European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde said bitcoin is not an option for the eurozone’s central bank reserves, citing concerns over liquidity, security and regulatory scrutiny.Speaking at the official press conference following the E

Business intelligence company MicroStrategy is the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, which has led to a 570% surge in MSTR's share price over the past year. Mizuho Securities believes the price of bitcoin has room to run another 30% in the next th

Czech National Bank Governor Aleš Michl is set to submit a plan to allocate as much as 5% of its €140 billion ($146 billion) of reserves to bitcoin, according to The Financial Times.Michl told the FT he will present the bitcoin investment plan to the

Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang announced that the crypto venture capital firm will donate $1.25 million to support Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm in his legal defense against U.S. prosecution.“The prosecution’s case threatens to hold software dev

Ai16z, an open-source platform for building and managing AI agents, has undergone a rebranding to ElizaOS.Shaw Walters, the project's founder, said on X that moving to ElizaOS would further enhance its collaboration with “established players.”The pro

Arizona's Senate Finance Committee greenlit the initial step towards the state being able to invest in crypto.The committee proposed a strategic bitcoin reserve bill that suggested the state's public funds invest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

Following recent discussions with a diversified range of investors across the United States, analysts at research and brokerage firm Bernstein said several groups recognized that “crypto is back” and saw a need to ramp up their market activity.Invest

OpenSea has rolled out its OpenSea 2.0 (OS2) platform, featuring a redesigned user interface and a new experience points (XP) system.This is a private beta release, with OpenSea granting free priority access to holders of its Gemesis NFTs. Other inte

The U.S. Senate has confirmed pro-crypto Scott Bessent as the new Treasury secretary, who will succeed Janet Yellen. The confirmation was made in a Senate vote on Monday, where 68 voted for Bessent against 29. Last November, Trump nominated the billi

Bitcoin miners and other cryptocurrency-related stocks are trading significantly lower in Monday's trading session. The sell-off was led by the Nasdaq, which was down more than 3.4% in midday trading after China-based DeepSeek released an artificial

Nasdaq, on behalf of BlackRock, is pursuing a potential change to the asset management firm's spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund to allow for in-kind redemptions instead of cash.Nasdaq filed an amended rule filing on Friday that would allow for redemp

Eurozone banks need a digital euro to counter United States President Donald Trump's efforts to promote worldwide U.S.-backed stablecoins, according to European Central Bank (ECB) board member Piero Cipollone. Speaking at a policy meeting in Frankfur

David Sacks, the first-ever AI and Crypto Czar for the White House, claimed that Trump's memecoin acts as a collectible, much like a baseball card or stamp. Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump launched memecoins respectively called TRUMP and ME

Markets are grappling with uncertainty in the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, but there’s an undeniable shift flying under the radar: crypto is no longer a dirty word.The transformation is striking. Just a year ago, figures like SEC Chair Gary G

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has revoked controversial crypto accounting guidance following upheaval from lawmakers and the crypto industry alike. The SEC's move on Thursday marks another shakeup in the agency following former SEC Chai

Litquity, the Ethereum-based lending and borrowing protocol, has launched the second version of its app, Litquity V2, marketing lead Samrat Lekhak told The Block in an interview. Unlike existing lending platforms, which typically set rates through pr

Bitcoin’s current price trajectory closely mirrors patterns from previous market cycles, particularly the 2015-2018 cycle, according to data from Glassnode. Glassnode’s analysis of historical bitcoin market data highlights significant growth during e

The Nasdaq’s official X account was compromised when hackers used it to promote a fraudulent memecoin.The hacker linked a fake X account as a Nasdaq affiliate and used the official Nasdaq account to retweet its post promoting a memecoin named STONKS

Corn, an Ethereum Layer 2 network aiming to utilize Bitcoin within the decentralized finance ecosystem, has raised $8.3 million in a community funding round.The round was raised through a compliant token sale platform called Legion and involved 675 i

Happy Tuesday! Well, President Trump didn't mention anything about crypto on his first day after all, dashing hopes for immediate news of a bitcoin strategic reserve or the freeing of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. But hey, there's still hope… righ