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1 month ago
South Korea plans to tax crypto gains over $1,740 as political battle moves to p...
The country plans on taxing cryptocurrency gains from Jan. 1, 2027, signaling that it does not intend to postpone the measure for a fourth t...
1 month ago
Crypto's resilience tested as oil rises after Iran strikes, Fed signals rates co...
Bitcoin held near $64,000 despite the Fed's hawkish split, Iranian ballistic missiles and an 8% surge in oil overnight that sent the Dow dow...
1 month ago
BitRiver founder charged in Russia with $12.5 million fraud
Igor Runets has been transferred to a pre-trial detention facility from house arrest as he faces accusations of failing to deliver on a cont...
1 month ago
Crypto exchange Luno cuts 20% of staff amid automation push and retail trading s...
The DCG-owned company previously cut 35% of staff in January 2023 citing tough market conditions.
1 month ago
Live updates: Bitcoin holds near $64,000 as Microsoft's AI payoff lifts stocks
S&P 500 futures gained 0.2% and Nasdaq 100 contracts rose 0.4% after the index had slipped into a correction, with Microsoft up 8% in premar...
1 month ago
Bitcoin and ether markets are ruled by perps. SpaceX showed how far their influe...
Perpetual futures drive much of the price discovery for bitcoin and ether. When traders pointed the same machinery at a private company, the...
1 month ago
Bitcoin, ether whipsaw wipes out $286 million in leveraged bets
Price volatility around the Federal Reserve's rate decision cleared positions for roughly 90,000 traders, with unusually equal losses for bu...
1 month ago
Bitcoin analysts agree the Fed's hold was hawkish. They don't agree on what happ...
Four analysts agree the Fed's hawkish hold changes the calculus for risk assets, but they split on whether bitcoin's real test is already he...
1 month ago
Ether, XRP flat as chip stocks steady on Samsung's 250-fold profit surge
Crypto's majors barely moved as Asia's semiconductor selloff eased. Most are still lower over the week, with HYPE down 8%.
1 month ago
Bitcoin's quantum plan assumes some algorithms break. AI just weakened one in 60...
The HAWK system isn't deployed anywhere, and Bitcoin doesn't use it. But is sitting in the same quantum race that Bitcoin developers are scr...
1 month ago
Senators said to hatch idea to toughen Trump's concession on Clarity Act's crypt...
Insiders say that the bipartisan Senate duo revamping the bill's Trump-approved ethics section have come up with something they hope wins su...
1 month ago
Robinhood slides 4% despite earnings beat as crypto revenue cools
The brokerage reported $100 million revenue from crypto trading, a 38% decline in a year, offset by stronger options, equities and predictio...
1 month ago
As crypto perpetual futures boom, Ethereum’s role is shifting
Rather than competing directly with faster chains, some builders argue Ethereum's strength lies in supporting the layer-2 networks where tra...
1 month ago
Fed holds rates steady, extending pause as markets await Kevin Warsh's policy ro...
For the first time in several years, markets were somewhat split on whether the U.S. central bank would hike rates.
1 month ago
The traditional 9-to-5 banking day is officially dying, says Morgan Stanley exec...
Tokenization and 24/7 markets are reshaping finance, making always-on banking a reality.
1 month ago
Stablecoin firm Brale says new protocol can remove a major hurdle to scaling cus...
Today's bridge model won't scale as hundreds of companies issue their own stablecoins, fragmenting liquidity, Brale CEO Ben Milne said in an...
1 month ago
Coinbase hit by spot trading slump: Wall Street trims expectations ahead of earn...
Wall Street expects a sluggish second quarter from Coinbase as crypto trading activity cools, putting all eyes on and pending U.S. crypto le...
1 month ago
Crypto Long & Short: What this year's $972 million crypto hacks actually tell us...
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Immunefi's Mitchell Amador writes that most of 2026's stolen crypto is leaving through keys, signers and...
1 month ago
Ethereum Foundation names pcaversaccio to board amid leadership changes
pcaversaccio (known as "pc"), is a prominent security researcher in the Ethereum ecosystem. His addition brings the foundation's board to fo...
1 month ago
The inside story of how a hike in Hong Kong changed crypto trading forever
"We were a scrappy startup," Delo said of BitMEX back in 2016, when it launched the first perpetual future. "We thought, ‘Just get it out th...
1 month ago
About $80 million ZEC crosses into Zcash's new Ironwood pool in the first day
Roughly 5% of the funds in the retired Orchard pool have gone through the turnstile. The rest sit in a pool that can no longer take deposits...