Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
Bitcoin attempted to recover the $75,000 level as US stocks chase after a second day of fresh all-time highs. Is the bull market back on?Bitcoin (BTC) treaded water at Thursday’s Wall Street open as the S&P 500 reached new all-time highs.Key poin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
The CEO of the troubled Zonda exchange has disclosed a Bitcoin wallet holding around 4,500 BTC, but said the private keys were never transferred during a company handover.Crypto exchange Zonda said a cold wallet holding around 4,500 Bitcoin is curren...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
The Drift Protocol will use the $150 million to relaunch and restore user funds following a $280 million exploit earlier in April.Stablecoin issuer Tether, the company behind USDt (USDT), said Thursday it will back a $150 million recovery program for...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
UAE investors are buying the AI and tech dip, keeping exposure to software, chips and crypto as the Iran conflict stress-tests the Gulf’s bid to be a global tech hub.United Arab Emirates investors are leaning into the artificial intelligence sell-off...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
Investors in the cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme OneCoin may finally get some relief through a Department of Justice program, some 12 years after the project launched.In the United States, victims of the $4 billion crypto Ponzi scam OneCoin are finally r...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
Australia’s A$24B digital asset opportunity hinges on regulation. Clear rules could drive tokenized markets, faster payments and institutional investment.Australia could generate A$24 billion, or about $17 billion, annually from digital assets and to...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
The corrected filing details timeline, caveats and conditions tied to a potential Naver Financial IPO after the Dunamu share swap deal.South Korean tech company Naver and Upbit operator Dunamu said in a corrected filing that their planned share swap...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
DeFi fared pretty well under the House’s version of the CLARITY Act — but the Senate’s revised draft could throw a spanner in the works.
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
DeFi fared pretty well under the House’s version of the CLARITY Act — but the Senate’s revised draft could throw a spanner in the works.
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
Ukrainian authorities detained a suspect linked to a $100 million cybercrime network targeting the US and Europe, seizing $11 million in assets, of which $3 million was in cryptocurrency.Ukrainian authorities have arrested a member of an internationa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
AllUnity says it is expanding EURAU stablecoin liquidity pools across major DEXs such as Uniswap and Raydium, with trading pairs against USDT and USDT0.AllUnity, a regulated European stablecoin issuer, is expanding its euro-pegged stablecoin, EURAU,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
Back said at Paris Blockchain Week that Bitcoin’s post-quantum shift may reveal the true size of the stash held by Satoshi Nakamoto, estimated at between 500,000 and 1 million BTC.Blockstream CEO Adam Back said Thursday that a future post-quantum mig...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
Executives at Paris Blockchain Week said European firms interested in Bitcoin treasury strategies are working around shallower capital markets and tighter constraints than in the US.European companies exploring Bitcoin treasury strategies are unlikel...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
Circle’s Jeremy Allaire sees “tremendous” room for a yuan stablecoin, despite China banning most private yuan tokens and pushing its CBDC to challenge US dollar stablecoins.Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire says there is “tremendous opportunity” for a yuan-b...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
Jean-Didier Berger said at Paris Blockchain Week that France is preparing new steps to protect crypto holders as wrench attacks and kidnappings keep mounting.Jean-Didier Berger, minister delegate to the interior minister of France, said authorities a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
A review of over 150 crypto protocols finds fewer than 1% disclose market-making arrangements, revealing a major transparency gap in token trading structures.A review of more than 150 major crypto protocols shows that disclosure of market-making arra...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
The sandbox will test preset spending limits, timing controls and category restrictions for public sector expense payments.South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MOEF) is preparing to test blockchain-based payments for certain government expe...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
Crypto users in the US are required to pay capital gains taxes on cryptocurrencies, stifling their usefulness as a currency, argued a Washington DC-based think tank.Cato Institute, a US-based think tank, argued that the government should remove capit...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
Major World Liberty Financial investor Justin Sun called a plan to lock tokens for up to four years “the most absurd governance scams I have ever seen.”The Trump family’s crypto platform, World Liberty Financial, is facing backlash over a new proposa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust is also within striking distance of overtaking three other US spot Bitcoin ETFs that launched in January 2024.Morgan Stanley’s new spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund has just surpassed the WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund (WBTC...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
The amount of capacity and the type of compute it was trained on is “abundantly available in China,” said the Nvidia CEO.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned that China already has the computing power and data center capacity necessary to train an AI model...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
Tech stocks helped drive the Nasdaq to 24,016 and the S&P 500 to 7,022 as Bitcoin climbed nearly 10% over the past two weeks. US equities and tech stocks gained on Wednesday as investors looked optimistically to a de-escalation of the US-Iran war...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
The CFTC is investigating trades that took place before the US delayed strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure on March 23 and agreed to a ceasefire with Iran on April 7.The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reportedly investigating suspici...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
It may be appropriate to attempt to mitigate the extent of the freeze as much as possible, even at the cost of greater complexity, said BitMEX.BitMEX Research has proposed an alternative to freezing quantum-vulnerable dormant Bitcoins, advocating a w...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 weeks ago
CryptoQuant says Bitcoin could be reaching a temporary ceiling after hitting a multi-month top of $76,000 on Wednesday, with investors moving Bitcoin in bulk to exchanges.Bitcoin deposits to crypto exchanges surged on Tuesday as it rallied above $76,...