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Bitcoin ETFs are booming while investors wait on the SEC’s next Ethereum ETF application deadline on Thursday.

After 5 billion GALA tokens were minted and swiped Monday, Gala Games got back some of the funds in ETH—and is still figuring out the rest.

The presidential hopeful isn’t just a fan of Bitcoin, going in on meme stocks and telling crypto fans “I ride with you.”

Critics say a headline feature of Microsoft’s new AI-centric laptops and tablets is a privacy nightmare.

We must avoid a world where “most human thought becomes read and mediated by a few central servers controlled by a few people,” he said.

A complex entanglement between central banks over the Japanese yen will lead to frantic money printing, blowing up asset prices worldwide, says the BitMEX co-founder.

After getting mogged by NFT holders at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump is living up to his promise to accept crypto donations.

Open interest just hit a record high for Ethereum futures contracts, a CoinGlass analysis shows.

After receiving a Wells Notice last month, the maker of decentralized exchange Uniswap pushed back against the SEC’s claims.

Farcaster, a decentralized social media protocol built on Ethereum, just got a sizable infusion of funding as it eyes expansion.

Solana hero shooter Nyan Heroes launched its NYAN token as the current Epic Games Store play-to-airdrop campaign continues.

Meme coins are hitting record highs on one of crypto’s biggest days in recent memory, with Ethereum’s PEPE setting a new peak price.

Short traders are “swimming against the tide” before an incoming second wave of ETF demand, says one Glassnode analyst.

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Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin believes the network isn’t “unified”—and that a new guild should be formed to resolve this issue.

FLock says community engagement and user-generated “quality data” will help decentralized AI compete with big tech.

Ethereum ETFs could get the green light this week, says Standard Chartered—and both Bitcoin and Ethereum will set new high prices as a result.

Spot Ethereum ETF filers have removed mentions of staking funds from their registration statements. One analyst says they “bent the knee” to the SEC.

The late rumor yesterday caused Ethereum trading volume to spike by 219% in the past day, according to Coinglass.

Yuga Labs revealed Nina Chanel Abney’s Super Punks World NFT collection Monday, but will “no longer touch” CryptoPunks following backlash.

An attacker used an exploit to mint and swipe 5 billion Gala Games (GALA) tokens Monday, with the firm calling it an “isolated incident.”

The ETH ecosystem is mooning on the renewed belief that an ETF approval is near, and most cryptocurrencies are rising with it.

UPDATE: With Bitcoin rising again after its recent all-time high surge, here’s an expanded list of games that pay out BTC rewards.

Prometheum’s move to offer Ethereum custody services sparked backlash from a crypto advocacy group that claims it’s in cahoots with the SEC.

The Redmond tech giant unveiled the “designed for AI” Copilot+ PC that indexes everything displayed on screen.

The two top cryptocurrencies are leading a parade of rising coins today.

The Taiwanese national was arrested in New York over the weekend, indicted for facilitating $100 million in illicit drug sales on the dark web.

Bitcoin is back above $70,000 for the first time in over a month as investors throw money at ETFs again—and hype over Ethereum ETFs grows.

The price of Ethereum jumped by 9% in about 20 minutes on Monday amid fresh speculation that spot ETFs will indeed be approved this week.

The once-dominant Ethereum NFT collection continues to shed value. How low can the Bored Ape Yacht Club go?