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
Consensys, the Ethereum software developer best known for its MetaMask wallet, has twice been hit by U.S. authorities' attempts to exclude it from the financial system, despite the best efforts of its bank the second time around, founder and CEO Joe
One bitcoin holder metric is pointing to price growth in the months ahead even as activity on the blockchain falls to its lowest in a year, a CryptoQuant analysis noted this week.The firm’s Bitcoin Network Activity Index has been down 15% since Nove
Layer 1 Berachain will airdrop just under 80 million of its BERA tokens to ecosystem and exchange users as the decentralized finance (DeFi)- focussed network goes live later on Thursday, per a release.The total initial supply of BERA is 500 million t
Bitcoin rose above $98,000 during Thursday's Asian trading hours after Eric Trump, son of U.S. President Donald Trump, encouraged BTC investment on X. "[It] feels like a great time to enter BTC," Eric Trump posted on X at 1:41 UTC, following which,
Coinbase users lost over $65 million to social engineering attacks in the past two months with an estimated $300 million lost to such attacks annually, crypto sleuth ZachXBT said in an X post Monday.The actual figure lost might be higher, because th
Cryptocurrencies in the real-world asset (RWA) sector led the recovery of the broader digital asset market from the overnight bloodbath, underscoring the strength of the tokenization investment narrative.Decentralized finance (DeFi) tokenized asset p
U.S. financial markets have long been burdened with a patchwork of outdated, overly complex, paternalistic rules. Meanwhile, the government’s failure to establish a regulatory regime for digital assets, coupled with its aggressive persecution of the
Bitcoin , the leading cryptocurrency by market value and the only macro asset open for trading over the weekend, held below $100,000, trading weak for the third straight day, as Canada joined Mexico in announcing retaliatory import tariffs against th
The digital asset industry stands at a critical, hopeful juncture.After years of fragmented approaches to regulation and legislation, we've reached a moment where clarity is both urgent and achievable. Blockchain Association's consensus-driven market
It's deja vu all over again in crypto after a hopeful report on a tariff delay was refuted by the White House.To review, President Trump on Thursday promised to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada beginning Saturday Feb. 1. Having rallied over $1
Tether, the crypto company behind the largest stablecoin USDT, said on Friday it generated $13 billion group-wide net profits last year in a record-breaking year.Some $7 billion of the profits derived from the firm's vast U.S. Treasuries and repo hol
Cardano, the layer-1 blockchain launched in 2017 by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson, activated its highly anticipated “Plomin” upgrade on Wednesday, ushering in the ecosystem's long-awaited move towards a decentralized governance system.With th
Are we witnessing the dawn of PolicyFi?In an earlier article on why memecoins matter, I argued that memecoins are ushering in a new era of civic engagement by forming speculative markets in which citizens are able to trade coins tied to government po