Bitcoin shoots higher on Iran peace deal, with Strait of Hormuz set to open
The US and Iran said they reached an interim agreement to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with the deal to be signed in Switzerland on Friday.
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Bitcoin could crash to $48,000, if this historical pattern is triggered
The pattern works like this. Draw Fibonacci retracements from near zero – BTC began trading at $0.003 in February 2010 – to bull market peaks reached in June 2011, November 2013, December 2017, and November 2021.
Summer of crypto (regs): State of Crypto
Technically speaking, summer hasn't started yet and won't for another week. But it's over 90°F in New York, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to work through crypto tax legislation, the Commodity Futures…
Wall Street and crypto are crashing into each other as tokenized treasury markets hit $14.6 billion
A significant transformation is currently underway across the established cryptocurrency market. The top crypto exchanges are morphing into multi-asset financial platforms, breaking down the traditional barriers that on…
Aerodrome is turning liquidity into a prediction market with its biggest upgrade yet
Aerodrome, the largest decentralized exchange (DEX) on Coinbase's Base network, is preparing for what its developers believe could be the next evolution of onchain markets.
SEC's big swing to clear tokenization path isn't likely to get resilience of full rule
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing one of the most consequential of Chairman Paul Atkins' crypto policies, a new approach that grants some regulatory leeway to those seeking to tokenize securities,…
Stablecoins Were Meant to Disrupt Finance. Instead, They Became Idle Cash.
Stablecoins are probably crypto’s clearest success story, and rightly so. They became the industry’s monetary primitive; the dollar layer for trading, collateral, payments and settlement.
Crypto’s next billion-dollar hacker may move at superhuman speed
The newest AI model from Anthropic, which gives users access to stronger, faster reasoning and coding capabilities, lands in a crypto market beset by security problems and could well exacerbate them.
Tokenization mirrors the $20 trillion ETF boom as blockchain and AI converge, Ondo exec says
The market for tokenized assets is growing quickly, but John Hoffman thinks the biggest wave of demand hasn't arrived yet: artificial intelligence.
Wall Street is moving past crypto pilots and deeper into Ethereum, says Etherealize founder
Ethereum's institutional adoption story may finally be moving beyond theory and into practice, according to Vivek Raman, founder of Etherealize, a company with the stated goal of bringing Ethereum to Wall Street.
Saylor to Musk: Thanks to you, 25% of 'Mag8' firms now hold bitcoin
Michael Saylor, co-founder of Strategy, the world's largest publicly listed bitcoin holder, has a new term for Wall Street's most elite stocks and a congratulatory message for Elon Musk.
Bitcoin rises above $64,000 after Pakistan prime minister says Iran peace deal is near
Bitcoin climbed above $64,000 on Saturday, reaching an intraday high of more than $64,200. The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is up more than 1% over the past 24 hours and is now up over 8% from its Jun…
Here's what SpaceX's IPO means for its $1.3 billion bitcoin reserve
SpaceX's Nasdaq debut on Friday did something quieter than the record $75 billion raise. It puts the largest bitcoin position ever attached to an IPO onto public markets, and under a framing that corporate America has n…
Crypto should adopt the best of centralization, says LMAX CEO
For years, crypto's ideological center of gravity has been pulled toward decentralization.
Ripple wants AI agents to pay in XRP and RLUSD. The market is still mostly USDC
Ripple is trying to put XRP and RLUSD into the market for AI-agent payments in an environment that is still mostly paying in the dollar-pegged USDC stablecoin.
Anthropic's pre-IPO shares fall as U.S. government shuts down its most powerful AI model
The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to shut down its two most capable AI models on Friday, and the pre-IPO market for Anthropic shares sold off immediately.
Bitcoin steadies above $63,000 as its worst week in months got a late macro rescue
The largest crypto opened near $73,000 last Sunday, slid below $60,000 for the first time since the U.S. election in November 2024, and recovered to about $63,500 by Saturday, according to CoinDesk data. It remains roug…
SpaceX IPO scramble reveals difference between tokenizing a stock and getting one
The race to get into the SpaceX IPO left many crypto investors on the sidelines.
Top cryptographers can't agree on Bitcoin's biggest quantum question
A Coinbase-convened advisory board of some of the most prominent cryptographers in the world has laid out what Bitcoin should do about the millions of coins a future quantum computer could steal, and on the hardest ques…
The U.S. government is betting $2 Billion on quantum computing, and the defense side can't keep up
Last month, the United States Commerce Department signed letters of intent to award just over $2 billion to nine quantum computing companies building the machines that break the cryptography defending Bitcoin and Ethere…
Bitcoin hit bottom at $59,000 marking end to the crypto winter, says Standard Chartered analyst
The cryptocurrency market reached its definitive bottom for the currency cycle, Standard Chartered Analyst Geoffrey Kendrick said in a note on Friday.
Bloomberg Analyst: Most Bitcoin ETF Investors Have Stayed Put Despite Outflows
Latest developments: Crypto markets are under pressure as Bitcoin sits around $60,000 and ETF outflows continue.
Elon Musk's SpaceX soars 20% in blockbuster Nasdaq debut
SpaceX shares opened at $150 on Friday before rising to $162, marking a strong start to one of the most closely watched stock market debuts in recent years.
VanEck bets BNB’s real-world usage can stand out in a crowded crypto ETF market
Latest developments: VanEck recently launched the first U.S. spot BNB ETF, trading under the ticker VBNB on Nasdaq.