mergers and acquisitions

mergers and acquisitions

Finance

Crypto Exchange Kraken Acquires No-Code Trading Firm Capitalise.ai to Expand Pro Platform

The purchase brings text-based strategy design, testing and automation to Kraken Pro users.

Kraken on phone (PiggyBank/ Unsplash)

Finance

Trump Family Expands Crypto Bets as Thumzup Pivots Into Dogecoin Mining

The Trump family’s crypto footprint is widening, and now dogecoin is part of the mix.

DOGE (Virginia Marinova/Unsplash)

Markets

Core Scientific Faces Valuation Disconnect; PT Hiked to $22: Jefferies

The bank reiterated its buy rating on CORZ and raised its price target for the bitcoin miner to $22 from $16 to reflect the CoreWeave acquisition.

Celsius and Core Scientific hope to raise millions via mining rig vouchers (alvarez/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Miner MARA Steps Into HPC With Majority Stake in EDF Subsidiary: H.C. Wainwright

The broker has an outperform rating on MARA stock with a $28 price target.

Data Center Server Room Bitcoin Mining

Markets

LayerZero Proposes $110M Stargate Token Merger in Consolidation Play

The plan would see all STG tokens converted into ZRO at a fixed rate, effectively retiring STG as a standalone governance and rewards token.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific’s Third Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Deal

Two Seas Capital has come out against Core Scientific's proposed all-stock acquisition by AI cloud provider CoreWeave.

Core Scientific facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Finance

Ripple to Buy Stablecoin Payments Firm Rail for $200M to Boost RLUSD

The Rail acquisition is a way for Ripple to delve deeper into the fast-growing stablecoin ecosystem after launching its RLUSD stablecoin

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse at Korea Blockchain Week. (Parikshit Mishra/CoinDesk)

Finance

CoinDCX Dismisses Report of Coinbase Acquisition Talks

CoinDCX's CEO denied reports of a potential acquisition by Coinbase, emphasizing the company's focus on India.

Indian flag (Naveed Ahmed/Unsplash)

Finance

Bakkt Sells Loyalty Business and Pivots to Pure-Play Crypto, Offers Shares

The technology firm sold its loyalty business for $11 million and announced a public share offering to fund bitcoin purchases.

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Finance

Archax to Acquire Deutsche Digital Assets, Expanding Crypto ETP Reach in Europe

The UK-regulated platform adds German crypto manager DDA, gaining BaFin permissions and $70 million AUM.

Europe flags (Shutterstock)