RedotPay, a Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments company, aspires to raise more than $1 billion in a U.S. IPO, a sum that could value it at over $4 billion. A modest goal, one might say, in a world where billions are but mere numbers on a screen.
Bitcoin, that darling of the digital realm, now hovers in the mid-$60,000 range, its momentum as weakened as a dandy after a night of excessive champagne. One cannot help but wonder if it is merely catching its breath or preparing for a more dramatic descent.
On one side: crypto’s dream team (Coinbase, Ripple, Andreessen Horowitz) begging for stablecoins to be allowed to do things like “programmability” and “rewards”-basically, they want to turn money into a video game. On the other side: banks, who just want to keep their monopoly on savings and pretend the 21st century never happened.
The Kingdom of Bhutan, once known for making tourists pay to breathe its air, has suddenly gone all-in on digital nomads. Now you can live there without needing to wear a traditional gho or pretend to meditate. Just pay up, and they’ll let you wander freely-no minimum income, no mandatory chanting, and definitely no quizzes on Buddhist philosophy.
In a most enlightening chat on the Charles Schwab Network, John Haar, Managing Director of Swan Bitcoin, weighed in on the current mess. Investors are apparently confused-surprise, surprise-because, while Bitcoin’s institutional adoption is rising faster than a caffeine addict on a Monday morning, its price is tanking. Welcome to crypto, folks!
In the past week, Pi has taken a tumble, dropping more than 6%, followed by a Monday slide that felt like a drunkard’s lurch-another 4%. Now, it’s trading near its all-time low, hovering around $0.1300. For a project that’s supposed to be celebrating, the price chart looks more like a wake than a party.
Having closed below $0.1020, Dogecoin, that once-proud steed, now trots in the shadow of Bitcoin and Ethereum, its hooves stumbling over $0.10 and $0.0950. A low of $0.0932, that cruel jest, was reached, followed by a brief recovery above $0.0925, only to be thwarted by the 38.2% Fib retracement, that unyielding wall.
Tom Lee’s BitMine buys 51,162 ETH as Vitalik sells, marking a week of contrasting moves in the Ethereum market. The Ethereum market, ever the drama queen, has once again taken center stage, with BitMine playing the role of the bold investor and Vitalik the cautious retiree.
Spain’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Bit2Me, moved 5.3 billion euros (around $6.24 billion) in trading volume in 2025, an eightfold jump since 2023, as it shifted from a consumer-facing platform to backend infrastructure for banks and law enforcement.
Fast forward, and boom! ZRO drops 12% in just 24 hours. You can almost hear the collective groan of people who thought they’d gotten off easy. Yeah, that’s the sound of confidence crumbling, my friend.