Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Jeff Walton thinks the idea is almost too simple. The chief risk officer at Strive Asset Management said this week that Bitcoin-backed securities could reshape how people think about money and credit — and that skepticism around the sector partly ste...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
A Google information security engineer has been arrested and charged with commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering after allegedly using confidential internal company data to place a series of bets on Polymarket — the crypto-based predicti...
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Galaxy Research is trying to explain one of the stranger Bitcoin transactions of the year after five addresses sent roughly 107 BTC, worth about $8.3 million, to an old burn address, making the coins provably unspendable. The move, flagged by Galaxy...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Attackers drained an estimated $200,000 from DeFi liquidity pools on Ethereum — specifically Uniswap V3 — after exploiting weaknesses in the WUSD.fi and GLOVE incentive system, according to security researchers at ExVul. The attackers cycled funds th...
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Data shows the Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index has slipped back into the extreme fear territory following the latest retrace in the asset’s price. Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index Is Signaling Extreme Fear Again The “Fear & Greed Index&#...
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies has staked roughly $4.7 million worth of Ether from its holdings, with the company projecting annualized staking revenues of $276 million — a yield strategy that sets it apart from firms that simply hold crypto on their...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
The altcoin market is showing signs of activity after months of selling pressure and uncertainty that have left most participants either exhausted or disengaged. The broader environment remains difficult — but CryptoQuant data has identified a behavi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Only $1.1 million in transaction volume has passed through Coinbase’s x402 payment protocol in the past 30 days. That number tells a lot about where AI-driven crypto payments actually stand right now. A New Layer For Crypto Transactions Base,...
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Chainlink is trading below $10 as the market faces a critical test around support levels that have held through weeks of sideways price action without delivering the breakout bulls have been waiting for. The price is under pressure — but top analyst...
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President Donald Trump is doubling down on his goal of making the United States the “crypto capital of the world,” while also weighing in on a growing national fight over who should regulate prediction markets. Trump Says CFTC Rules Will Help Crypto...
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The broader cryptocurrency market is experiencing heightened volatility, causing XRP’s price to retest support levels such as $1.33. With the altcoin experiencing steady downside movement, this move has introduced serious pressure on investors and tr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
On Wednesday evening, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced it had joined Gemini (GEMI) in requesting that the court grant relief from the judgment in the regulator’s case against the exchange, filed back in 2022. The CF...
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A market analyst has issued a fresh warning on Bitcoin (BTC), pointing to a shift in the cryptocurrency’s risk index as it moves back into a high-risk zone. The update comes as key price levels are broken and signs of weakness begin to emerge, raisin...
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Forward Industries, the largest treasury holder of Solana (SOL), has announced that it’s set to join the Russell 2000 and 3000 indexes. Forward Industries To Be Included In Russell 2000 From June 29th According to a press release, Forward Indus...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Senator Cynthia Lummis issued a fresh warning on Wednesday about the timing and urgency of the long-awaited CLARITY Act, a bill intended to lay out a clearer regulatory framework for the crypto industry. In her comments, the pro-crypto lawmaker focu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
Bitcoin and XRP are often compared from a price perspective, but this is not the only lens through which they can be looked at. Both cryptocurrencies are native to first-mover blockchain networks, which have survived for more than a decade, have proc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
Ripple has submitted a follow-up response to the SEC Crypto Task Force seeking clearer treatment for payment stablecoins, crypto asset non-securities and tokenized securities under broker-dealer rules. The letter, dated May 22, 2026 and shared by Ban...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
XRP’s trading conditions on Binance have deteriorated sharply, according to a new analysis by market expert Sam Daodu. Daodu points to a 30-day liquidity index that has fallen to roughly 0.043, the lowest level since January 2020. For context, betwe...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
The biggest names in Bitcoin ownership quietly moved billions of dollars worth of the asset in the most recent week. Bitcoin held its ground above $74,000 when BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) shed over a billion dollars in BTC through...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
Payments giant Mastercard has secured New York’s BitLicense, one of the toughest regulatory approvals, to advance its digital assets strategy and expand its stablecoin and tokenized deposits infrastructure. Mastercard Wins Major Regulatory Approval...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
Crypto analyst Chain Mind has drawn a correlation between Bitcoin and the S&P 500, noting how the latter could determine the BTC bottom. Based on analysis, the leading crypto has yet to find a bottom, with the stock market still making new highs....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
Spot HYPE ETFs have absorbed a larger share of Hyperliquid’s market capitalization in their first 10 trading days than comparable spot crypto ETF launches for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, according to Kairos Research. The firm said the products’ ear...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
A new amendment proposal submitted to the XRP Ledger Foundation’s repository on May 26 would fundamentally redesign how liquidity pools function on the XRP Ledger — introducing multiple curve types, concentrated liquidity, and a future fully pr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
A large, unidentified holder sold roughly $1.3 billion worth of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, through a dark pool on Tuesday morning, in what ETF analysts described as an unusually large block trade. The sale stood out not only because of its s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
UK authorities are ramping up their pressure on Russia with a fresh sanctions package targeting over a dozen individuals, crypto networks, and firms used to bypass the country’s sanctions. Russia-Linked Crypto Firms Hit With New Sanctions On Tuesday...
