Australia News
Australian SMSF Crypto Holdings Slip 4% Despite Bitcoin Surge
Crypto holdings in Australian Self-Managed Super Funds (SMSFs) fell 4% year-on-year despite a broad crypto market rally, and Bitcoin hitting...
Crypto Giants Target Australia’s $4.3T Pension System as Next Growth Frontier
Some of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges are eyeing Australia’s AU$4.3 trillion superannuation system in a bid to attract ne...
Australia’s Monochrome Bitcoin ETF Tops $177M AUM With 1,002 BTC
Spot crypto ETFs have been the talk of the town since greenlit by the US Securities and Exchange Commission in 2024. The traditionalised for...
Crypto Collapse: Banned Hayvn Founder Resurfaces as Melbourne Mortgage Broker
Many Aussies probably remember Christopher Flinos, once the glossy frontman of Hayvn, the super regulated and very compliant crypto-payments...
Block Earner Raises $8M to Fuel Global Expansion and Expand Product Offerings
Sydney-based digital asset financial services firm, Block Earner, announced August 18 that it has secured AU$8 million in Series A funding, ...
Australia Blocks Polymarket After Regulator Targets Illegal Online Betting
Aussie internet service providers (ISPs) will soon block access to blockchain-based ‘prediction market’, Polymarket, after Australia’s...
Darwin Luxury Home Listed for $2.85m – or Bitcoin
A luxury residence in Fannie Bay has become what is believed to be the first property in the Northern Territory to be marketed with the opti...
IREN Overtakes MARA as Top Bitcoin Miner by Hashrate and Efficiency
Australian Bitcoin miner IREN Limited has outperformed its main rival, MARA Holdings, becoming the industry leader in hashrate efficiency an...
Aussie Fund Managers Team Up With OKX, Franklin Templeton to Boost Crypto Collateral Efficiency
Aussie digital asset investment firm JellyC has joined a new ‘collateral mirroring’ program that enables lower-risk institutional tradin...
Op-Ed: Australia’s AU$19B Tokenisation Gamble Needs Open Rails
Australia’s Project Acacia is a bold stress test of digital finance. Canberra has cleared fourteen institutions, among them the ANZ, CBA, ...
AFR: Carnegie Opens Crypto Gate for Super Funds and Family Offices
Mark Carnegie’s MHC Digital Group has partnered with Anchorage Digital, which is the only cryptocurrency firm holding a US federal banking...
Block Earner to Pioneer Bitcoin-Backed Home Deposits in Australia
One of Australia’s biggest crypto companies, Block Earner, is introducing a new mortgage model that allows Aussies to borrow against their...