Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Aster rebranded to become a crypto perpetual futures decentralized exchange in 2025, as perp DEX trading volume surged by trillions of dollars.The Aster decentralized crypto exchange (DEX) and perpetual futures platform announced on Thursday that its...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Ether is testing holder conviction with its price dip, with data showing continued selling by smaller holders and steady accumulation by larger investors.Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), dropped to a year-to-date low of $1,927 on Thursday, and i...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Polymarket will migrate from bridged USDC on Polygon to Circle-issued native USDC, reducing reliance on cross-chain bridges as prediction markets expand.Circle Internet Group has partnered with Polymarket to transition the prediction market’s settlem...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bitcoin risks a deeper slide as miners and US spot ETFs cut BTC exposure, adding supply pressure during a fragile downtrend.Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped by more than 22.5% in the past week to $69,000 on Thursday, wiping out 15 months of gains entirely...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
The metal in a US 5-cent coin is worth 43% more than the coin’s value. So if you sell your BTC for nickels, can you make infinite money?
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
The new facility allows institutions to redeem tokenized real-world assets into stablecoins instantly, addressing a key liquidity bottleneck in onchain markets.Multiliquid and Metalayer Ventures have launched an institutional liquidity facility to pr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
A $1 million Lightning transfer between SDM and Kraken was used to test whether Bitcoin’s main scaling layer could handle seven‑figure, institutional‑grade payments.Institutional trading and lending desk Secure Digital Markets (SDM) said it sent a $1...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Recent volatility reviews, new surveillance systems and a landmark court ruling show how South Korea is enforcing stricter oversight of crypto markets.South Korean regulators are stepping up oversight of the domestic cryptocurrency market, signaling...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Vitalik Buterin sold almost 3,000 ETH worth $6.6 million through a series of swaps days after saying withdrawals from his holdings were coming.Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold about 2,961 Ether worth $6.6 million over a three-day period, afte...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bitcoin ETFs saw $545 million in daily outflows as BTC neared $70,000, though analysts said most investors were holding positions despite market weakness.Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) extended losses on Wednesday amid BTC price approaching the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
A Nevada judge declined to grant regulators’ bid to halt Coinbase’s event contract markets, as the exchange presses a CFTC preemption argument in federal court.A Nevada state court denied regulators’ request for an emergency temporary restraining ord...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
USDt added $12.4 billion in Q4 to reach a $187.3 billion market cap, increasing users and onchain activity even as rival stablecoins declined after October’s liquidation event.Tether’s dollar-pegged stablecoin USDt expanded to a record $187.3 billion...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bitcoin selling pressure sparked a retreat below the 2021 bull market high, with lower BTC price targets still expected to be hit.Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $70,000 on Thursday as suspicions over coordinated selling boiled over.Key points:Bitcoin tumbl...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bitcoin ETFs may be sitting on their “biggest losses” since launching in January 2024, but there is a silver lining, according to an ETF analyst.US-based spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) holders are showing relatively firm conviction despite a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bitcoin’s Coinbase Premium Gap has fallen to a yearly low, a move analysts say may reflect weaker relative demand on Coinbase-linked venues tied to institutional trading.The Coinbase Premium Gap, which tracks the price difference between Bitcoin on C...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
The dark web drug market used crypto for payments, but blockchain transaction tracing helped the FBI identify its creator, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison.The creator of Incognito Market, the online black market that used cryptocurrency as it...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Some crypto companies have proposed giving community banks a bigger stablecoin role as Senate negotiations stall over the contentious market structure bill.Crypto companies are reportedly floating concessions relating to stablecoin yields in an attem...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bhutan has slipped to the seventh-largest nation-state Bitcoin holder, with its stash falling from 13,295 BTC in October 2024 to 5,700 BTC.Bhutan has offloaded over $22 million in Bitcoin mined through its state-owned mining venture as the cryptocurr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bhutan has slipped to the seventh-largest nation-state Bitcoin holder, with its stash falling from 13,295 BTC in October 2024 to 5,700 BTC.Bhutan has offloaded another $22 million in Bitcoin mined through its state-owned mining venture, with the sale...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Payy’s new privacy layer 2 makes every ERC-20 transfer private by default without the need for new wallets or tokens.Crypto project Payy, which operates a privacy-focused wallet alongside a crypto banking card, has just launched a privacy-enabled Eth...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Payy says its new layer-2 network routes ERC-20 transfers through privacy pools by default without requiring new wallets or tokens.Crypto project Payy, which operates a privacy-focused wallet alongside a crypto banking card, has launched an Ethereum...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Social media sentiment has turned “extremely bearish” toward Bitcoin and Ethereum this week, according to analytics platform Santiment.XRP sentiment on social media has remained relatively robust despite a crypto market slump that has seen Bitcoin fa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
CFTC Chair Mike Selig described the proposal as a “frolic into merit regulation” by the Biden administration.The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has withdrawn a Biden administration-era proposal that would have banned sports and political pre...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Strium will begin with synthetic US and Japanese stocks and commodities before expanding to real tokenized shares and asset-backed products with identity verification.Startale Group and Japan’s financial conglomerate SBI Holdings have launched Strium...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Solana became one of Samani’s favorite crypto projects at Multicoin in 2018 after he initially favored Ethereum but grew dissatisfied with how its developers addressed scaling.Multicoin Capital co-founder Kyle Samani said he is stepping down as manag...
