Bitcoin may stage a recovery above the key $90,000 psychological mark amid easing monetary inflation concerns in the world’s largest economy. Bitcoin’s (BTC) over two-month downtrend has raised numerous alarms that the current Bitcoin bull cycle may be over, defying the theory of the four-year market cycle. Despite widespread investor concerns, Bitcoin may be on … Read more
The Playdate is the size of a Post-it note, and it is loved. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge In a time when video game consoles are becoming more powerful and more connected than ever and AAA games are massive, bloated endeavors, Untitled Goose Game publisher Panic decided to go back to basics … Read more
The Playdate, Panic’s cranky little console that could, is going to get $30 more expensive next week. Panic announced the increase in an email to customers, bringing the bright yellow handheld’s price from $199 to $229. Yeah, so, guess what: after getting up and running at our new factory, they soon let us know that … Read more
Suno wasnât supposed to be an important part of Amazonâs Alexa Plus presentation. The AI song generation platform was a minor demonstration of how Alexa Plus could integrate into other apps, sandwiched between other announcements. But it caught my attention all the same â because whether Amazon realized it or not, the company blundered into … Read more
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s multi-year enforcement action against Ripple is finally coming to an end, according to the company CEO. “This is it — the moment we’ve been waiting for. The SEC will drop its appeal — a resounding victory for Ripple, for crypto, every way you look at it,” Ripple CEO … Read more
XRP jumped 10% on Wednesday during U.S. morning hours as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to drop its appeal against Ripple, the company closely adjacent to XRP tokens “This is it – the moment we’ve been waiting for. The SEC will drop its appeal,” Garlinghouse posted … Read more
“I’m finally able to announce that this case has ended. It’s over,” Garlinghouse said in a video shared on his X account.
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2652.8, up 3.4% (+86.98) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. All 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: NEAR (+7.3%) and AAVE (+6.1%). Laggards: BCH (+1.9%) and BTC (+2.0%). The … Read more
The Bitcoin price was largely unmoved as Bank of Japan voted unanimously to leave its interest rate unchanged. Will the Fed do the same?
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the U.S. Federal Reserve’s monetary policy-making body, is slated to publish its rate review later in the day, along with growth and inflation projections and interest rate forecast. The widely-watched event is likely to breed crypto market volatility, spurring 3% to 5% price swings in bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) … Read more
Victims of address poisoning scams were tricked into willingly sending over $1.2 million worth of funds to scammers, showcasing the problematic rise of cryptocurrency phishing attacks. Address poisoning, or wallet poisoning scams, involves tricking victims into sending their digital assets to fraudulent addresses belonging to scammers. Pig butchering schemes on Ethereum have cost the crypto … Read more
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price action has closely mirrored that of the US equity market in recent years, particularly the tech-heavy Nasdaq and the benchmark S&P 500. Now, as fund managers stage a historic exodus from US stocks, the question arises: could Bitcoin be the next casualty? Fund managers dump US stocks at record monthly pace Investors … Read more
Googleâs latest acquisition is its most expensive yet â and perhaps its riskiest, too. On Tuesday, the search giant announced that it acquired the cloud security startup Wiz for $32 billion. Itâs a major bet that Wiz can help beef up Googleâs cloud business, which makes far less money than the offerings built by its … Read more
Blockdaemon, a leading provider of crypto infrastructure, has acquired expand.network, a single API connection into the multifarious world of decentralized finance (DeFi), with a view to enabling big financial institutions to seamlessly access on-chain trading. The exact price paid for expand.network was not revealed, but Blockdaemon said the deal was worth double digit millions of … Read more
Booking an ad campaign with social media influencers is currently not exactly easy. For starters, influencers’ approaches to marketing can be unconventional, and there’s no standard way to engage with them. On the other side, marketing agencies that employ hosts of people to book and track brand campaigns are limited by how many influencers they … Read more
The multinational bank has slashed its 2025 price target for ETH, citing profit taking on the part of the crypto exchange.
BATANGAS, PHILIPPINES – MARCH 14: The USAID logo is seen on a computer at the Inclusive Education Community Resource Center, part of a USAID-funded initiative aimed at enhancing educational opportunities for learners with disabilities impacted by the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid. President Donald Trump and Elon Muskâs slash-and-burn approach to the US government … Read more
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Ether (ETH) zoomed nearly 7% in the past 24 hours to lead gains among majors as traders await the results of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Wednesday. ETH’s gains were coupled with a 4% gain in memecoin dogecoin (DOGE), which historically tends to act correlated to the asset’s movements. Other Ethereum-based memecoins … Read more
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:::info Authors: (1) Pham Hoang Van, Department of Economics, Baylor University Waco, TX, USA (Van Pham@baylor.edu); (2) Scott Cunningham, Department of Economics, Baylor University Waco, TX, USA (Scott Cunningham@baylor.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Direct vs Narrative Prediction 3 Prompting Methodology and Data Collection 4 Results 4.1 Establishing the Training Data … Read more