Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Venus Protocol, a decentralized finance ( DeFi) lending platform on BNB Chain, is investigating unusual activity after an address allegedly used the illiquid $THE token as collateral to extract roughly $3.7 million in digital assets before large-scal...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Expectations for another major bitcoin purchase from Strategy are building after Michael Saylor highlighted the firm’s growing treasury, reinforcing investor speculation that the company’s aggressive accumulation campaign is far from finished. Bitcoi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
At 8:30 a.m. EST on Sunday, bitcoin traded near $71,754 on March 15, 2026, consolidating within a narrow $70,540 to $71,893 intraday range while the broader technical picture leaned mildly constructive. With a market cap of $1.44 trillion and 24-hour...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Ark Labs secured $5.2 million in seed funding led by Tether to scale its Arkade infrastructure for programmable bitcoin transactions. Ark Labs announced on March 12, 2026, the closure of a $5.2 million seed round in Lugano, Switzerland, to expand its...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Kalshi and Polymarket anticipate that the Democratic Party will sweep both the House and the Senate in the midterm elections slated for November. There is a close to 50% chance of this outcome, while the second option, where Democrats win the House b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Metaplanet Inc. executes a Letter of Intent to invest up to $2.5 million (JPY 400 million) in JPYC Inc. to bolster Japan’s digital settlement infrastructure. Metaplanet Inc. announces on March 12, 2026, that it has executed a Letter of Intent to inve...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Pharos Network’s RealFi Alliance expands with the intelligence partners cohort, introducing Dune, Alchemy and Anchorage Digital to provide the transparency and data-backed research required for institutional real-world assets ( RWA) adoption. Solving...
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Former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan calls for the development of robust cryptocurrency infrastructure to serve refugees and stateless individuals. Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State and former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Coinbase,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer the shiny toy of Silicon Valley demos—it’s becoming a global industrial project worth trillions, and analysts say the next phase of AI may transform everything from corporate profits to how work actually gets...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Founders, lawyers and investors are still trying to make sense of MiCA. With our guest experts demystifying MiCA for you, get the upper hand and understand what the regulation is really about. MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.co...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
A new research report suggests quantum computing poses a long-term risk to bitcoin but is unlikely to threaten the network anytime soon. Experts say advances will occur gradually, giving developers and investors time to implement post-quantum securit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
TOKEN2049 Dubai, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency conferences, has been postponed from its original April 29–30, 2026 dates to April 21–22, 2027, due to ongoing geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East. Organizers made the announcement on...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
U.S. regulators move to rein in fast-growing prediction markets as event-based derivatives gain traction, with the CFTC warning exchanges to strengthen surveillance, prevent manipulation, and ensure new contracts tied to real-world outcomes meet fede...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin’s credibility came under fire after former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson labeled the cryptocurrency a Ponzi scheme, prompting Strategy’s Michael Saylor to fire back and defend bitcoin’s decentralized design. Michael Saylor Pushes Back as...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Corporate demand for bitcoin is accelerating as publicly traded companies tap stock and preferred-share financing to accumulate supply, a trend some industry leaders say could significantly increase corporate demand for newly mined coins and potentia...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin’s outperformance against U.S. equities is reviving bullish sentiment across crypto markets, with Coinbase Institutional signaling that the industry may be moving beyond what it described as peak pessimism as participation and macro conditions...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Two crypto courtroom sagas out of Manhattan delivered a pair of sharply different plot twists this week — one defendant walked away from the SEC’s fraud case for good, while another scheme’s legal fallout hit a wall when a federal judge tossed key ra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Authorities pulled the plug on the Socksescort proxy empire, freezing $3.5 million in crypto and exposing a global router botnet. U.S. and European authorities have dismantled Socksescort, a residential proxy network powered by AVRecon malware that q...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Bonk.fun, the Solana-based meme coin launchpad learned the hard way this week that even decentralized dreams still rely on very centralized web doors — and someone briefly kicked one open. As of this weekend, the domain still remains compromised. Sol...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
U.S. regulators are weighing how blockchain-based equities could reshape markets, as SEC leaders signal potential pilot programs and exemptions that may open the door to tokenized stock trading while regulators grapple with settlement rules and inves...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) extended their inflow streak to five consecutive days with $180 million in new capital. Ether and solana ETFs also posted gains, while XRP ETFs recorded no trading activity. Inflow Momentum Continues as Bitcoin, E...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States and allied nations are preparing to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz to keep the world’s most critical oil chokepoint open as the Iran conflict threatens roughly 20% of global petroleum...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Over the past seven days, the stablecoin economy padded its coffers with another $2.983 billion, gliding past the $315 billion threshold this week. Among the ten largest fiat-pegged tokens by market capitalization, Circle’s Treasury-fund stablecoin U...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Wall Street legend Stanley Druckenmiller just tossed a polite grenade into the global payments debate, predicting that within 10 to 15 years the machinery moving money around the planet won’t rely on SWIFT wires or card networks—but on blockchain-pow...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Over the past decade, bitcoin mining thrived on predicting price surges after halvings. However, a new report by Wintermute indicates this reliance has ended as bitcoin matures into an institutional asset, disrupting previous profitability cycles. Di...
