Since mid-August 2026, PostFinance Ethereum staking runs without the twelve-week lock-up, and customers initiate unstaking themselves.
Author: Editorial Office CVJ.CH
Editorial Office CVJ.CH
Since 2018, the editorial team at Crypto Valley Journal has been reporting from Zug - the heart of Switzerland’s Crypto Valley - on Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain, and regulatory developments in digital assets. Behind the publication’s collective editorial voice is a team of writers with backgrounds in financial markets, law, and technology.
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A Bitcoin short squeeze liquidated USD 3.3 billion in short positions, while US spot ETFs drew USD 517 million in net inflows.
Trump says the CFTC under Chairman Michael Selig is working on regulated US market access for the perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid.
SkyBridge founder Anthony Scaramucci says long-term Bitcoin holders cut their positions once the price reached USD 100,000 per coin.
The SEC’s proposed crypto issuance rules would exempt offerings up to USD 5 million from federal registration for four years.
Kraken opens US stock trading to clients across the EEA under a Cypriot MiFID II license, while Switzerland stays out as a non-EEA state.
US prosecutors in Atlanta unsealed the Edward Zimbardi indictment over a USD 165 million crypto Ponzi days after Fiji deported him.
Harvard’s Bitcoin ETF position stayed at 3,044,612 IBIT shares in the second quarter, while the endowment sold its Ether ETF holding in full.
Bitpanda’s MiCA penalty of EUR 70,000 concerns only formal and notification rules, while its license and client funds remain untouched.
The OCC has conditionally approved a trust bank charter for World Liberty, allowing the Trump firm to issue the stablecoin USD1 itself in future.
The head of the global gold lobby, David Tait, expects Bitcoin to drop to zero, while BlackRock’s IBIT gathered USD 70 billion in 341 days.
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