Odaily News Yoshiharu Global, a NASDAQ-listed company, announced that it will change its name to Vestand Inc. starting September 3, 2025, with the stock ticker replaced by "VSTD". It is reported that Yoshiharu Global is a Japanese ramen and roll restaurant operator. After the name change, the company will launch an encryption treasury strategy, positioning digital assets as a core component of its capital structure, and will purchase Bitcoin and other major digital assets. (Globenewswire)

Japanese nail salon operator Convano plans to raise approximately 434 billion yen (about 3 billion USD) to gradually purchase 21,000 Bitcoins, aiming to become one of the largest Bitcoin-holding companies in the world. The specific purchases will be carried out in three phases.

PANews August 27 news, according to Cointelegraph, USDT0 operator Everdawn Labs announced that the cross-chain liquidity stablecoin USDT0 (USDT0) and XAUt0 (XAUt0) supported by LayerZero's Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT)

BlockBeats news, on August 19, the yen stablecoin issuer JPYC announced the completion of its registration as a fund transfer business operator. Its yen stablecoin plans to be deployed on Ethereum, Avalanche, and Polygon. On November 10, 2021, the yen stablecoin issuer JPYC completed a Series A financing round of 500 million yen (approximately 4.43 million USD), led by Headline Asia with participation from Circle Ventures.

Upbit operator Dunamu has been assessed a tax surcharge of 22.635 billion won due to a tax investigation, which is equivalent to 23% of its net profit for the second quarter. In addition, Dunamu is currently in litigation with financial regulators and faces a penalty of a three-month suspension of some of its business.

According to ChainCatcher news and Jin10 reports, at the opening of the US stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4%, the S&P 500 index rose 0.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.38%. Data center operator Coreweave (CRWV.O) fell over 10%, with adjusted net losses in the second quarter significantly widening to $130.8 million.

Odaily News Convano, a Japanese nail salon operator, announced plans to hold 21,000 Bitcoins by the end of March 2027. The company has raised 2 billion yen (approximately 13.54 million USD) for its Bitcoin accumulation plan in August. Since launching its Bitcoin financial strategy, Convano has acquired about 165 Bitcoins in the past two weeks.

According to ChainCatcher news reported by PRNewswire, Bitcoin ATM operator Localcoin has announced an expansion of its Crypto Assets accessibility, now supporting Solana (SOL), allowing users to purchase directly with cash, but users must prepare a Wallet compatible with Solana.

BlockBeats news, on July 28, Upexi, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPXI), a brand operator focused on the development, manufacturing, and distribution of consumer goods and involved in the Crypto Assets field, announced today that it has signed an equity financing protocol with A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners. According to the protocol, Upexi can independently decide to sell up to $500 million of the company's common stock, subject to specific restrictions and Delivery conditions. This equity financing does not require a commitment fee, and the funds raised will be used for the company's general operating purposes and to advance its.

According to BlockBeats, on July 24, the Japanese listed company and nail salon operator Convano Inc officially launched its Bitcoin treasury strategy, purchasing 79.92 BTC this week. BlockBeats previously reported that on July 17, Convano Inc (6574.T) officially started its Bitcoin financial strategy and plans to purchase BTC worth 400 million yen (approximately 2.7 million USD) in July.

Odaily News According to official news, Southeast Asia stablecoin operator APACX has recently reached a strategic partnership with digital asset self-custody service provider Safeheron. Through this collaboration, Safeheron will assist APACX in building a decentralized protocol for stablecoin trading and settlement aimed at the Southeast Asian market, creating a value network for the interconnectivity and application of multiple stablecoins, particularly providing services to APACX in top-notch security and risk control capabilities.

Golden Finance reports that crypto assets exchange operator Bullish has filed for an IPO in the United States.

PANews July 17 news, according to the official announcement, Japanese nail salon operator Convano Inc (6574.T) has officially launched its Bitcoin financial strategy and plans to purchase BTC worth 400 million yen (approximately 2.7 million USD) in July. The company has established a dedicated "Bitcoin Strategy Office" led by director Taiyo Azuma.

