Opinion by: James Toledano, chief operating officer of Unity Wallet2024 is the year crypto grew up. Throughout the industry’s short but turbulent history, this year marked a turning point for the legitimacy, integration and growing global acceptance
Bitcoin shed 4% on Jan. 7 as “predictable” BTC price action put whales in the spotlight.Bitcoin “spoofing” sees price support disintegrateData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed as it dipped below $98,000.The move came amid mac
Layer-1 blockchain network Hyperliquid needs to bootstrap a robust developer community to sustain its native token’s roughly $25 billion market capitalization, asset manager VanEck said in a Jan. 6 research note. Hyperliquid has become one of the mos
Today in crypto, the governor of the Czech National Bank said he would consider Bitcoin as part of the bank’s diversification strategy in the future, the United States Federal Reserve’s Michael Barr has announced plans to resign as vice chair for sup
Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinSwitch seeks to acquire customers from the hacked competitor exchange WazirX by offering a recovery fund to WazirX hack victims.CoinSwitch took to X on Jan. 7 to officially announce the launch of a WazirX hack recov
Cardano (ADA) has steadily recovered, rising 36% since dropping to $0.83 on Dec. 30, 2024. The swift rebound has led to a bullish position above its 50-day simple moving average, possibly triggering its next leg higher.At the time of writing, ADA's p
XRP has kickstarted 2025 in positive territory, rising over 5% year-to-date to reach $2.46 on Jan. 7. The cryptocurrency could keep climbing further, with technical outlooks suggesting the same. Bull flag setup could result in XRP price rising 70%XR
Japanese automotive giant Toyota plans to open the doors of Woven City this year, a futuristic settlement and living laboratory at the base of the country’s iconic Mount Fuji. Toyota plans to move the first 100 residents, primarily employees and thei
HashKey Europe, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange HashKey, has received approval for a virtual asset service provider (VASP) license from the Central Bank of Ireland.On Jan. 7, the HashKey Group announced its market expansion th
Backpack, a centralized cryptocurrency exchange (CEX) founded by former Alameda Research and FTX employees, has acquired FTX EU, the former European arm of the defunct FTX exchange.The acquisition was approved by the FTX bankruptcy court and the Cypr
Bitcoin price is up 2.3% on Jan. 8, establishing a new three-week high of around $102,760.Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and Coinbase shows that the BTC price rose from a low of $91,315 on Dec. 30, rising as much as 11.8% to trade at $101,942 a
The United States Federal Reserve’s Michael Barr is set to resign as vice chair for supervision — marking the latest exit by a US official apparently linked to “Operation Chokepoint 2.0” — a purportedly concerted federal effort to debank crypto compa
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he will step back as his political party’s leader and resign as prime minister once officials choose a successor. In a Jan. 6 press conference, Trudeau said Canada’s Liberal Party would select the
Brendan Greene, the creator of the online battle royale shooter PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) — who left the game’s development team in 2019 — has unveiled his plans to create a new generation of a gameplay-focused metaverse called “Artemis” —
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says a temporary “pause” to worldwide available compute could be a way to “buy more time for humanity” in case of a possibly harmful form of AI superintelligence.In a Jan. 5 blog post following up his November 2023
Pudgy Penguins’ native token, PENGU, climbed 13% on Jan. 5, emerging as one of the top performers in the crypto market.At the time of publication, PENGU was trading at $0.040, marking a 250% surge since its launch on Dec. 17. Initially debuting with
Update (Jan 3, 2:20 am UTC): This article has been updated to reflect that Stuart Hoegner’s retirement is a separate event from the implementation of MiCA. Stuart Hoegner, General Counsel of Tether and Bitfinex, has retired from his role as the legal
Less than a month before a new United States presidential administration and Congress are set to be sworn into office, many figures in the digital asset industry are speculating the change in leadership could lead to more favorable regulations and la
Today, in crypto, the community behind the memecoin Floki has allocated a portion of its funds to provide liquidity for its upcoming Exchange-Traded Product (ETP). Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, illegal cryptocurrency advertisements continue to th
Bitcoin has struggled to maintain prices above $95,000 since Dec. 28, but demand for leveraged positions has been on the decline. During this period, bulls faced $470 million in liquidations, while bears showed reduced appetite, especially as Bitcoi