HIVE Digital Technologies reported $297.8 million in total revenue for the full year ended March 31, up 158% year over year.The company reduced its bitcoin holdings from 481 BTC to 150 BTC during the final quarter, while its bitcoin mining revenue fell 23.9%.

Chairman Tom Lee said the company would reach its 5% acquisition target “sometime in 2026,” after previously announcing it would slow its pace, which had been on target for July.Bitmine is the second-largest digital asset treasury after Strategy.

“Contrarian bets are won by looking in the places no one is looking and acting in ways that may feel awkward,” Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said in a weekly note.The relative attractiveness of AI stocks and uncertainty around the Clarity Act have put crypto in a tough spot for institutional investors.

Brazil’s central bank will require crypto service providers to submit independent audit reports when applying for or renewing licenses.The audits will review anti-money laundering controls, customer asset segregation, risk management systems, and employee compliance programs.The new rule could raise compliance costs for smaller crypto firms, while major exchanges may continue pursuing access to Brazil’s large market.

Vault infrastructure provider Veda is opening its enterprise vaults to the more than 2,000 developer teams building on Stripe-owned wallet firm Privy through a self-serve API.The same vault stack that powers Kraken DeFi Earn and EtherFi’s Liquid was previously available only through bespoke institutional deals, Veda co-founder and CEO Sunand Raghupathi told The Block.Two vaults built on Veda’s non-custodial BoringVault standard will be available at launch, with general availability set for next month, the companies said.

Citi sees tokenized securities growing from $17 billion today to $5.5 trillion by 2030 globally.The bank expects tokenized Treasury bills and digital stocks to drive major on-chain demand ahead.RWA growth shows Treasuries and institutional tokenization are already gaining strong market traction.

Base Azul brings TEE and ZK proofs to reduce withdrawal finality to one day potentially.Node operators must move to base-reth-node and base-consensus after older clients lose Azul support now.Base reports 5,000 TPS bursts and 99% fewer empty blocks after client stack changes recently.

Coinbase said it is backing Ethena after purchasing ENA on the open market.The exchange also flagged a partnership that includes the USDC stablecoin.

Just a day after the nearly $1 trillion AI giant revealed IPO plans, Anthropic is letting more firms access its powerful Claude Mythos model.

Twenty One received an NYSE notice after its audit committee fell below the required independent member count.The issue followed Tether’s purchase of SoftBank’s 89.1M Class A shares and SoftBank board exits.The company says it expects to appoint a qualified audit committee member as soon as practicable.

Bill Zanker, a longtime Trump associate, will take the top 19 holders of the president’s meme coin to the World Cup Finals next month—and has plans for ongoing exclusive events.

Onchain Pokémon card revenue has surged 337% as 30th-anniversary mania lifts tokenized markets.The following is excerpted from The Block’s Data and Insights newsletter.

Rockstar has confirmed a November 19, 2026 launch for GTA VI, but said nothing concrete about on-chain assets or real crypto railsCrypto and gaming communities are split between those fantasizing about NFTs, in-game tokens and wallets and those pointing to Rockstar’s explicit anti-crypto termsThe most realistic scenario is a satire-rich, “crypto flavored” in-game economy, not a permissionless Web3 experiment that threatens Rockstar’s control over GTA Online-like cash flows

Pavel Durov said Toncoin will be renamed Gram, restoring the token’s original identity as defined in TON’s first white paper.TON rose 18.75% to $2.19 after traders reacted to the rebrand and Telegram’s stronger role in the ecosystem.Durov said the rebrand will take about three weeks and will not require any token swap.