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Peter Thiel-backed Bitpanda eyes IPO in first half of 2026: Bloomberg
Vienna-based crypto exchange Bitpanda is reportedly seeking to go public in Germany at a valuation of roughly $4.6 billion to $5.8 billion....

Russia finalizes bill to open up crypto market to non-qualified traders: report
Anatoly Aksakov, chair of State Duma's Financial Markets Committee, said a draft bill is ready to let non-qualified investors trade crypto....

Bitdeer overtakes MARA as largest bitcoin miner by ‘managed hashrate’ metric
Singapore-based Bitdeer reported a “total hash rate under management," including a self-mining hashrate of 55.2 EH/s and hosted rigs. ...

Kraken and Bitget set the pace in the early innings of tokenized stock trading
Kraken remains king in actively traded tokenized stocks, while Ondo has scaled issuance faster through its partnership with Bitget....

‘Surreal moment’: Polymarket CEO touts prediction platform’s ‘most mainstream integration’ at Golden Globes
The 2026 edition of the Golden Globes was broadcast Sunday night on CBS and featured several prediction markets from Polymarket....

Senate Banking Committee’s crypto market structure bill text sets up showdown over stablecoin rewards
Lawmakers and the crypto industry are sifting through pages and pages of bill text, with much of the focus being on stablecoin rewards....

ETHGas launches GWEI token to govern Ethereum blockspace and make onchain execution predictable
Ethereum blockspace protocol ETHGas has launched its governance token GWEI, pitching it as the engine behind “Realtime Ethereum."...

Zama launching token sale at $55 million floor FDV via CoinList and own auction app
The CoinList sale will run next week, with 8% of the 11 billion ZAMA token supply allocated and tokens available to claim on Feb. 2....

Ethena Labs looks to boost USDe Safe holdings with gas-free Ethereum transactions and 10x rewards bump
"This alliance will accelerate the integration of USDe into the deepest layers of the DeFi economy,” Ethena founder Guy Young said....