Opinion by: Thomas Chen, CEO of Function
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have solved the access issue but remain passive. What is needed now are credible, auditable, institutional-grade pathways to convert Bitcoin exposure into scalable yield.
Bitcoin is evolving from a digital store of

In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, veteran economist and gold advocate Peter Schiff issued one of his starkest warnings yet about Bitcoin’s future, and the powerful forces he believes have inflated it.
Schiff argues that the latest Bitcoin (BTC) bull market isn’t organic, but rather

Bitcoin miner CleanSpark expanded its power capacity by 28% in October as part of a broader push beyond crypto mining into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC).

The US-based company said it had acquired 271 acres near Houston, Texas, securing 285 megawatts of long-term p

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Mastercard is in talks to buy Zero Hash, following earlier interest in BVNK, in a push toward 24/7 stablecoin settlement.
The deals could give Mastercard a turnkey onchain payments stack, accelerating its move from pilot to production.
Stablecoin-based settlement would let banks a

Forward Industries, a digital asset–focused company that has built a significant position in Solana as part of its ongoing shift, has authorized a $1 billion share repurchase program — a move aimed at returning value to shareholders as it advances its transition into a digital asset treasury

Institutional-grade software provider Brickken is offering a compliance-first, whitelabel platform for RWA tokenization, designed to help financial institutions securely and compliantly digitize and manage their assets.
The tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) is rapidly moving from a niche c

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Two Chinese artificial intelligence chatbots outperformed some of the world’s most advanced models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, in an autonomous cryptocurrency trading competition that ended Tuesday.
Budget AI models QWEN3 MAX and DeepSeek finished first and second in the trading challenge,