Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a $55.9 billion state budget that includes a new tax on digital asset transactions. Starting January 1, 2027, brokers will be required to charge 0.2% of the value of the exchange, transfer, custody and other operations with digital assets for clients from the state. The measure was opposed by the Crypto Council for Innovation, Digital…

The crypto platform World Liberty Financial (WLFI), linked to US President Donald Trump and his family, is nearing receipt of a national trust bank charter from the OCC. This is reported by the outlet NOTUS, citing sources familiar with the matter. Recall that the company filed its charter application back on January 5, 2026. If it…

The price of HYPE reached a new all-time high of around $77 amid growing inflows into ETFs, and experts are forecasting targets from $83 to $300.

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has urged long-term investors to obsess less over finding the bottom and to look toward bitcoin's next bull cycle. The expert compared the forecasts of three research firms — Galaxy Digital, NYDIG and Standard Chartered. He stressed that the companies' representatives did not reach a single conclusion on whether…

Elon Musk has officially overtaken bitcoin. His net worth rose to a record $1.4 trillion and for the first time exceeded bitcoin's total market cap after a sharp jump amid a rise in SpaceX (SPCX) shares. The reason for this historic event is SpaceX's massive IPO. How Musk became «bigger» than bitcoin Something like this, when one person's net worth becomes greater than the sum…