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
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
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
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
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
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
The bulls are back, and it’s not just for bitcoin BTC. Latest data reveals that at least six of the other top 10 tokens by market value, excluding stablecoins, are now trading above their 200-day simple moving averages (SMA). The 200-day SMA is widely seen by many, including Coinbase, as the barometer of long-term trends. … Read more
DeFi Development (DFDV), the Nasdaq-listed real estate tech firm formerly known as Janover, bought more of Solana’s SOL SOL, taking its total crypto holdings above $100 million, the company announced on Monday. The firm said it acquired 172,670 SOL at an average price of $136.81. The $23.6 million purchase is the largest since its crypto … Read more
Over the past two weeks, bitcoin (BTC) has significantly outperformed gold (XAU), and the bullish trend could intensify further. This outlook is supported by bullish developments in the bitcoin-to-gold ratio, which measures BTC’s USD price against gold’s USD price per ounce and easing U.S.-China trade tensions. Recently, the ratio broke out of an inverse head-and-shoulders … Read more
