Eri. In a tweet, she addressed what she described as growing misinformation among financial influencers regarding $XRP’s classification in Japan. Key Point $XRP is not yet classified as a financial instrument in Japan, despite rising misinformation online. Japan’s FSA is proposing new rules that could reclassify crypto assets under the FIEA by 2027. The changes aim to tighten oversight as crypto adoption grows and fraud cases increase. Meanwhile, the U.S. SEC has classified $XRP as a digital…

Blockchain.com, a crypto wallet and exchange founded in 2011, announced the launch of SnapMarkets, a platform that lets users wager on whether bitcoin’s price will rise or fall in 30-second windows, on Wednesday. Stakes start at $1 in what the company calls a skill-based version of prediction markets. The launch comes as prediction markets surge, with market leaders Polymarket and Kalshi seeing a combined notional trading volume close to $24 billion in April. The market as a whole saw $29 billion in volume that month, Dune data shows. That includes event markets across categories such as sports, politics and finance.…

Pavel Durov posted a chart this week that is worth looking at twice. According to Chainspect’s May 2026 data, $TON sits at 0.6 seconds to finality, beating Avalanche (1 sec), BNB Smart Chain (1.1 sec), $SUI (1.5 sec), Hedera (2.5 sec), XRP Ledger (4 sec), and Solana (13 sec). Bitcoin and Ethereum do not even appear competitive on this metric, sitting at 1 hour and 13 minutes respectively. Why Now The timing of Durov’s post is not random. In April, $TON deployed its Catchain 2.0 consensus upgrade, cutting block times from roughly 2.5 seconds down to 400 milliseconds and boosting…