Dogecoin (DOGE) and ether (ETH) cratered 9% in the past 24 hours as bitcoin (BTC) stumbled 4.5%, dipping below $80,000 and leading a brutal sell-off that wiped out $700 million in long positions. Leveraged traders betting on a rally got torched with $420 million in BTC longs and $150 million in ETH longs being liquidated, … Read more
Coinbase (COIN) is one step closer to fully returning to India after securing registration with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), the crypto exchange said on Tuesday. The Nasdaq-listed company, which was active in the country several years ago, faced a number of issues due to regulatory pressure and eventually backed away from India. In 2022, … Read more
The consumer price index (CPI) report due Wednesday will be the first under President Donald Trump’s tenure, with signs of cooling likely to raise the chance of an interest-rate cut and lift the spirits of investors in risk assets, who have been hammered in recent weeks. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is forecast to say … Read more
Defiance’s leveraged Strategy (MSTR) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw a surge in activity on Monday as the bitcoin (BTC)-holding firm’s shares fell to their 200-day average. A record 24.33 million shares in the Defiance daily target 2x long MSTR ETF, trading under the ticker MSTX, changed hands as the ETF price slipped 32% to $17.90, the … Read more
It may be a coincidence, but the recent decline in the Nasdaq and bitcoin (BTC) coincides with a sharp rise in Japanese government bond yields and the strengthening of the safe-haven Japanese yen (JPY), reminiscent of the market dynamics seen in early August. There could be a causation here, as, for decades, the low-yielding yen … Read more
The latest draft of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, introduced before a hearing Tuesday, proposes a significant shift in the approach to stablecoin oversight. The draft want to split stablecoin regulation between state and federal authorities, while also introducing new enforcement and transparency requirements for issuers. The GENIUS Act … Read more
An ether (ETH) whale, who has held the token since its initial coin offering (ICO), made waves on Monday as it moved ETH worth millions to crypto exchange Kraken, according to blockchain sleuth Spot on Chain. The whale deposited 7,000 ETH, worth $13.8 million at press time, to Kraken as the token’s price plummeted along … Read more
There is more to SEC’s recent memecoin guidance than meets the eye. On Feb. 27, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporate Finance issued guidance explaining that memecoins — which the SEC described as digital assets “inspired by internet memes, characters, current events, or trends for which the promoter seeks to attract an enthusiastic … Read more
El Salvador has entered a regulatory agreement with Paraguay on the topic of cryptocurrencies. Paraguay’s Secretaría de Prevención de Lavado de Dinero o Bienes (SEPRELAD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with El Salvador’s Comisión Nacional de Activos Digitales (CNAD) last Friday. The document is supposed to facilitate cooperation between the two institutions for the … Read more
Ethereum’s ETH has been spiraling on Monday, jeopardizing a large decentralized finance (DeFi) loan on lending platform Sky (formerly Maker) of being liquidated. The borrower in danger took out a $74 million loan in DAI stablecoin by pledging 65,680 ETH as collateral, worth nearly $130 million earlier today, per a Sky vault data dashboard. On … Read more
