Month: July 2025

José Fernández da Ponte, formerly the head of blockchain at PayPal, has left the fintech giant, where he oversaw the roll-out of digital currencies and stablecoins, to become president and chief growth officer of the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF). The foundation also said it appointed Jason Karsh, a former Block and Blockchain.com executive, as chief … Read more

Talos, an institutional trading technology provider for digital assets, is set to acquire crypto data firm Coin Metrics in a deal exceeding $100 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. The acquisition will combine Talos’s execution and portfolio management infrastructure with Coin Metrics’ blockchain analytics, market data, and index products, creating what the … Read more

BNB rose nearly 2% over the past 24-hour period to near the $700 mark, lifted by growing buyer appetite amid a wider cryptocurrency market rally. Across the broader crypto market, Binance maintained its grip as the top exchange in the second quarter, handling more than 35% of global trading volume, according to TokenInsights’ latest report. … Read more

Midas, a financial tokenization platform, said it is introducing two tokenized investment products on Etherlink, an Ethereum-compatible layer-2 overlay system for faster and cheaper transactions, built using the Tezos blockchain. The new products, mMEV and mRe7YIELD, are designed to offer opportunities in decentralized finance (DeFi) and are monitored by MEV Capital and Re7 Capital, respectively, … Read more

EMBARGO: July 16 – 8am ET Aethir, a decentralized GPU cloud network, teamed up with Credible Finance, a lending protocol, to introduce what they say is the first credit card and loan product powered by a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN). The move is designed to give Aethir’s native ATH token holders and node operators … Read more

BONK surged 18.2% over the past day, breaking decisively through multiple resistance levels to settle at $0.00003343 – its highest price in months. The rally comes amid renewed optimism in crypto markets, with altcoins leading a charge that saw total market capitalization edge higher on the back of rising open interest and technical momentum. From … Read more

PEPE surged more than 6% over the last 24 hours, climbing to $0.00001285. Volatility remained intense, with the token swinging between $0.000011981 and $0.000013081, a nearly 9% intraday range. While PEPE’s performance stands out, the CoinDesk Memecoin Index (CDMEME) surged 7.12% in the last 24 hours. That compares with a 3.3% gain in the CoinDesk … Read more

China Merchants Bank’s (CMBI) brokerage arm has attained a virtual assets license from Hong Kong, becoming the first Mainland China broker to do so, South China Morning Post (SCMP) said. The license, which was issued on Monday by the Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission, will allow the lender’s brokerage arm to offer crypto asset … Read more

By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Traders are waking up to discover the crypto rally still has legs. Bitcoin (BTC) is up 2% over the past 24 hours to $119,000 after U.S. consumer-price data stirred talk that tariffs are feeding inflation. Even though the dollar strengthened after the Tuesday report, demand pushed … Read more