Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 hours ago
Strategy acquired 1,587 Bitcoin for $100 million last week, lifting holdings to 846,842 BTC after raising $209 million through MSTR stock sales.Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public Bitcoin holder, added to its cryptocurrency reserves...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 hours ago
Standard Chartered forecasts assets locked in decentralized finance will reach $2.7 trillion by 2030, driven by tokenization and crypto-native growth.Standard Chartered expects assets locked in decentralized finance (DeFi) to grow 37-fold to $2.7 tri...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 6 hours ago
Bitcoin gained bullish short-term BTC price targets with $69,000 on the radar thanks to the US-Iran peace deal, due to be signed in the coming days.Bitcoin (BTC) starts the third week of June with a spring in its step as the US-Iran peace deal sends...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 6 hours ago
Japanese crypto exchange Bitbank warns users of possible account suspensions for Polymarket-linked transactions, citing Japan’s gambling laws.Bitbank, one of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, warned users that transactions linked to predictio...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 10 hours ago
US President Donald Trump says the US and Iran have a deal for a “toll-free opening of the Strait of Hormuz,” sending Bitcoin to a two-week high.Bitcoin came just shy of $66,000 during Monday morning trading after US President Trump claimed that the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 10 hours ago
New Mexico is the eighth state sued by the CFTC over prediction markets, as Gary Gensler doubted the regulators' claim of authority over sports event contracts.New Mexico is the latest US state to be pulled into the Commodity Futures Trading Commissi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 11 hours ago
The Aztec Connect platform was deprecated in March 2023, but the immutable smart contract still held over $2 million in crypto assets.Aztec Connect, a deprecated decentralized finance platform, was drained of around $2.1 million in crypto on Sunday a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 12 hours ago
Bitcoin mining difficulty has undergone its second-largest downward difficulty adjustment this year, following February’s 11% shift.Bitcoin mining difficulty dropped by 10.09% on Sunday, marking the blockchain’s 11th-largest downward adjustment and e...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 21 hours ago
Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick tells clients “winter is over” as the analyst said crypto prices have likely seen the low for the cycle, ahead of Strategy’s Bitcoin purchase update.
Standard Chartered analyst Geoff Kendrick on Friday told clients...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
The SPHINCS- proposal aims to reduce the cost of post-quantum signature verification on Ethereum while the network works toward a longer-term solution.Ethereum could begin adding post-quantum protections to accounts for as little as $0.07, without wa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
A fake Bithumb email used in the $36 million Humanity Protocol hack points to the involvement of North Korean threat actors, according to Quantstamp.A malicious attachment delivered through a phishing email points to the involvement of North Korea-li...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
A fake Bithumb email used in the $36 million Humanity Protocol hack points to the involvement of North Korean threat actors, according to Quantstamp.A malicious attachment delivered through a phishing email points to the involvement of North Korea-li...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
Bitcoin stayed near local highs on a new US-Iran peace deal pledge as analysis saw conditions favoring a sustained BTC price rebound.Bitcoin (BTC) circled $64,000 into Sunday’s weekly close as a US-Iran peace deal appeared imminent.Key points:Read mo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
Crypto analyst Michaël van de Poppe said a peace deal, which would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, would likely send liquidity back to risk-on assets such as cryptocurrencies.US President Donald Trump said a deal to end the fighting between the US and I...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
Calls from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and other tech firms prompted the Trump administration to suspend foreign access to Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on Friday.The decision by the administration of US President Donald Trump to cut foreign a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 days ago
Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said Anthropic's Mythos AI model found no further “serious bugs” in the privacy protocol following the patching of a previously discovered forgery bug.Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said a security audit by Anthropic's Claude M...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 days ago
Strategy's recent Bitcoin sale appeared to clash with Saylor's “never sell” mantra, but he says the move reflects how the company's digital credit business works.Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, defended the company's recent Bitcoin sa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 days ago
Morpho’s recent $175 million raise reflects growing investor bets on onchain credit infrastructure as stablecoin adoption expands.Investors are increasingly backing stablecoin and credit infrastructure rather than decentralized finance (DeFi) lending...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 days ago
Demand for ETH leverage remains low, but corporate accumulation and stakers’ dedication may prevent an Ether price crash to $1,500. Key takeaways:Ether (ETH) price failed to reclaim the $1,700 level over the past week, tracking a broader weakness acr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 days ago
Anthropic has abruptly disabled its flagship AI models after a US government directive citing national security concerns.Anthropic said it suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after receiving a US government export control directive...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 days ago
Elon Musk’s SpaceX completed its landmark IPO on the Nasdaq on Friday, but crypto users seeking tokenized exposure to the IPO were left empty-handed after allocations fell through.Crypto trading platforms Bybit, Binance, Bitget Wallet and MEXC cancel...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 days ago
New data from Galaxy Research suggests that Bitcoin's floor price may not drop as low as previous bear markets, but the bottom-finding process is still playing out.New research from Galaxy Digital suggests that Bitcoin's cycle low could form at highe...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 days ago
A positive bid-ask readings and a bullish RSI divergence support Bitcoin's recovery, with $70,000 emerging as a key target.Bitcoin (BTC) is gaining buyers’ interest after setting a new yearly low at $59,000 last week. Order book data and liquidity su...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 days ago
A federal appeals court upheld the former FTX chief’s conviction, while his bid for clemency from President Donald Trump appears to face steep political odds.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried failed to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 days ago
Bitcoin hit $64,000 as SpaceX launched a record-breaking IPO and US-Iran peace deal hopes continued to grow, but doubts over BTC price support remained.Bitcoin (BTC) hit $64,000 after Friday’s Wall Street open while analysis warned of “unreliable” BT...