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Cryptocurrency markets entered a quieter period ahead of the Good Friday holiday, with trading volumes declining as macro forces including oil prices and broader economic indicators continued to influ...
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood recently stated that Bitcoin has matured beyond the extreme volatility cycles that previously saw price drops exceeding 85% from peak levels. The comments come as Bitcoin ha...
Cambodia's government is advancing draft legislation that would impose severe penalties, including life imprisonment, on individuals operating large-scale cryptocurrency fraud operations. The move tar...
A recent Bank of Canada staff analysis examined Aave V3's performance throughout 2024, finding that the DeFi lending protocol successfully avoided accumulating bad debt by effectively shifting liquida...
Algorand has attracted renewed interest from the blockchain industry after Google researchers cited the network in a paper examining post-quantum cryptographic protocols. The mention highlights growin...
Polymarket has formalized a multi-year partnership agreement with Spain's premier soccer league, LaLiga, covering the United States and Canadian markets. The deal represents a strategic move by the pr...
Korea Investment & Securities, one of South Korea's leading brokerage firms, is reportedly pursuing an ownership stake in Coinone, a major domestic cryptocurrency exchange. The potential acquisition c...
Riot Platforms sold approximately $290 million worth of bitcoin during the first quarter of 2025, joining a growing trend among major mining companies pivoting their business strategies. The move refl...
Bitcoin market conditions continue to deteriorate as 8.2 million BTC now sit at a loss, according to recent data from on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant. While this figure represents a significan...
The decentralized finance sector experienced 34 separate security breaches in the first quarter of 2025, resulting in $169 million in stolen funds, according to data from DefiLlama. While this represe...
Stablecoin transactions reached $7.2 trillion in monthly volume during February, marking the first time digital dollar alternatives have surpassed the traditional Automated Clearing House (ACH) networ...
The International Monetary Fund released findings acknowledging tokenization's potential to streamline financial systems while flagging risks that could reshape how governments and financial instituti...
Bitcoin mining companies are adjusting their treasury strategies as profitability challenges intensify across the sector. Riot Platforms sold 3,778 BTC during the first quarter of 2025, representing a...
Circle plans to launch cirBTC, a wrapped Bitcoin product aimed at institutional clients, marking the stablecoin issuer's entry into a market currently dominated by BitGo and Coinbase. The move represe...
Canadian lawmakers have introduced legislation that would prohibit cryptocurrency donations to political parties, following earlier recommendations from the country's election oversight bodies. The pr...
The blockchain industry's focus on tokenizing novel assets may be misplaced, as high-liquidity traditional financial instruments present the most practical use cases for distributed ledger technology....
Coinbase and several major technology companies have aligned behind the x402 protocol, a new open-source framework for agentic AI that will operate under the governance of the Linux Foundation. The pr...
Bitcoin's largest annual conference has announced a technical panel examining quantum computing threats to the network, bringing together protocol engineers, researchers, and developers working on pot...
Bitcoin's trajectory toward $75,000 faces mounting obstacles as macroeconomic uncertainty, geopolitical tensions, and institutional selling pressure converge. For crypto professionals monitoring marke...
Coinbase has transferred its x402 payments protocol to the Linux Foundation, marking a significant shift toward open-source governance in the crypto payments infrastructure space. The move establishes...
