The cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Blockchain.com has taken new steps toward a potential initial public offering (IPO) by appointing two seasoned executives with financial and operational expertise.Blockchain.com hired Justin Evans, who
Argentina's president Javier Milei has backtracked on a tweet promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4 billion market cap before plunging by more than 95%.In a now-deleted tweet, Milei initially wrote: "This is a private project dedica
Attorneys for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission hinted at a potential settlement with Coinbase in a late Friday court filing, citing the regulator's new crypto task force.The SEC asked a federal appeals court to extend its deadline to respo
Crypto exchange Bybit is no longer illegally operating in France in the eyes of the country's financial regulator, its CEO said Friday.The exchange was on France's regulatory blacklist for more than two years, Ben Zhou, the CEO of Bybit, said in an X
Bitcoin managed to put in a modest rally early in the U.S. trading session on Friday, but the move was quickly snuffed out. Are bulls lightening up positions ahead of the weekend?They could be forgiven for doing so.In his Friday note, Standard Chart
Historical trends tied to a key indicator suggest that bitcoin has plenty of upside left as renewed inflation in the U.S. threatens to challenge the current uptrend.The 200-week simple moving average (SMA) of bitcoin's price, which smooths out short
Nasdaq-listed Zoom Communications (ZM), a stock market high-flyer during the pandemic boom that's faced tougher times since, should embrace a bitcoin strategy to shake up sluggish stock performace and provide value to shareholders, said Eric Semler,
MetaDAO's push to revolutionize governance via markets-based decision-making is getting a boost from the creator of its creed: Robin Hanson.The crypto group on Thursday hired Hanson – a George Mason University economics professor who created the noti
Last November, the American people clearly spoke. They support President Trump and the agenda he campaigned on: A “Golden Age” in America. A key component of President Trump’s agenda is leveraging the U.S.’s leadership in advanced technology and econ
The co-founders of Hashflare, a crypto mining ponzi scheme that stole $577 million from hundreds of thousands of investors around the world, both pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, both 4
South Korea's Financial Services Commission (SFC) plans on lifting a ban that prevented institutions trading crypto in response to the upsurge in global participation in the market, it said on Thursday. Non-profit organizations like charities, univer
Crypto exchange Coinbase is holding talks with Indian authorities in an effort to secure approval to return to the country it quit in 2023, Tech Crunch reported on Wednesday.The exchange is in talks with regulators including the Financial Intelligen
The X account of Semler Scientific chairman Eric Semler has seemingly been compromised, with various posts from it pointing to the supposed creation of a Solana-based token under the same trading symbol that the firm trades under at Nasdaq.The accoun
Loans from Galaxy and Ripple played a pivotal role in helping crypto exchange MoonPay handle the demand stemming from the launch of Donald Trump’s official memecoin after its Jan.18 issuance, a new podcast reveals.TRUMP launched days before the Presi
Bitcoin's Coinbase premium indicator, which measures the spread between BTC's dollar-denominated price on the Coinbase exchange and tether-denominated price on Binance, has flipped negative for the first time since the Feb. 3 crash, according to dat
More than $500 million was lost to memecoin rug pulls and scams in 2024, according to a report by crypto intelligence platform Merkle Science.The most prolific scams involved social engineering, which is a technique that relies on impersonation and m
What if I told you that the experts are wrong? Over the years several prestigious consulting firms and financial institutions have put out forecasts about the growth of tokenization by the end of the decade. It’s interesting how between all that “exp
We are entering a new epoch where the ability to use and to work with artificial and synthetic intelligence is a human right.Access to intelligence – the prerogative to innovate, work with, and benefit from higher levels of synthetic intelligence – b
Ether's price action is mirroring a pattern seen during the early August bottom, hinting at a renewed bull run ahead.Ether has faced a steep decline of 32%, dropping to $2,770 since mid-December and has lagged significantly behind its larger rival,
Ether has underperformed other cryptocurrencies in recent months as the Ethereum blockchain has faced "intense" competition from other networks, Wall Street bank JPMorgan said in a research report on Wednesday.The token lacks a compelling narrative