Bitway, the first purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain designed for Bitcoin business, has announced a strategic investment from YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs) and the successful completion of the inaugural EASY Residency Program. Recently, Bitway completed its brand upgrade and is preparing to launch a major mainnet hard fork, enabling flagship products such as a gasless Bitcoin payment network and native BTC-backed lending. These advancements will accelerate the development of a Bitcoin-centri...

Overnight, U.S. crypto-related stocks came under broad pressure, with major names including $MSTR, $SBET, $BNC, $BMNR, $DFDV, $UPXI, $GLXY, $HOOD, $COIN, $MARA, and $BTDR dropping 2%–22% amid weak market sentiment. Amid the widespread declines, $NA bucked the trend, climbing 16.28% to become a rare bright spot in the sector. Analysts suggest that risk-off sentiment driving structural inflows and investor optimism over the company’s fundamentals and potential catalysts likely contributed to th...

I. Enterprise-Built L1 Chains: Embracing the Valuation PremiumIn 2025, the blockchain industry is witnessing a new wave: enterprises are building their own Layer 1 (L1) blockchains. Payments giant Stripe, in collaboration with crypto venture firm Paradigm, recently launched Tempo, while Circle announced similar plans in its earnings report. Increasingly, Fortune 500 companies are exploring proprietary L1 chains.This trend is no accident. After more than a decade of evolution, L1s have become ...

Hong Kong, China, August 21, 2025 — HashKey Exchange, Hong Kong’s largest licensed virtual asset exchange, announced today that it will serve as the virtual asset trading platform for MicroBit Capital Management Company Limited (“MicroBit”), providing trading support for MicroBit Bitcoin Spot ETF (Stock Code: 3430.HK) and MicroBit Ethereum Spot ETF (Stock Code: 3425.HK). Hash Blockchain Limited will act as a sub-custodian for the virtual assets. Both ETFs have officially been listed on the Ho...

Amid intensifying competition in the public chain sector, a new entrant is positioning itself around the “connector economy,” aiming to break through the long-standing challenges of application adoption and user growth.From Performance Race to Application ShiftFor the past decade, the narrative around public blockchains has largely revolved around performance and finance. Following Ethereum’s rise, countless new chains have emerged, focusing on improving throughput, transaction speed, and sec...

AI-driven advanced cryptocurrency exchange Nivex has confirmed its participation in the “Bitcoin Asia Week Carnival & Snowcrash HK 2025”, set to take place on August 27, 2025, at the Sheraton Hong Kong Tung Chung Hotel. Jointly organized by SNOW CRASH, Feixiaohao, and Moore Labs, this event is designed as a premier international summit for the Bitcoin and blockchain industry. The program will feature a developer summit, technology trend sharing, ecosystem roundtables, and project roadshows, w...

On August 15(New York time), DMZ Finance, a global leader in RWA infrastructure, was invited to appear at the New York Stock Exchange to participate in the Demo Day co-hosted by YZi Labs and BNB Chain. Before an audience of over 200 top-tier international investment institutions, DMZ Co-Founder and CEO Mr. Lee Kai Yang shared the company’s strategic positioning in the RWA infrastructure sector and its strong market presence in Singapore, Dubai and Qatar. In July 2025, DMZ Finance was selected...

Amid the unprecedented transformation of the global financial system, blockchain technology is evolving from a fringe innovation to a core infrastructure, driving deep integration between traditional finance (TradFi) and crypto finance. In 2025, on July 31, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul S. Atkins officially announced the launch of the “Project Crypto” initiative, aiming to make the United States the global crypto capital. The core of this plan is to migrate stock...

HONG KONG, August 4, 2025 — As Bitcoin reshapes global finance, it’s also transforming culture. This year, Bitcoin Asia debuts a museum-scale gallery featuring digital and physical works exploring value, code, and ownership—from bytes to brushstrokes. Headlining the exhibition is Robert Alice, the UK-based artist and author whose art and books investigate blockchain’s philosophical and historical roots. Two works from his landmark series Portraits of a Mind—a 40-piece body of work encoding th...

August 20, 2025 – DecentralGPT (DGC), the world’s first decentralized large language model (LLM) inference network, announced it has raised $7 million in a strategic investment led by AGICrypto. All tokens allocated to investors in this round will be locked for one year, underscoring the long-term confidence from the capital markets in DecentralGPT’s future. Currently, DGC has officially gone live on major global exchanges including Binance Alpha, Bitget, KuCoin, and MEXC, providing global in...