The launch of Ethereum Institutional on Wednesday was met with widespread support across the Ethereum ecosystem, with industry leaders arguing the initiative will strengthen Ethereum's position as institutional adoption…
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…
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…
Wall Street bank Cantor Fitzgerald said crypto markets are entering the final stage of the current bear cycle, with bitcoin's
The first half of the year was defined by the AI trade. The second half may be defined by a tougher question: Which companies and assets actually stand to benefit from it?
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…
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…
Investment bank Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Morpho, calling the lending protocol a dual-play on decentralized finance (DeFi) that combines a lending market with infrastructure for onchain banks and asse…
A new independent non-profit, Ethereum Institutional, has launched with the goal of accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum, its layer-2 networks and the broader ecosystem.
Warsh declined to provide guidance on the Federal Reserve's next interest-rate decision, saying policymakers would debate incoming data at their meeting in four weekds, during a panel discussion at the European Central …
World, the mysterious Solana project that garnered millions of views on X with little more than a glowing globe, cryptic posts and the tagline “Trade Everything,” is now live as a fully onchain prediction market inside …
Christopher Alexander Delgado, the former CEO of Goliath Ventures, pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering charges stemming from a crypto investment scheme prosecutors said stole at least $400 million from investor…
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…
Tokenized equities trading platform Edel Finance paused its lending protocol on Tuesday after an attacker exploited how it priced a tokenized stock, borrowing against collateral inflated to roughly 78 times its true val…
The European Union's crypto market entered a new era on Wednesday as its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation came into full effect, meaning crypto firms serving customers across the 27-nation bloc are required to…
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…
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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…
Ether (ETH) is at $1,580, having also experienced a slight relief bounce since 01:00 UTC.
The largest cryptocurrency fell 22.2% in the first quarter and another 14.09% in the second, according to Coinglass data, and was trading just above $59,000 on Wednesday as the third quarter began.
Aave, one of the largest decentralized lending protocols by locked value, recorded its strongest day of new-wallet creation in almost five years on June 30, a sign of fresh interest in the AAVE token even as the wider c…
XRP is still pinned near $1, but the selling pressure is no longer coming from the same crowded leverage that drove the earlier decline. The token slipped 1% over the session, then bounced from support as open interest …
Taiwan has taken a major step forward in overseeing its digital asset sector by enacting comprehensive new regulations for cryptocurrency operations.
Anthropic is restoring access to its two most advanced AI models after the U.S. government lifted the export controls that forced it to pull them last month.