RAKBANK’s mobile app now lets customers trade major cryptocurrencies using UAE dirhams/Image: Instagram TL;DR: RAKBANK is the first traditional UAE bank to enable retail crypto trading via its mobile app. The service is delivered in collaboration with Bitpanda Broker MENA DMCC, a licensed VARA-regulated platform. Customers can buy, sell and swap Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and […]
The global cryptocurrency market capitalisation touched a record $4 trillion on Friday, positioning the sector as a major investment option from a fringe class, as per the Coingecko data, cited by Reuters.This fresh milestone comes amid renewed investor optimism, increased institutional inflows, and clearer regulatory signals from major economies. Notably, the US House of Representatives […]
US President Donald Trump on Friday signed the “GENIUS Act,” a new law aimed at regulating payment stablecoins, marking a significant step toward bringing legitimacy and oversight to the cryptocurrency industry. The law, officially titled “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins,” represents a major policy shift for digital assets in the US. The […]
David Sacks reacted to Zohran Mamdani’s opinion that there should be no billionaire in NYC. President Donald Trump’s crypto czar David Sacks said NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s statement against billionaires should serve as a wake-up call to Silicon Valley as Mamdani said he doesn’t think there should be billionaires. Speaking on NBC’s Meet the […]
France charges 25 suspects in crypto abduction cases (Photo: AFP) Twenty-five people, including six minors, were charged in Paris over a spate of kidnappings and attempted abductions of top figures in France’s cryptocurrency world, prosecutors said on Saturday.“Eighteen people have been placed in pre-trial detention, three have requested a deferred hearing, and four have been […]
Crypto investor John Woeltz was arrested from his NYC pad where he tortured an Italian tourist for weeks. A 28-year-old Italian tourist who came to New York was held captive in a posh Manhattan apartment where he was given electric shock, forced to take cocaine and threatened to have his limbs cut off with an […]
US President Donald Trump is set to host a dinner for the top investors in his personal cryptocurrency venture at his Virginia golf club on Thursday. The gala will host 220 largest holders of $TRUMP memecoin, a crypto memecoin launched by the US president in January. As per the event website, the top 25 investors […]
Kidnap attempts were made on the family members of a crypto executive at 8am in Paris. French cryptocurrency boss Pierre Noizat on Friday praised his “heroic” son-in-law and a neighbour wielding a fire extinguisher for preventing the kidnap attempt of his pregnant daughter and young grandson.This week’s attempted abduction was the latest attack on a […]
Kidnap attempts were made on the family members of a crypto executive at 8am in Paris. A shocking video of a woman and a toddler being heckled by a few masked men in broad daylight in Paris has gone viral. The woman and the toddler have been identified as the daughter and the grandson of […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Spend enough time in San Francisco, peering into the cyberpunk future, and you may find that weird things like self-driving cars and woolly mammoths start seeming normal. On Wednesday night, people waited impatiently in a crowded room in the Marina district, gazing into a glowing white sphere known as the Orb, having your […]
