Under pressure Ledger unveils plan to turn its crypto hardware wallet into a smartphone
Ledger’s Atom will run apps like WhatsApp and Instragram and let users switch between smartphone functions and a protected mode for managing digital assets.
Ledger’s Atom will run apps like WhatsApp and Instragram and let users switch between smartphone functions and a protected mode for managing digital assets.
Bitcoin fell to just above $80,000 as South Korea’s Kospi plunged 8%, while the CoinDesk 80 fell 2.2% and all but six CoinDesk 100 members declined.
Jitters across equity markets are sending money into fixed income, with Western bond markets rallying strongly on Thursday.
Jeff Yan told Bloomberg that U.S. regulatory oversight should apply to the firms using the blockchain, not to the underlying network itself.
The country’s regulator, ASIC, has proposed tougher rules to protect users’ digital assets, crypto trading and to safeguard the country’s financial stability.
Police reportedly seized $4 million in cash and 64 luxury watches during a raid on the crypto founder’s Istanbul residence.
BlackRock’s CEO says “a moratorium of some sort” on data center buildouts would put the U.S. in a recession.
Ether accounted for nearly 60% of the forced closures across the two largest cryptocurrencies, falling roughly twice as much as bitcoin.
Computing power directed at Binance Pool has fallen from 26 EH/s in December to about 9 EH/s. Its remaining miners must choose another provider before a Nov. 10 cutoff.
Bets on an October Fed rate hike briefly spiked to nearly 50% after Wednesday’s inflation report, but have since cooled.
CEO Tarek Mansour said he feels “pretty good” about the pending outcome of the current legal fight over who has the right to regulate prediction markets.
U.S.-linked wallets account for just over 88% of tracked AI model payments, dwarfing China’s 0.1% share, according to new Chainalysis research.
The blockchain and AI developer platform has completed two years of audits and wants its shares available onchain from the first day of trading.
The asset manager’s crypto assets surged 63% to $79.6 billion as investors returned, but holdings remain 23% below year-ago levels.
Nasdaq-listed Perpetuals.com is the second company to pursue a U.S. tokenized stock marketplace under the SEC’s new framework, following a joint venture between OKX and NYSE parent ICE.
Congress must decide how the U.S. can build the infrastructure its booming digital economy requires while protecting the communities that host it.
Payward agreed to buy Lithuania’s Saldo Bank, which holds $190 million in total assets, securing an EU license for deposits and lending.
The news could put multiple rate hikes by the Federal Reserve back into play.
Backed by BBVA, BNP Paribas, and ING, Qivalis secured Dutch regulatory authorization to offer onchain euro settlement infrastructure.
Bitcoin briefly reached $84,000 before easing back, while the CoinDesk 80 fell 0.6% since midnight as traders waited for U.S. inflation data.
Hypercall, an exchange built on Hyperliquid, says most of its $640 million in volume since June has come from the index.
A brief run at $84,000 faded within the hour as tech stocks stalled and the chip selloff rolled on. Traders are waiting on the September CPI print.
Chainalysis CEO in France Francois Volpoet warned the proposed 31.4% tax on regulated stablecoins could push traders toward unmonitored offshore channels.
The bank manages custody and settlement in-house via a closed-loop model, removing the need for separate crypto wallets.
Coinbase says bitcoin should start preparing for quantum computers now, with flexible addresses, a backup quantum-proof key and a separate debate over lost coins.
The integration will let software pay for online services using XRP and RLUSD, while questions remain about how much real economic activity the transactions represent.
The switch will replace Solana’s existing validator voting system, remove vote transactions from blocks and could sharply change headline transaction counts even if user activity stays flat.