Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, has taken legal action against PowerTrade, a high-leverage derivatives platform based in the U.A.E., claiming the firm’s founders misappropriated $7.2 milli…
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Uniswap (UNI) and Spark are betting that as the number of stablecoins grow, the market will need the equivalent of a foreign-exchange network to move liquidity between issuers.
How does a high-profile crypto founder recover his reputation after serving prison time? Changpeng "CZ" Zhao's answer: He doesn't have to.
Japanese financial group SBI will acquire crypto exchange Bitbank for Â¥46.7 billion ($289 million). After the transaction closes, Bitbank will become an SBI subsidiary, and the combined group’s crypto assets under cust…
Boston-based stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Financial announced a partnership on Thursday with Japanese financial conglomerate Nomura Holdings to launch a digital asset settlement business. The firms plan to deploy a…
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Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs said CoinEx served as a gateway for the crypto sector in Iran, having traced more than $3.84 billion in flows between the exchange and sanctioned Iranian entities in the last seven …
The largest cryptocurrency remains at a critical level in terms of broader market structure. A potential break lower in price could trigger a slide to around $52,000. For now, it appears to have weathered the storm.
The largest cryptocurrency has tested the $60,000 level repeatedly since February, briefly falling below it several times. Four months ago, the supply in loss peaked at 9.8 million BTC. It climbed to 10.78 million in ea…
Computer memory chipmaker Micron Technology (MU) delivered blowout Q3 earnings on Wednesday, lifting the entire AI memory sector, AI-related stocks and even giving crypto a slight boost.
The max pain level for this expiry stands at $72,000, significantly above current spot prices of around $61,700. On Friday at 8:00 ET, options worth $10 billion will expire on Deribit, the world's largest crypto options…
Bitcoin dropped to $59,175 overnight, its lowest point since early June, before recovering to about $61,500 by Thursday morning, per CoinDesk data. Nearly $1 billion worth of futures positions were liquidated across cry…
Blockchain project MemeCore's M token collapsed about 74% over 24 hours, sliding from a high near $2.92 to as low as $0.51 before steadying around $0.74, with no exploit, hack or announcement to account for the drop.
Ripple's dollar-backed stablecoin RLUSD is now greenlit for usage in Japan after clearing the country's financial regulator, giving the token entry into one of Asia's most tightly regulated crypto markets.
That level is $59,000, which has emerged as strong support, capping downside moves in recent days.
XRP lost $1.0850 during Tuesday’s selloff, then failed to win it back. That leaves the token sitting near the lower end of its June range, with buyers still defending the $1.05-$1.07 area but no longer pushing price far…
Crypto sold off hard this week, with bitcoin breaking below $60,000 even as the technology stocks that had dragged it down came roaring back.
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Kalshi is seeking to raise fresh capital at a valuation of about $40 billion, nearly doubling the $22 billion valuation it targeted in its previous funding round, according to a Financial Times report citing people fami…
Binance has withdrawn its application for a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license in Greece and will seek authorization in another European Union country, the crypto exchange said Wednesday via several X posts.
Also continuing to lose ground on Wednesday were gold and oil, each falling below key levels — gold $4,000 per ounce and oil $70 per barrel.
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SecondFi, the Cardano wallet formerly known as Yoroi, says it has patched a major exploit that drained roughly 16 million ADA, worth approximately $2.4 million, from 374 user wallets across three separate attacks.