Author: Jose Oramas

The Czech National Bank is ramping up its exposure to digital assets and AI, revealing significant positions in Coinbase and Palantir in its latest US equity filing. According to a Q2 Form 13F submitted to the SEC, the central bank acquired 51,732 shares of Coinbase, valued at over US$18M (AU$27.3M…

Ripple Labs recently applied for a national bank charter with the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and a Master Account with the Federal Reserve.  CEO Brad Garlinghouse confirmed the move Wednesday, calling it an extension of Ripple’s long-running push to anchor crypto inside mainstream financial rails…

Australian biotech outfit Opyl (ASX:OPL) has turned to Bitcoin in a bid to outlast its worsening financial crunch.  According to a report by crypto outlet Decrypt, The Melbourne-based AI health-tech company disclosed in June that it had parked approximately AU$330,000 (around US$214,500) into BTC, snapping up around two BTC through the ASX-listed DigitalX Bitcoin ETF…

Solana’s biggest decentralised exchange (DEX), Jupiter, is pulling the plug on its governance system, announcing a full halt to all community voting until the end of 2025. The app will lock its Treasury until 2027, but will continue to collect income via jupSOL staking (funds will remain untouched). …

Glenda Maree Rogan has been banned from Australia’s financial services industry for ten years after funnelling nearly AU$15M into a crypto scam while acting as a financial adviser. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) determined that Rogan diverted client funds into The Financial Centre, an unlicensed offshore scheme…