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Christopher Alexander Delgado, the former CEO of Goliath Ventures, pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering charges stemming from a crypto investment scheme prosecutors said stole at least $400 mi…
Robinhood (HOOD) officially launched the public mainnet for Robinhood Chain, marking the company's biggest step yet into onchain financial infrastructure as it looks to expand beyond brokerage service…
The European Union's crypto market entered a new era on Wednesday as its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation came into full effect, meaning crypto firms serving customers across the 27-nation b…
World, the mysterious Solana project that garnered millions of views on X with little more than a glowing globe, cryptic posts and the tagline “Trade Everything,” is now live as a fully onchain predic…
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The European Union's (EU) transitional grandfathering period under its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation ends on July 1, forcing crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) who have yet to attain …
Investment bank Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Morpho, calling the lending protocol a dual-play on decentralized finance (DeFi) that combines a lending market with infrastructure for onc…
Wall Street bank Cantor Fitzgerald said crypto markets are entering the final stage of the current bear cycle, with bitcoin's
Crédit Agricole (ACA), France's second-largest bank by assets, unveiled a euro-pegged stablecoin, a rival to offerings from smaller peer Société Générale (GLE) and Circle Internet (CRCL) in a market t…
The bank lowered its base-case forecast for bitcoin to $82,000 from $112,000 and cut its ether target to $2,240 from $3,175. It now assumes no net ETF inflows over the next year, abandoning an earlier…
The first half of the year was defined by the AI trade. The second half may be defined by a tougher question: Which companies and assets actually stand to benefit from it?
A new independent non-profit, Ethereum Institutional, has launched with the goal of accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum, its layer-2 networks and the broader ecosystem.
Aave, one of the largest decentralized lending protocols by locked value, recorded its strongest day of new-wallet creation in almost five years on June 30, a sign of fresh interest in the AAVE token …
The largest cryptocurrency fell 22.2% in the first quarter and another 14.09% in the second, according to Coinglass data, and was trading just above $59,000 on Wednesday as the third quarter began.
With the end of MiCA’s transitional period fast approaching, the European Union is finally cracking down on unlicensed crypto exchanges in an effort to purge the continent’s spot markets of rogue oper…
Tokenized equities trading platform Edel Finance paused its lending protocol on Tuesday after an attacker exploited how it priced a tokenized stock, borrowing against collateral inflated to roughly 78…
Ether (ETH) is at $1,580, having also experienced a slight relief bounce since 01:00 UTC.
Ark Invest has a tendency to load up on shares in cryptocurrency companies when their prices are depressed, and June was no exception.
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Polish crypto firms are being forced to seek licenses abroad or risk shutting down after President Karol Nawrocki refused to sign legislation giving the country’s financial regulator authority to issu…
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $4.5 billion in net outflows in June, their worst month since launching in January 2024, per SoSoValue data.
Anthropic is restoring access to its two most advanced AI models after the U.S. government lifted the export controls that forced it to pull them last month.
XRP is still pinned near $1, but the selling pressure is no longer coming from the same crowded leverage that drove the earlier decline. The token slipped 1% over the session, then bounced from suppor…
The June candlestick, a charting tool summarizing entire month's price action into a single visual, looks like a solid red brick with virtually no wicks, a clear sign of complete and "uninterrupted" b…