Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is looking to increase its headcount, with more than half the added roles dedicated to regulating crypto, according to a two-year budget plan presented to the Legislative Council, the region's legis

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is pressing US regulators to confirm that banks are free to provide services to crypto businesses.Coinbase sent a letter to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Reserve Board of Governors a

Hong Kong’s securities watchdog has proposed adding headcounts for cryptocurrency-specific staff as the region continues its drive to become a crypto hub.In a budget plan for the financial year 2025 to 2026, the Securities and Futures Commission prop

As February began, crypto investors found themselves inside a turbulent market after the digital asset space went crashing down, leading to more than $2 billion in crypto liquidations and Bitcoin price plunged near the $90,000 mark. Analysts attribut

Cryptocurrencies saw nearly $500 billion of value erased since Saturday's announcement that the US will impose tariffs on three of its biggest trading partners as soon as Tuesday, driving investors away from riskier assets. Bitcoin (BTC) was down abo

Following President Trump’s tariff announcement over the weekend, the 24/7 crypto market was the first to react, with prices plunging considerably amid the risk-off sentiment and various analysts weighing in on what happens next.Responding to Preside

The crypto market has responded to President Trump's plan to implement 25% tariffs on imported goods from Canada and Mexico, with 10% tariffs on Canadian energy and Chinese goods, with a broad sell-off that has hit memecoins particularly hard.The imp

Memecoin generator Pump.fun was hit with another proposed class action lawsuit on Thursday, accusing the company and its executives of raking in nearly $500 million in fees while violating U.S. securities laws.The suit, filed in the Southern District

Grayscale, a leading asset management firm specializing in crypto investing, is launching its Bitcoin Miners ETF, aiming to offer investors exposure to Bitcoin miners and the global mining ecosystem through companies listed in the Indxx Bitcoin Miner

The FED has kept interest rates unchanged at a range of 4.25% to 4.50% after three consecutive rate cuts. Jerome Powell, FED chair, said that the policymakers are in no hurry to adjust their policy stance, which has been ‘significantly less restricti

Opinion by: Peter Schroeder, director of global marketing at CircleJust as the invention of APIs enabled software by allowing systems to communicate and operate autonomously, stablecoins are becoming the financial APIs of artificial intelligence. API

Top Stories of The WeekNasdaq seeks amendment to BlackRocks Bitcoin ETF for in-kind redemptionsNasdaq has submitted a filing on behalf of asset manager BlackRock, seeking a rule change to permit in-kind creation and redemption for its spot Bitcoin ex

Bitcoin has still not become overbought according to the Mayer Multiple. Here’s the level BTC would need to breech in order to enter this territory.Bitcoin Mayer Multiple Has A Value Of 1.37 Right NowIn a new post on X, the analytics firm Glassnode h

Chainlink (LINK) has experienced a significant surge in its price, which analysts are attributing to the additional acquisition of World Liberty Financial (WLFI) and the rumors of a brewing partnership with Cardano.Chainlink could be off to a good st

Crypto and equities markets roared toward new highs on Jan. 21, with Bitcoin making up the bulk of the ground lost during its pullback on Jan. 20. In the US, stock markets were closed on Jan. 20 in observation of Martin Luther King Jr. day, but trade

U.S. President Donald Trump and his entourage have already made tens of billions of dollars in profits (at least on paper) off of the Official Trump (TRUMP) and Melania Meme (MELANIA) tokens that launched on Solana in the last three days.Now trading

By Elsa OhlenPresident Donald Trump and First Lady Melania both launched cryptos ahead of their return to the White House in what is largely being taken as a positive sign for the digital asset market as a whole.The 47th president announced the arriv

Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solutions may soon hit their limits in efficiently scaling the mainnet, warns Gautham Santhosh, co-founder of Polynomial.fi.Layer 2 solutions are protocols or networks built on top of a layer-1 networks to improve its scalabi

The crypto industry has high hopes that United States President-elect Donald Trump will bolster crypto adoption both in the US and globally. However, only time will tell if his newly launched Solana-based memecoin is a step in the right direction.Tru

Bitcoin hit its strongest price in U.S. dollar terms in 2025 on Friday and notched a new record against the British pound as excitement for a new era of crypto-friendly U.S. government mounts ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration next week.BTC topped