PANews, July 10 news, according to Cointelegraph, the Crypto Assets ATM operator Bitcoin Depot disclosed a data breach incident that occurred on June 23, 2024, which resulted in the personal information of 26,732 customers being leaked, including names, phone numbers, driver's license numbers, and other sensitive information. The company stated that an investigation by a cybersecurity firm confirmed that it was caused by unauthorized access by a third party, but emphasized that \u002634; no evidence of customer information being misused was found \u002634;. The company explained that the delay in notification was due to cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies' investigation requests, and that they were not permitted to initiate the notification process until June 13, 2025. Currently, Bitcoin Depot has strengthened security monitoring measures and recommended that affected users set up credit fraud alerts. This is another major incident involving a Crypto Assets ATM operator following Byte Federal in December 2024.

According to Bloomberg, AI cloud service provider CoreWeave has announced an all-stock acquisition of data center operator Core Scientific for $9 billion. This move aims to directly control the critical physical assets that support the booming artificial intelligence (AI) sector - data centers.

According to the Gate News bot, as reported by the Hong Kong Economic Journal, the Director of the Invest Hong Kong, Liu Kaixuan, stated that a stablecoin operator is in discussions with its financial team about the opportunity to set up in Hong Kong. It is expected that shortly after the "stablecoin regulations" come into effect next month, related companies will establish a presence.

According to ChainCatcher news and reported by Cointelegraph, a Brussels criminal court sentenced three criminals involved in the kidnapping of crypto assets entrepreneur Stefan Winkel's wife to 12 years in prison each and ordered them to pay 1 million euros in compensation. Three individuals had demanded Crypto Assets as ransom, and the mastermind has not yet been apprehended. The victim Winkel is a well-known operator of a local encryption education platform, and after the incident, he has been forced to move and adjust the format of his public activities.

Gate News bot message, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into a former employee of the cryptocurrency payment company DigitalMint. This former employee allegedly made a private agreement with hackers during the handling of a ransomware incident, illegally profiting from the ransom paid by victims. DigitalMi, a well-known Bitcoin ATM operator in the United States

PANews, July 1st - CyberStep, the operator of the popular online claw machine game Toreba in Japan, announced the launch of a new business for the strategic reserve and operation of cryptocurrency assets starting from July 1st, planning to invest up to 1 billion yen. This new business will be handled by its newly established strategic department, Cryptech Capital, with the aim of building a new revenue base and accelerating expansion into the Web3 field. The company plans to establish a "self-circulating token economy" by exchanging tokens generated through its Web3 services for mainstream cryptocurrency assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, to be used as corporate asset reserves. As a specific case, its blockchain game Eggle allows users to acquire Eggle Energy Token ($ENG) during the cultivation of NFT characters, and this token will be included in the strategic investment scope of the new business. Cryptech

According to Gate News bot and CoinDesk, CyberStep, which operates the online claw machine game "Claw Master", announced that it will launch a new encryption asset strategic reserve and management business starting from July 1. This business will be managed by the newly established strategic department "CRYPTECH Capital", aimed at building a new revenue base for the company and accelerating its business expansion into the Web3 field.

Jin10 Data, June 30 – On the 29th local time, Israel's largest refinery operator, Bazan Group, stated that the Haifa refinery, which was partially damaged by an Iranian missile attack two weeks ago, has partially resumed production and is expected to fully operate again before October this year. On the 15th of this month, a refinery in the northern Israeli city of Haifa was damaged in an Iranian missile attack, which resulted in the death of three employees, and the refinery's pipelines and power lines were damaged in the attack.

Odaily News Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission's official website updated data shows that BitMart submitted a virtual asset trading platform license application to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission on June 27. Relevant information indicates that the company name of the virtual asset trading platform operator submitted by BitMart is "Spread Technologies Hong Kong Limited", and the Chinese name is not applicable. As of now, the number of applicants for virtual asset trading platform licenses that have been withdrawn or returned as published by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission totals 15 (including those who have resubmitted applications); the number of applicants for virtual asset trading platform licenses currently stands at 10, while the number of licensed virtual asset trading platforms is 11.

PANews reported on June 28 that last week, Texas police used power tools to retrieve $32,000 from a Bitcoin Depot ATM. Chris Ryan, Chief Legal Officer of Bitcoin Depot, stated that it is an abuse of power for U.S. law enforcement to use violent means to retrieve cash from Bitcoin ATMs, which may violate the law. Its Chief Operating Officer Scott Buchanan mentioned that the machine must be completely replaced because law enforcement cut open the "physical" of the self-service terminal. The Federal Bureau of Investigation

Gate News bot news, CoreWeave Inc. is in talks for the acquisition of data center operator Core Scientific Inc., whose stock price surged by 32% at one point. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that if all goes well, the two parties may reach a protocol in the coming weeks. The report cited unnamed sources as saying that the specific terms are still unclear.

