Crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) surged over 8% on Monday after market closing on news that the stock will be included in the broad-market S&P 500 stock index. The company would replace Discover Financial starting on May 19, according to an S&P press release. Discover Financial is being acquired by Capital One. The S&P 500 tracks … Read more
Blockchain technology could enable “a broad swath of novel use cases for securities” and foster “new kinds of market activities that many of the Commission’s legacy rules and regulations do not contemplate today,” Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins said. During his keynote address at the Commission’s May 12 roundtable on tokenization and … Read more
The Trump-tied Bitcoin mining company is going public.
Crypto exchange Coinbase will begin trading on the S&P 500 next week. Traders are celebrating the news, with the price rising after hours.
The regulator’s lone Democrat questioned why Wall Street should move on-chain during a crypto roundtable held Monday.
Key points: Bitcoin price saw profit booking near $105,819, signaling that bears remain active at higher levels. Select altcoins have continued to move higher, indicating increased investor interest. The SPX and the DXY are playing catch-up to Bitcoin following the US-China trade deal. Bitcoin (BTC) has started the new week on a cautious note, falling … Read more
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced partnerships between the city and financial firms as part of his crypto plans. In a May 12 press conference at Gracie Mansion, the the city’s official mayoral residence, Adams said June Ou, founder of financial services company Figure, and Richie Hecker, CEO of private equity firm Traction and … Read more
Education tech firm Classover Holdings (KIDZ) said in early May that it would sell $400 million worth of shares to buy solana. Its stock exploded higher. Shares of the thinly traded company, then with a market cap well shy of $50 million soared from $1.15 to more than $7 in just two sessions before settling … Read more
Brazilian authorities are seeking a ban on chat app Discord after a planned attack on LGBTQ+ attendees at a Lady Gaga concert. The country has targeted social media platforms in the past.
NEW YORK, NY — New York Mayor Eric Adams is making a pitch to crypto companies returning to the U.S. or expanding their presence in the country: set up shop in New York City. “This is the Empire State,” Adams said at a press briefing at Gracie Mansion on Monday. “We should be looking forward … Read more
The merger is the latest among companies focusing on buying and holding Bitcoin.
Key takeaways: Bitcoin lags as investors shift toward stocks after the US and China strike a deal that could end the current trade war. Macroeconomic conditions are swinging away from gold investing and back to stocks. Bitcoin (BTC) reached its highest price in over three months at $105,720 on May 12, but was unable to … Read more
Emerging technologies, including quantum computing, could potentially render the cryptography securing Bitcoin and other blockchain networks ineffective, asset manager BlackRock said in a regulatory filing. On May 9, BlackRock updated the registration statement for its iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT). The revised version addressed potential risks to the integrity of the Bitcoin network posed by quantum … Read more
In another addition to the old Wall Street maxim of “buy the rumor, sell the news,” bitcoin (BTC) has headed lower after the U.S. and China announced at least a temporary truce in their trade war. Bitcoin had been pumping higher since bottoming just under $75,000 in the days following President Trump’s early April Liberation … Read more
Tether’s USDt (USDT) surpassed a $150 billion market capitalization for the first time on May 12, marking a new milestone amid growing stablecoin adoption. USDt’s circulating supply has expanded by over 36% in the past year, with growth accelerating in November following the election of US President Donald Trump. USDt’s market cap growth over the … Read more
Key takeaways: Possible de-risking ahead of the May 13 CPI print could be playing a role in today’s BTC price correction. Bitcoin market structure and qualitative fundamentals remain bullish, suggesting today’s correction could be short-lived. Bitcoin (BTC) price briefly stumbled on May 12, falling to $102,388 after hitting an intraday high at $105,819 during the … Read more
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The last time ICON (ICX) was making headlines, it was at the height of the ICO bubble when it was competing with Tron and Filecoin to buy BitTorrent in a high-profile bidding war. ICON, once heralded as the “Korean Ethereum,” peaked early in 2018 but later struggled to retain relevance amid fierce competition and a … Read more
Anchorage Digital, a federally chartered crypto bank and custodian, said on Monday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire stablecoin issuer Mountain Protocol as part of its strategy to deepen support for institutional stablecoin use. Anchorage said it plans to fold the Mountain’s technology, team and licensing structure into its own operations, pending closing … Read more
U.S. authorities ordered Pratt and his accomplices to forfeit their Bitcoin in July 2024.
Leemon Baird first published his work on hashgraph consensus in 2016, positioning it as an alternative to traditional blockchain architectures. With a background in computer science and a career spanning both academia and industry, Baird co-founded Hedera to commercialize the technology. His academic trajectory is notable for his early work in neural networks and reinforcement … Read more
Publicly traded, AI-powered real estate platform DeFi Development Corp. just hit a notable milestone with its latest Solana purchase.
The crypto industry has been desperate for U.S. regulation as the last major piece in its global maturity puzzle, but sector veteran and compliance expert TuongVy Le, a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer, argues that what Congress and the regulators are working on isn’t just for today’s digital assets space but for the core … Read more
Stablecoins are on the verge of mainstream adoption this year as the Trump administration pushes ahead with landmark crypto legislation, investment bank Deutsche Bank said in a research report Monday. Despite some resistance in the Senate last week, the bank said it still expects to see some progress on the stablecoin regulatory front this year. … Read more
Bitcoin touched a four-month high of $105,500 early Monday, but then dipped after the U.S. revealed a partial tariffs pause with China.
Patel Real Estate Holdings (PREH) has launched a $100 million tokenization fund on the Chintai blockchain, aiming to give accredited investors access to institutional-grade real estate opportunities. The new PREH Multifamily Fund is a tokenized investment vehicle focused on vintage Class A multifamily units across the top 20 US growth markets, the company told Cointelegraph … Read more
After the successful deployment last week of Pectra, Ethereum’s biggest upgrade in more than a year, the network’s core developers are already shifting focus to the next major chain upgrade: Fusaka. Pectra, the biggest code change to Ethereum since the Merge in 2022, introduced key changes aimed at making staking easier for institutions, improving wallet … Read more
Brian Armstrong argued that excessive exposure to Bitcoin would have been too risky, though about a quarter of its net cash is in crypto.
Opinion by: Robin Singh, CEO of Koinly Is there a catch for Bitcoin hodlers, with the asset’s price up over 600,000% since the beginning of 2013? Perhaps — if governments keep waking up to Bitcoin’s value, the whole “you only pay tax when you sell” mantra could soon be a thing of the past. What … Read more
The Bitcoin software company is not slowing down its BTC buys.