A U.S. judge sentenced Chinese businessman Miles Guo, the billionaire behind the fraudulent crypto venture Himalaya Coin, to 30 years in prison, long after a trial jury found the well-connected defendant was guilty of s…
The Clarity Act still faces significant hurdles despite clearing the Senate Banking Committee, with investment bank Jefferies warning that political uncertainty could fuel volatility across crypto markets in the coming …
Circle (CRCL) shares were lower by 8% in Tuesday morning trading after a consortium backed by some of the biggest names in payments, banking and crypto unveiled Open USD, a new stablecoin designed to challenge incumbent…
Bitcoin and ether tested critical multiyear support levels, with ether at a price it has bounced from twice before and bitcoin near its lowest since late 2024.
MetaMask has launched a new self-custodial account that combines stablecoin yield, payments and trading in a single product, as wallet providers increasingly compete to become broader financial platforms rather than sim…
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The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reduced the proposed capital requirements for stablecoin issuers as it set out its formal guidance for cryptocurrency regulations.
Nasdaq is expanding the distribution of its market data into blockchain infrastructure, making one of its flagship equity data products available through the Pyth Network as financial firms increasingly build trading an…
The range itself is normal. Bitcoin spent much of 2024, from March to October, consolidating between $55,000 and $70,000 with occasional overshoots in both directions. What makes the current setup riskier is its locatio…
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $231 million on Monday, with BlackRock's IBIT accounting for $300 million of outflows that other funds partly offset, including $50 million into ARKB and $35 million into GBTC, per SoSo…
Strategy (MSTR) stock is set to end the month around 41% lower, its worst monthly performance since 2022, with one trading day remaining.
The 52-week rolling correlation coefficient between Coinbase's BTC/USD pair and the USD/JPY pair from the currency markets now stands at -0.90, according to data source TradingView. That's the most negative reading sinc…
XRP is no longer getting hit by the same crowded leverage that drove the selloff from its highs, but buyers still have not done enough to change the chart.
Crypto companies are looking more closely at the United Arab Emirates as the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, or MiCA, approaches a July 1 deadline that will force firms without authorization to sto…
USDT, the world's largest dollar-pegged stablecoin, is trading well above face value on Indian crypto platforms. While local reports attribute the premium to a recent enforcement action, exchanges explain it as a simple…
Securitize, a tokenization specialist backed by BlackRock, said Monday it cleared a final major hurdle to becoming a public company after shareholders of Cantor Equity Partners II (CEPT) approved the firms' proposed mer…
JPMorgan said it is backing efforts to establish a U.S. regulatory framework for digital assets, but placed as much emphasis on the risks of crypto as the opportunities.
Ripple is pushing to add a lending layer to the XRP Ledger, the blockchain behind XRP, in a bid to let institutions borrow against assets they hold onchain rather than just issue and move them.
Tracking funds on a blockchain has typically required specialized tools, and the process can sometimes be opaque, but crypto analytics firm Chainalysis is taking a swing at solving that problem.
Crypto projects losing millions due to exploits and hacks are becoming almost daily headlines. So much so that some of this news had almost become background noise.
The rapid consolidation of the prediction market technology stack is raising the odds of a new wave of mergers and acquisitions across sports betting and financial markets, according to Wall Street broker Bernstein.
Ukraine has transferred seized cryptocurrency into state management for the first time in its history, according to the country's Prosecutor General's Office.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the largest Ethereum treasury company, bought 27,084 ether (ETH) last week, extending its accumulation streak despite another slide in crypto prices.
What was once dominated by lightly regulated crypto lenders is increasingly adopting the conventions of traditional finance, including conservative collateral management, greater transparency and more disciplined underw…