By Frances YueWelcome back to Distributed Ledger. This is Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch.Bitcoin's recent weakness may indicate that U.S. stock market's rally is more fragile than it seems, even as the S&P 500 SPX scored a fresh record c
Robinhood plans to launch cryptocurrency trading products in Singapore through its Bitstamp subsidiary, Bloomberg reported on Feb. 18. The online brokerage has not yet set a launch date but aims to start rolling out services by late 2025, according t
THE PROBLEM WITH DEREGULATION BY JOB CUTS With new headlines cropping up each day about massive cuts in U.S. government jobs, Jaret Seiberg, financial services policy analyst at TD Cowen, a division of TD Securities, examines the reason behind the
U.S. president Donald Trump shared an XRP-related article on social media platform Truth Social on Tuesday, stoking excitement and speculation among the XRP community.The article, published by CoinDesk in January, revealed how Ripple CEO Brad Garling
HONG KONG — World Liberty Financial, the Donald Trump-backed crypto project, owes much of its early success to Justin Sun, the Chinese-born crypto billionaire who became an official advisor to the project after purchasing $30 million worth of its tok
Donald Trump supporters are getting rewarded with a few dollars worth of his official TRUMP token if they had purchased any of the merchandise from websites associated with the U.S. president.Three TRUMP tokens, worth just over $50 at writing time, w
The Cardano price is currently eyeing an impulsive move to the upside following the invalidation of a bearish Relative Strength Index (RSI) divergence. In his analysis, crypto analyst Melika Trader revealed how high ADA could rally following this bul
Update Feb. 17, 11:09 a.m. UTC: This article has been updated to include quotes from Anndy Lian.Scammers impersonating Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman launched a fraudulent cryptocurrency, capitalizing on the retail frenzy around cele
The structure of the Ether options market suggests traders are anticipating medium-term growth, as February’s options expiry events could play a decisive role in the price trajectory of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency.More than 70% of the o
A sluggish Bitcoin price performance has not been the only disappointing theme for the largest crypto market so far in 2025. According to the latest on-chain data, the Bitcoin network fundamentals have been dwindling since the final quarter of last y
Top Stories of The WeekSEC Crypto Task Force met with firms to discuss staking, litigation reviewThe US Securities and Exchange Commissions Crypto Task Force met with several representatives from the cryptocurrency and traditional finance sectors to
The launch of Libra (LIBRA), a cryptocurrency endorsed by Argentine President Javier Milei, turned into a financial catastrophe after insiders cashed out over $107 million, wiping out nearly 94% of the token’s value within hours.According to onchain
Crypto businesses in El Salvador are hopeful that a Donald Trump presidency will soften banking resistance to the industry, making it easier to operate as the world’s largest economy moves toward greater crypto adoption. This would mark a stark shift
By Brian SwintBitcoin, the largest and oldest cryptocurrency, was rising early Friday along with other big-name tokens. It's likely being helped by fresh interest in the assets.GameStop, the videogame retailer that gained fame as a meme stock in 2020
US Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is pushing back against Elon Musk and Donald Trump over efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the agency she helped create in 2007.The CFPB — the US government agency focused on c
Bitcoin has lingered below the psychological $100,000 level for seven days, but a crypto researcher says there’s a nearly 50% chance it will surge to $125,000 by late June.The chance of Bitcoin hitting $125,000 by the middle of this year “has improv
Over $2.5 billion worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum options contracts are set to expire this Friday. Moreover, markets are still reeling from US economic data this week, including CPI and PPI, but can the derivatives’ expiry event today push prices highe
Robinhood has cemented its foothold in the crypto trading market as its commission-free model attracts price-conscious customers, analysts said, strengthening its position as a rival to digital asset-focused exchanges such as Coinbase .Robinhood
Nearly a third of US states are venturing into a financial frontier once considered to be completely unthinkable: creating a strategic Bitcoin reserve. While US President Donald Trump’s vision for a national digital asset stockpile is still developin
Popular trading platform Robinhood beat its fourth-quarter earnings and revenue estimates, which could have positive read-through for peer Coinbase .Robinhood said its fourth-quarter revenue rose 115% from the previous year to $1.01 billion, beating