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Three recent academic papers explore how to price cryptocurrencies when—unlike companies—they don’t have balance sheets.

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The looming sale of up to $1.3 billion in Ethereum seized from PlusToken could “dramatically increase selling pressure,” analysts said.

Are they for real this time? With the token launch and airdrop set for late October, Telegram game X Empire will cut off its gameplay soon.

Off the Grid just launched on PS5, Xbox, and PC in early access, and it’s already a hit with players—oh, and it’s a blockchain game.

Horst Jicha is being treated as a fugitive after the accused crypto scammer’s ankle monitor went dark and he skipped a pre-trial meeting.

Majors drop despite stocks hitting ATHs. Stripe reinstates crypto payments. Crypto settlements near $20bn in 2024. S. Korea to review ban on BTC ETFs. US charges market makers for market manipulation. FBI created their own coin to ensnare targets. Vitalik ‘outside pick’ for Nobel Prize. Trump family token to built on Aave stack. $16m OP … Read more

BTC will be range bound until election: Bernstein. TAO & memecoins dominate mindshare. Peter Todd ‘revealed’ as Satoshi by HBO. US government able to sell $4.4bn Silk Road BTC. Ireland unable to access $378m seized BTC. SOL could do 5x if Trump wins: StanChart. Coinbase integrates Taproot addresses for BTC. Canary Capital applies for XRP … Read more

BTC briefly dips under $59k, $160m liquidations. Mt Gox extends repayment plan by 1 year. Uniswap plans L2 for DeFi. SEC sues crypto trading firm Cumberland. Binomial sues SEC over futures trading. SEC’s Uyeda criticises agency’s policy. Justin Sun named prime minister of Liberland. MicroStrategy wants to become BTC bank. Binance pre-market trading goes live. … Read more

Numerous token projects now claim they have severed ties with market maker Gotbit after it was hit with market manipulation charges.

An FEC filing released this week shows that Chris Larsen donated more than 1,700,000 XRP to the Future Forward USA PAC.

Following its early access release, the Avalanche-based battle royale shooter Off the Grid saw notable traction on the Epic Games Store.

The Donald Trump-backed DeFi project World Liberty Financial will launch its token sale for accredited investors next week.

The S&P 500 is up 60% over the last two years, but Bitcoin’s price jump during the same span has crushed that mark.

Platforms like Polymarket are attracting billions of dollars in bets, but appear to be doing little to prevent insider trading. Is that a flaw, or a feature?

Players who withdrew their HMSTR tokens will have the option to deposit them into Hamster Kombat for benefits, the devs told Decrypt.

With nearly $16 billion worth of Bitcoin in the bank, MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor shares big plans ahead for BTC.

Lloyd features in a new promo film for the digital collectibles, which unlock exclusive prizes including a new DeLorean EV.

The X token launch is less than two weeks away, and will follow X Empire’s brief “chill phase” season after the airdrop was delayed.

Ryan Salame’s latest request for a prison postponement wasn’t granted, due in part to a Tucker Carlson video interview posted this week.

DeLorean Labs will be giving away a brand new electric vehicle.

Mt. Gox now has another full year to repay billions of dollars in Bitcoin to users of the hacked exchange. Here’s why BTC is now rising.

Karate Combat, a crypto-friendly fighting organization, is set to launch a layer-2 next year in a move to help other sports copy its betting app.

Some “components of this cycle, such as altcoin seasons or bull runs, might have different timelines than we’re used to seeing,” an analyst said.

Gierczyk sold his $1.59 million claim to the hedge fund last year at what he says was a 42% discount.

Gambaryan has “suffered countless health scares,” the family spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

The late-night presentation showed off Tesla’s new line of self-driving vehicles and updates to its Optimus robots.

Salame, who once held a high-flying position at FTX, is now one of several executives to face consequences following the exchange’s fall

Metaplanet’s latest purchase brings the company’s total Bitcoin holdings to 748.502 BTC, reinforcing its long-term bet on the leading crypto.

On Thursday, the SEC charged Cumberland DRW with various securities allegations, though bellwether Bitcoin has so far shrugged it off.