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DCTRL, a Bitcoin hub and hacker space out of Vancouver, the fair-weather Canadian city, has announced the sunset of its downtown basement location, iconic among early adopters for its tinkerer mindset and hardware hacker culture. The community will be migrating to a new location in the coming weeks, and updates to the vision of the hub. The Vancouver Bitcoin community is renowned for having set up the first Bitcoin ATM in History, with DCTRL specifically having hosted a variety of renowned characters that, over the years, gave this industry much of its cultural and innovative flair.  Visited by some of…

  Tokenization is no longer a future concept. It is the infrastructure upgrade that is reshaping global finance today. Trillions in real-world assets — real estate, private credit, funds, equities and more — are moving on-chain. Leading this shift is Securitize, the institutional-grade tokenization platform powering BlackRock’s BUIDL fund, partnering with major banks and asset managers, and executing landmark deals such as tokenized luxury resorts. In the first nine months of 2025 alone, Securitize reported $55.6 million in revenue, an 841% increase year-over-year. Full-year 2024 revenue reached $18.8 million (129% growth), with $4B+ in assets under management as of November…

Dubai, UAE, February 28th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has introduced a fixed-rate borrowing option under its Unified Trading Account (UTA) Loan product, bringing together leverage of up to 10 times and fixed borrowing periods of up to 180 days within a single unified account — a combination that remains rare in the digital asset market. Bybit’s Unified Trading Account is designed to allow users to manage spot trading, derivatives trading, and borrowing activities within a single account structure using shared collateral and integrated margin management. Through UTA Loan, users can borrow assets via…

Geron Corporation (NASDAQ:GERN) is one of the most promising penny stocks under $5 to buy. On February 25, Geron Corporation reported earnings results for Q4 and the full year of 2025, fueled by the commercial success of its first-in-class telomerase inhibitor, RYTELO. The company achieved $48 million in net product revenue for Q4 and $183.6 million for the full year. This growth was supported by a 9% increase in demand and the expansion of its ordering accounts to ~1,300. Strategically, Geron underwent a significant transition in late 2025 to optimize its path toward sustainability. The company implemented a workforce reduction…

Feb 27 (Reuters) – Gold rose to near a one-month high on Friday and was headed for a seventh straight month of gains, supported by geopolitical tensions after the United States and Iran extended nuclear talks, while softer U.S. Treasury yields further boosted bullion.Spot gold was up 0.8% at $5,230.56 an ounce by 01:38 p.m. ET (1838 GMT), hitting its highest level since January 30 earlier in the session. Prices have climbed 7.6% so far in February.U.S. gold futures for April delivery settled 1% higher at $5,247.90.”There’s a lot of nervousness surrounding geopolitics, you have all the set-up for a…

Ripple shifts XRPL to a decentralized funding model in 2026, with DAOs, regional hubs, and venture networks replacing centralized grant programs. Ripple is changing how builders get money on the XRP Ledger. The shift moves away from a single-channel funding setup toward something far more spread out. Multiple organizations, community votes, and venture partners will all play a role going forward.As @Ripple posted on X, the XRP Ledger builder program is entering a new phase. The announcement pointed builders to an official breakdown of what is changing and how to get involved. That post confirmed the move toward a distributed…

Dubai, UAE, February 27th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today revealed the comprehensive results of its 2025 Security Initiative. Bybit has implemented an industry-leading, multi-layered defense architecture that has successfully protected thousands of users and set a new benchmark for proactive security in the digital asset space. In 2025, $17 billion in cryptocurrency was lost to scams and frauds, according to a report by Chainalysis. Redefining Industry Standards: The Triple-Tier withdrawal Fraudulent Defense Framework To move beyond reacting to scams after the damage is done, Bybit has pioneered a Dynamic Risk-Based protection system that…

Ethereum is trading at $2,062.67, recovering from recent lows and attempting to reclaim the $2,000–$2,100 range after weeks of volatile consolidation. On-chain activity involving Vitalik Buterin has drawn fresh attention just as ETH rebounds from higher-timeframe support, forming a potential double bottom structure. With technical stabilization underway and CoinCodex projections pointing to possible upside toward $3,800 later in 2026, Ethereum now sits at a key structural inflection point. Vitalik’s $800K ETH Swaps Raise Questions Arkham data recently tracked nearly $800,000 worth of ETH swaps executed by a wallet labeled to Vitalik Buterin. The transactions were routed through CoW Protocol and…

Risk appetite was holding up well in the first half of Thursday’s session for global markets, even if US futures have eased back slightly. Strong numbers from Nvidia (NASDAQ:) added a late boost to Wall Street yesterday, and that positive tone filtered through to Europe this morning. The pushed to a fresh weekly high, while the climbed to another record, underlining just how resilient equities remain. That said, the initial pop in Nvidia has lost a touch of momentum.Is Nvidia Results Enough to Keep Markets Supported?US futures have drifted off their best levels as the earnings beat, while solid, failed…

San Francisco, CA, February 26th, 2026, Chainwire SolanaCDN delivers 3.8x faster shred propagation through a global mesh of 35,000+ nodes, provided as a public good for the Solana network Pipe Network today announced the launch of SolanaCDN, a free, open-source Solana validator client with an integrated CDN acceleration layer. Built as a fork of Anza’s Agave, SolanaCDN gives every Solana validator access to faster shred propagation through Pipe’s global network of 35,000+ PoP (Point-of-Presence) nodes. The client and CDN layer are both completely free. Pipe Network is providing SolanaCDN as public good infrastructure for the Solana ecosystem. The problem SolanaCDN…