Research Editor
Zain is a research editor at BTC Newz. Zain chooses the crypto and Bitcoin stories worth scrutinising, gathers the primary sources behind them, and uses AI tools to structure and sharpen the reporting; every article is then cross-checked against its sources, edited and finalised by hand before publication.
Background: Editorial team member at BTC Newz; researches crypto markets, regulation and protocols, verifies each claim against its primary source, and edits AI-assisted drafts to publication. This is general information, not financial or investment advice.
Bybit clients can now pledge shares of Franklin Templeton's tokenized money market fund, worth about $686 million, as collateral to borrow USDT or USDC while the assets stay in custody and keep earning yield.
Buying Bitcoin in the UAE is legal if you use a licensed platform. Here is who regulates crypto in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, what you need to open an account, and how to buy in dirhams without getting caught out.
The SEC approved generic listing standards in September 2025, letting qualifying crypto exchange-traded products list without a case-by-case 19b-4 order. Backers say listings that once took up to 240 days may now take as little as 75. Here is how the mechanism works, and its limits.
Crypto casino Duelbits went offline after attackers drained about $7 million from hot wallets on four blockchains, in a suspected private-key compromise. Its co-founder says user funds are safe. That reassurance, as ever, is the platform’s own.
New York’s attorney general sued Polymarket as an unlicensed gambling operation. Hours later Polymarket countersued, arguing its event contracts are federally regulated swaps that a state cannot touch. The label, market or bet, is now a legal question.
Daily ETF flow figures have become a headline in their own right. Here is what the number actually measures, why creation and redemption matter more than the total, and how to read it without being sold a story.