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Ether and solana led crypto higher on Friday as a squeeze on bearish traders pushed bitcoin toward $62,000, capping the market's first genuinely strong week since mid June.
Securitize (SECZ), a tokenization specialist backed by BlackRock and ARK Invest, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, and simultaneously brought its own shares to blockchain investors.
Asset manager Bitwise said the sharp decline in Strategy’s (MSTR) perpetual preferred stock, STRC, is a hallmark of a maturing crypto cycle rather than evidence of a looming crisis at the company.
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added 134 crypto wallet addresses to its ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) sanctions entry on Wednesday, including 131 Tron addresses and 3 Monero addresses.
OpenAI has explored the idea of granting the U.S. government a 5% equity stake as part of efforts to strengthen ties with the Trump administration and broaden public participation in the benefits of artificial intellige…
K Wave Media, a Nasdaq-listed Korean media company, has filed to raise up to $250 million from investors, according to a June 30 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, weeks after abandoning a bitcoin …
U.S. jobs growth disappointed last month, with the data likely to set back market expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike as soon as this summer or early Fall.
It’s been six years since Europe’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) was first mooted and three years since it was enacted. A lot has changed in the meantime, not the least the growing interest from businesses and individ…
Memecore’s M and Audiera’s BEAT have gained 81% and 12%, respectively, making them the best performers among the top 100 coins by market value. At No. 3, Venice Token (VVV) is up 9%.
Ethereum layer-2 scaling network Taiko’s cross-chain bridge is back online, just 10 days after the June 22 hack.
XRP is starting to show signs of accumulation near $1, but the chart has not fully caught up. The token edged higher after a sharp intraday volume spike, while new wallet creation reached its strongest level in three mo…
According to analysis of blockchain data by Glassnode, positive undercurrents are forming beneath the surface, contradicting the bearish sentiment following June's 20% drop.
FBI Director Kash Patel failed to timely disclose a six-figure purchase of stock in Strategy (MSTR), the world's largest publicly-listed bitcoin holder, according to a report by nonpartisan news outlet NOTUS.
Bitcoin traded above $60,700 on Thursday after a quick overnight reversal after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation risks had eased, giving a market that spent most of June grinding lower its first clear li…
Robinhood (HOOD) officially launched the public mainnet for Robinhood Chain, marking the company's biggest step yet into onchain financial infrastructure as it looks to expand beyond brokerage services and into decentra…
The Ethereum Foundation is making a fresh push to position Ethereum as critical public infrastructure for governments and institutions, publishing a new policy guide on Wednesday that argues the blockchain's decentraliz…
Wall Street bank Cantor Fitzgerald said crypto markets are entering the final stage of the current bear cycle, with bitcoin's
The bank lowered its base-case forecast for bitcoin to $82,000 from $112,000 and cut its ether target to $2,240 from $3,175. It now assumes no net ETF inflows over the next year, abandoning an earlier expectation that r…
With the end of MiCA’s transitional period fast approaching, the European Union is finally cracking down on unlicensed crypto exchanges in an effort to purge the continent’s spot markets of rogue operators and protect E…
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s tech newsletter covering the most important stories in blockchain. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk.
Circle (CRCL) shares bounced 5% Wednesday after a 17% plunge, as investors are weighing whether the new Open USD stablecoin consortium backed by Stripe, Mastercard, Coinbase and BlackRock poses a lasting threat to the U…
Crédit Agricole (ACA), France's second-largest bank by assets, unveiled a euro-pegged stablecoin, a rival to offerings from smaller peer Société Générale (GLE) and Circle Internet (CRCL) in a market that's also targeted…
The European Union's (EU) transitional grandfathering period under its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation ends on July 1, forcing crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) who have yet to attain full licensing unde…
Ark Invest has a tendency to load up on shares in cryptocurrency companies when their prices are depressed, and June was no exception.
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