Several Solana-based exchanged-traded product filings were acknowledged Tuesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, signaling progress on new altcoin-based financial instruments coming to market. Cboe BZX Exchange filed proposed rule chan
Goldman Sachs loaded up on the two largest spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the final quarter of 2024, according to the investment banking giant’s latest 13F filed Tuesday. 13f filings are a way to get a glimpse into how the largest portfolios a
World Liberty Financial, which counts U.S. President Donald Trump as a major supporter, is forming a strategic token reserve meant to "to bolster leading projects like Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies that are at the forefront of reshapin
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger said that election event contracts on platforms such as Kalshi are "here to stay" in a Tuesday webinar for The Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization. "Congre
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.I hope you had a good weekend, folks. Memecoins are seemingly back on the menu, with Barstool's Dave Portnoy and even entire countries appa
Top Democrat of the House Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters released a discussion draft on Monday to regulate stablecoins, according to a copy obtained by Punchbowl News. The discussion draft includes language around federal regulators for s
Bitcoin miner CleanSpark reported revenues of $162.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2024, up 120% year-over-year, at a marginal cost to mine of approximately $34,000 per bitcoin.The company’s net income came in at $246.8 million in Q4, or $0.85 pe
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has started to solicit public comments on a proposal to list and trade the Grayscale Solana Trust, which would convert it into an exchange-traded product.On Thursday, the SEC issued a notice acknowledging a
Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky's lawyers asked for his sentencing to be pushed back after the former exec pleaded guilty to criminal charges.In a court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for Mashinsky asked for his sentencing to be pushed back a month f
President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel has signed the bill exempting bitcoin holdings of more than three years from capital gains tax — a largely symbolic act that officially makes the historic bill the law of the land, according to local news so
Sygnum’s Head of Investment Research, Katalin Tischhauser, has forecasted a potential price trajectory for bitcoin in a scenario in which each $1 billion of inflows from a potential U.S. strategic bitcoin reserve could spark a multiplier effect — sig
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Wednesday that it will hold a public roundtable to examine prediction markets, where its acting chair Caroline D. Pham expressed the need for more clarity in regulating such platforms.“Unfortunately,
The Berachain Foundation outlined Berachain’s tokenomics ahead of the much-anticipated Layer 1’s mainnet launch on Thursday, Feb. 6.According to tokenomics documents released on Wednesday, of the 500 million BERA tokens issued at Genesis, 48.9% are a
U.S. lawmakers hashed out different approaches to debanking, as the issue over whether the crypto industry has been shut out by banks heats up in Washington.Republicans have been leading the charge of concerns around crypto debanking, especially over
Ransomware payments dropped 35% to $813 million in 2024 — down 35% from the record-breaking $1.25 billion extorted by cybercriminals the year before, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.Per Chainalysis’ 2025 crypto crime report, the at
Tokenized real-world asset issuer Ondo Finance launched Ondo Global Markets, a new platform designed to open up onchain exposure to U.S. public securities such as stocks, bonds and exchange-traded funds.“What stablecoins did for dollars, Ondo Global
Bitcoin mining firm Bitdeer has completed a $21.7 million deal to acquire a 101-megawatt power project in Alberta, Canada, as the company continues to scale up its mining operations.The Nasdaq-listed firm announced on Tuesday that it acquired the sit
Ethereum’s token supply has climbed to its highest since January 2023, matching levels seen before The Merge update that took place on Sept. 15, 2022.According to data from ultrasound.money, ether supply currently stands at 120,521,523 ETH, which is
Uniswap Labs officially released version 4 of the Uniswap protocol, turning the protocol into a developer platform.Uniswap v4 is operational on multiple blockchain networks including Ethereum, Arbitrum, OP Mainnet and Base, according to a blog post.
Bitcoin and U.S. equities made moves upwards on Friday as the latest Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index showed inflation rising in line with expectations, reinforcing investor optimism about potential Federal Reserve rate cuts later in the