Gate News bot news, according to CoinTelegraph, Seattle-based encryption ATM operator Coinme has agreed to pay a fine of $300,000 for violating the daily transaction limit for encryption ATMs in California.

Gate News bot message, US-based Crypto Assets ATM operator Athena Bitcoin Global focuses on pumping the Latin American market, the company has applied to register billions of shares for resale by early investors, marking its potential exit through early debt financing.

Jin10 data on June 25th, according to the report released by the International Data Corporation (IDC), the global smart camera market in the first quarter of 2025 (including consumer indoor and outdoor cameras, including operator channels) dumped 33.866 million units, a rise of 4.6% year-on-year, with the growth rate continuing to slow down.

Gate News bot reported that Chainlink announced earlier in the day a partnership with global payment operator Mastercard, allowing over 3 billion cardholders to directly purchase Cryptocurrency on-chain, as its native Token LINK saw a bullish trend.

PANews June 17 news, according to The Block, Galaxy Digital has partnered with Liquid Collective to provide liquid staking services for institutional investors on Ethereum. According to the agreement, Galaxy will act as the OTC Trading support party, providing liquidity support for Liquid Collective's liquid staking token LsETH. This cooperation is based on the new regulations made by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in May, which clarifies that staking activities do not constitute securities issuance. Both parties stated that they will expand cooperation to liquid staking services on networks such as Solana in the future. In addition, Galaxy will also become a Node operator for the Liquid Collective network.

ChainCatcher News, Bitcoin-native ZK Rollup project GOAT Network released an economic beige book on Bitcoin ZK Rollup, proposing a plan for the implementation of the economic model of Bitcoin-native zkRollup. This plan systematically addresses issues such as incentive imbalance, concentration of role costs, and low verification efficiency in the current BTC L2 system through the "Universal Operator Role Rotation Mechanism" and "Multi-Round Challenge Mechanism".

ChainCatcher message, the Bitcoin native ZK Rollup project GOAT Network has released an economic brown paper on Bitcoin ZK Rollup, proposing an economic model landing plan for Bitcoin native zkRollup. This scheme systematically addresses the issues of incentive imbalance, concentrated role costs, and low verification efficiency currently present in the BTC L2 system through the "Universal Operator Role Rotation Mechanism" and "Multi-Round Challenge Mechanism".

Gate News bot message, Deutsche Telekom MMS has become a Nillion privacy-enhancing technology network (PetNet) node operator, being one of the first corporate participants in the initial multi-party computation cluster of PetNet. It is reported that PetNet is a decentralized network built specifically for secure, private data storage and blind computation. It utilizes multi-party computation (MPC) technology, allowing encrypted data to be processed without exposing the underlying information, thus providing a unique privacy-first data processing approach.

Gate News bot news, the robot smart platform startup PrismaX has announced its official establishment and completed a $11 million financing, led by a16z CSX, with follow-on investments from Stanford Blockchain Accelerator Builder Fund, Symbolic, Volt Capital, Virtuals Protocol, and other angel investors. The funds raised from this financing will be used to expand PrismaX's fleet, improve its remote operating standards, and expand its data collection portal, enabling the robotics company to access the remote operator community, helping them expand visual datasets and build smarter machines faster.

Gate News bot message, on-chain data records that trader James Wynn invested 39 ETH (approximately $104,000) to purchase 24.46 trillion $ZEUS Tokens three hours ago. On-chain detective ZachXBT disclosed that the market maker Darkpool associated with the ZEUS project explicitly mentioned operations such as chart painting and spoofing in its financing materials. It is reported that the operator of Darkpool currently serves as one of the main leaders of the ZEUS project and has previously participated in multiple projects as a technical director. Source: Wu Says

Gate News bot news, tech giant Amazon will use the 1.92 k megawatts of power provided by Talen Energy's Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania to power its AWS cloud and AI servers. Following Microsoft and Meta, Amazon is the latest hyperscale company to directly partner with a large nuclear power plant operator. This deal by Amazon was announced on Wednesday, but it is not a new protocol; rather, it modifies an existing agreement with Talen. The old agreement stipulated that Amazon would build a data center next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant and draw power directly from the facility without first delivering it to the grid. The deal was blocked by regulators over concerns that customers would unfairly bear the burden of grid operations. Currently, Susquehanna Power Company supplies power to the grid, meaning that every kilowatt-hour of power includes transmission fees for supporting grid maintenance and development. Amazon's user-side solution can avoid these fees.

