Overview
- Payward Inc., Kraken’s parent, reported $2.2 billion in adjusted 2025 revenue with 53% from non‑trading services, underscoring a shift toward custody, payments and financing.
- The U.S. Treasury said it lacks authority to bail out Bitcoin, reinforcing that crypto markets must rely on private infrastructure rather than government backstops.
- U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded about $545 million in weekly outflows, reflecting institutional rebalancing rather than an exit from the asset class, according to flow data cited in coverage.
- LiquidChain launched a Layer‑3 platform that it says unifies liquidity from Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana into a single execution environment; its presale has topped roughly $526,000 with very high advertised staking rewards near 1,965%.
- Bitcoin Hyper reports raising about $31.25 million in its presale and says it integrates the Solana Virtual Machine to deliver high‑speed execution as a Bitcoin Layer‑2.