Elon Musk’s ‘America Party’, a pro-tech centrist party the Tesla and SpaceX founder plans to form after his split from President Donald Trump, would embrace bitcoin Musk said on X. @elonmusk, will America Party embrace Bitcoin? — Renato Lima 🇧🇷🇺🇸 (@RenatoLima_X) July 7, 2025 Musk has been a long supporter of cryptocurrencies, with SpaceX and […]
The Bitcoin blockchain lacks meaningful on-chain activity, even as its native token, bitcoin , trades near a record per-unit price. That’s according to mempool – a holding area for unconfirmed blockchain transactions waiting to be included in a block by miners. On Satuday, the mempool had just 5,000 odd transactions awaiting inclusion, with the tally […]
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At the time of writing, Ether is trading at around $2,505, up 0.56% in the past 24-hours, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. As for the broader crypto market as gauged by the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20), it is up 0.34% during the same period. SharpLink Gaming, Inc. (SBET) is a pioneering online performance […]
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AI-focused NEAR token slumped by 5% on Friday despite the launch of Bitwise’s NEAR exchange-traded product (ETP). The sell-off comes during a muted day for cryptocurrencies with bitcoin also falling back from its test of a new record high. The launch of Bitwise’s NEAR Staking ETP marks a significant milestone for institutional adoption of the […]
Tokenization platform Ondo Finance said it agreed to buy Oasis Pro, a regulated brokerage platform, laying the groundwork for rolling out tokenized stocks in the coming months. The acquisition, whose price was not disclosed, would give Ondo a bundle of U.S. securities licenses: a broker-dealer, Alternative Trading System (ATS) and transfer agent regulated by the […]
Amber International Holding (AMBR), a crypto trading firm Amber Group subsidiary, said it raised $25.5 million in a private placement to expand its $100 million Crypto Ecosystem Reserve, a fund designed to support strategic growth across blockchain networks. The raise, announced Thursday, was priced at $10.45 per share, which is a 5% discount to the […]
Coinone won an appeal to force five of customers to return bitcoin they managed to double withdraw from the South Korean crypto exchange over a glitch in 2018. According to local media, the Seoul Western District Court’s second civil division said the traders benefited from “unjust enrichment” because the exchange had already completed the first […]
Tokenized equity offerings for OpenAI being offered to Robinhood users in Europe are not officially authorized by the company, the AI giant said in a social media post. “These ‘OpenAI tokens’ are not OpenAI equity. We did not partner with Robinhood, were not involved in this, and do not endorse it,” OpenAI posted on X. […]
Layer-2 network BOB has launched its testnet ahead of the mainnet going live in Q4 of this year. Describing itself as a hybrid layer-2, BOB’s aim is to combine Bitcoin’s security and reserves with Ethereum’s programmability using the BitVM computing paradigm to create a decentralized finance (DeFi) hub. BitVM was introduced in late 2023 by […]
As Asia opens the Wednesday trading day, bitcoin is changing hands above $105.5K, a slight correction from $107K, where it sat during the U.S. business day. Despite the geopolitical upheaval of the last few weeks – with the U.S. strike on Iran, an event that surprised both geopolitical scholars and Polymarket bettors – BTC has […]
Hackers stole more than $2.47 billion worth of cryptocurrency in the first half of 2025, already exceeding last year’s total of $2.42 billion, according to Certik’s Hack3d Report. The majority of that figure can be attributed to two incidents; the Bybit breach and the Cetus Protocol exploit that combined were worth $1.78 billion. Wallet compromise […]