According to the Gate News bot and Cointelegraph, law enforcement in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, discovered a large-scale electricity theft for mining in the Baikal Lake area. The authorities seized a modified KamAZ truck, which contained 95 crypto mining rigs and a mobile transformer, illegally tapping into a 10 kV power line. The amount of electricity stolen by the mining farm is equivalent to the consumption of a small village. The local grid operator Rosseti Siberia has reported that this is the 6th case of electricity theft from a mining farm in Buryatia this year. At the scene of the incident, two suspects fled in an SUV. A large number of illegal electricity connections led to voltage drops and overloads in the regional grid, increasing the likelihood of power outages.

Golden Finance reports that Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin ATM and fintech company Bitcoin Depot has announced that after purchasing approximately 62 BTC in February this year, it has further increased its Bitcoin holdings, which have now exceeded 100 coins. The company also announced that it has acquired the assets of Bitcoin ATM operator Pelicoin, and all of Pelicoin's equipment will transition to the Bitcoin Depot brand.

Odaily News Bitcoin Depot, a Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin ATM and fintech company, announced the acquisition of the assets of Bitcoin ATM operator Pelicoin, including the company's self-service terminals in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas. The specific acquisition amount has not been disclosed. It is reported that Pelicoin's ATM network will be fully integrated into the Bitcoin Depot platform in the coming weeks, and all devices will transition to Bitcoin Depot.

Gate News bot message, Romania's largest postal service operator Posta Romana will install Bitcoin and Crypto Assets terminals.

According to Golden Finance reports, citing insiders from Bloomberg, Bitcoin ATM operator CoinFlip may join the Crypto Assets merger and acquisition frenzy, as the company is seeking a buyer for $1 billion. CoinFlip has hired a financial advisor to assist it in completing the initial sale phase. Bloomberg reports that, although CoinFlip aims to raise at least $1 billion, it is uncertain whether the company can achieve this goal and whether the sale can proceed smoothly. CoinFlip is the second largest Crypto Assets ATM operator after Bitcoin Depot, with data from CoinATMRadar showing that the latter maintains nearly 8,700 Bitcoin ATMs. According to CoinATMRadar, CoinFlip's ATMs are spread across the globe,

Gate News bot message, Bitcoin ATM operator CoinFlip has initiated a sale process for the company. The company has hired a financial advisor to assist in finding potential buyers, with a preliminary valuation target set at over $1 billion. CoinFlip was founded in 2015 and currently operates over 5,500 Bitcoin ATMs in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other locations. Sources familiar with the matter reveal that the sale discussions are still in the early stages.

Gate News bot reported that the Czech opposition party ANO called for a vote of no confidence in the government on Tuesday, after Justice Minister Pavel Blazek resigned after accepting BTC donated by criminals. The Ministry of Justice previously announced on the social platform X that it would receive about 1 billion CZK (about $45 million) through the auction of nearly 500 BTC. A follow-up Czech news outlet, Denik N, discovered that the BTC came from Tomas Jirikovsky, the operator of the convicted Sheep Marketplace on the dark web platform. In March, Jirikovsky's lawyer offered Blazek a one-third of his BTC donation, but Blazek accepted the donation without fully investigating the source of the funds, which drew widespread condemnation. Before his resignation, the minister denied any legal impropriety in accepting Jirikovsky's donations.

The Czech Minister of Justice resigned in disgrace due to the department's sale of Bitcoin donated by convicted criminals. The Czech Ministry of Justice auctioned nearly 500 BTC for about 1 billion crowns, but the donations came from a convicted dark web platform operator. Lawyers proposed the donation without thoroughly investigating the source of the funds. The police are investigating the source of the BTC.

Gate News bot message, Bitcoin smart Multi-signature Wallet operator Asigna has completed a $3 million financing, led by Hivemind Capital and Tykhe Block Ventures, with participation from Sats Ventures, Trust Machines, and others. Asigna plans to launch several feature upgrades in the V2 version: users will interact directly with Bitcoin applications through embedded applications, enabling direct exchanges between Bitcoin and assets. Additionally, the new version will provide connection and multi-signature SDKs, and add features such as sub-accounts, governance, and privacy modes.