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Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), the country’s central bank, said on Wednesday that its Digital Asset Innovation Hub (DAIH) is piloting three regulatory sandbox programs to research and develop stablecoins and tokenized bank deposits.BNM’s initiatives center around using ringgit stablecoins, the fiat currency of Malaysia, for cross-border settlement and developing tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), according to the announcement.The pilot also aims to test tokenized bank deposits, with all research potentially applicable to the development of a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC), onchain fiat currency issued and managed directly by a central bank. The benefits of asset tokenization. Source: BNMPartners for…

Danske Bank, the largest bank in Denmark and a major retail bank in Northern Europe with over five million customers, is allowing clients to buy Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded products (ETPs) from BlackRock and WisdomTree via its eBanking and Mobile Banking platforms for the first time. The new offering, announced Wednesday, is open to self-directed investors only — customers who trade on the bank’s platform without receiving investment advice — and is explicitly framed as a response to “increasing customer demand” and “improved regulation” in the wake of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regime.The bank said customers can…

The European Union is finalizing a new package of sanctions aimed at closing loopholes that officials say have allowed Russia to use cryptocurrency to circumvent existing restrictions.The EU is seeking to “ban all cryptocurrency transactions with Russia” as part of the upcoming 20th sanctions package, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.Unlike previous efforts targeting Russia-linked entities spun out of already sanctioned platforms, the newly proposed measures are broader and are designed to close Russia’s crypto loophole entirely.“Any further listing of individual crypto asset service providers […] is therefore likely to result in the set-up of new ones to circumvent those listings,” according…

Bitcoin (BTC) saw flash volatility around Wednesday’s Wall Street open as US jobs data came in well above expectations.Key points:Bitcoin attempts to rescue the day’s losses on the back of stronger US nonfarm payrolls data.Mixed signals result in risk assets diverging in their reactions to the numbers.Bitcoin traders stay wary of a deeper BTC price dip to come.Analysis: Fed interest-rate pause to “continue”Data from TradingView tracked a BTC price spike to nearly $69,000 which quickly retraced, extending daily losses past 4% at the time of writing. BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewUS nonfarm payrolls outperformed considerably on the day, with 130,000…

A federal judge in Brooklyn has sentenced Braden John Karony, the former CEO of Defi project SafeMoon, to 100 months in prison for his role in a multi-million dollar fraud scheme. JUST IN: Founder of SafeMoon, Braden Karony, has just been sentenced to 100 months in prison. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) February 10, 2026 Karony was convicted of conspiratorial fraud and money laundering after diverting approximately $9 million in investor funds to purchase luxury assets, despite public assurances that the project’s liquidity pools were locked. The coin itself, Safemoon or SFM, has been in decline since the last bull run, now…

With his fame fast rising, painter Louis Fratino has joined David Zwirner, one of the world’s biggest galleries. Rather than cutting ties with his past galleries, as many artists do when they join a mega-gallery like Zwirner, Fratino will still be represented by Berlin’s Galerie Neu and New York’s Sikkema Jenkins Malloy, which helped make the artist famous in the city he calls home. Working in vivid figuration, Fratino has memorably painted bathers, fornicating lovers, dancers, nude men in repose, and himself in his studio. He also periodically branched out into other genres, including still lifes and landscapes. Related Articles…

Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021. Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to. In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career…

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1909.89, down 2.5% (-49.09) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday.None of the 20 assets are trading higher.Leaders: BCH (-0.5%) and UNI (-1.2%).Laggards: APT (-4.1%) and BNB (-3.7%).The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.

Blockchain transactions per second (TPS) numbers are often treated as a performance gauge, but they don’t tell the full story of whether a network can scale in practice.Carter Feldman, founder of Psy Protocol and a former hacker, told Cointelegraph that TPS figures are often misleading because they ignore how transactions are actually verified and relayed across decentralized systems.“Many pre-mainnet, testnet or isolated benchmarking tests measure TPS with only one node running. At that point, you might as well call Instagram a blockchain that can hit 1 billion TPS because it has one central authority validating every API call,” Feldman said.Part…

An analyst known for making timely crypto calls believes one Ethereum (ETH) rival is now forming a market bottom. Pseudonymous analyst Bluntz tells his 337,200 followers on X that Solana (SOL) is likely completing a three-wave correction and could soon enter a long-term bullish phase. Bluntz practices the Elliott Wave theory, which states that a bullish asset tends to witness a five-wave rally after going through an the ABC correction. “Anybody who’s not a tourist and has actually witnessed multiple cycles knows this is an amazing long-term SOL entry. For the record, the reason I’m bull-posting SOL more than anything…