Washington views Brazil’s promotion of non-dollar payment channels, including Pix and the growth of stablecoins, as a potential threat to dollar-based trade, even as dollar-linked stablecoins account for about 90% of Brazil’s crypto transactions.
The FTX Recovery Trust and company have distributed about $10 billion since the exchange filed for bankruptcy in November 2022, leaving users cut off from their funds.
Galaxy Digital will rename Texas Tech’s football stadium under a 15-year agreement, expanding its West Texas presence as the state attracts growing crypto investment.
Through an introduction with a “reputable third-party service provider,“ the company took on a developer who, as part of an investigation, was revealed to be tied to North Korea.
Bolivia moves to recognize USDT amid a dollar shortage, while Bitcoin miners’ AI ambitions face fresh investor scrutiny.
Polymarket bettors have cut the odds of the CLARITY Act passing this year to a record low as Senate negotiations over ethics provisions remain unresolved.
“Over time the economic incentives will drive $DOG Mode’s adoption and force Bitcoin Core to stop gatekeeping and allow these completely valid transactions,” said Leonidas.
While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote at all.
The launch gives Bybit a locally operated platform in one of Asia’s largest crypto markets, home to more than 21 million crypto exchange users.
Geopolitical tensions and renewed fears of U.S.-China frictions are weighing on risk assets, including bitcoin.
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT came down heavily on hardware wallets. BTC traded steady near $65,000 after South Korea’s rate hike.
The coins went to a fresh address rather than an exchange, so nothing has been sold yet.
This is not a broad rally as bitcoin is up 4% over the same stretch, and solana, TRON and hyperliquid are all lower.
US President Donald Trump is set to meet with several senators on Thursday as negotiators race to get the CLARITY Act across the line before the Senate’s August recess.
Forty companies now govern x402, the protocol Coinbase built and handed away. It settled about $24 million last month across 75 million payments.
“We are disappointed by this decision and believe it is unfair to Kalshi,” the company’s legal counsel said on X.
The June CPI print pulled hike odds from 43% to 13%, with analysts now watching the September FOMC meeting for further cues on positioning.
“US Treasury is committed to disrupting and degrading Iran’s illicit financial activities, including its abuse of digital assets,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday.
Solo Bitcoin mining has surged, with 24 blocks found in the past 12 months, a 41% increase year over year.
Witt’s departure comes during a critical moment for the CLARITY Act, with deputy director Harry Jung expected to assume his responsibilities.
The transfers have raised questions over Trump’s Bitcoin reserve pledge, though deposits to Coinbase Prime do not confirm an impending sale.
Major cryptocurrencies have dropped by 2% or more in 24 hours as traders boosted bets of a July Fed rate hike.
The AI-native cohort of the expanding gig economy could increasingly use stablecoins to avoid slow and expensive traditional payment rails, Australian crypto exchange Swyftx said.
Gold, oil, stocks and bonds all moved sharply on the fourth round of U.S. strikes on Iran, but bitcoin is little-changed.
Thailand has been plagued by Chinese-affiliated scam centers, with illicit gains flowing through a “gray money” economy.
Analysts are not yet ready to call it a recovery in institutional demand for Bitcoin.
Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse says he and co-founder Chris Larsen considered winding the company down and handing its XRP to shareholders before deciding to fight the 2020 lawsuit.
The BIP 110 proposal would cap arbitrary data on Bitcoin for a year, but Saylor, Adam Back and others say turning a spam dispute into a consensus fight could create a bigger risk than the
The ongoing debate comes despite a broad downturn in Ordinals transaction activity over the last two years.
The sales come months after a major Empery shareholder demanded the firm ditch its Bitcoin treasury strategy and force the resignation of its CEO and board.
More than 70,000 agentic accounts have already been created by Robinhood equities and options traders since late May, when Robinhood launched a beta version of the product.
Analysts predict a rally to $300,000 or more by 2029. But key data suggests the era of moonshots may be over.
Matthew Goettsche was set to face trial in October for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and selling unregistered securities.
Alex Schultz says stablecoins are assumed inside Meta. The harder problem is getting the rest of the world there.
Robinhood’s choice to use Ethereum further solidifies its position as the “ultimate settlement layer and liquidity foundation for tokenized assets,” said HashKey Group’s Tim Sun.
A late-session volume surge carried XRP above its recent range, with traders now watching whether $1.10 can hold as support.
A sharp rise in the yen has left bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies underperforming in yen terms compared with their dollar-based trading pairs.
Zcash’s next upgrade will replace the once-compromised Orchard pool and may offer clues about whether counterfeit tokens were created via a recent bug.
Bitcoin is up 4.2% over seven days that contained an oil shock, a bond selloff and two rounds of U.S. strikes on Iran.
Hackers have also been exploiting the codebases of defunct decentralized finance protocols, draining millions of dollars in customer funds.
XRP defended the $1.00-$1.05 support zone, but the near-term chart remains capped below resistance as analysts track larger wedge and channel patterns.
Oil climbed for a third day and gold fell for a fourth while bitcoin is up 1.6% on the week.
Ongoing strong demand for AI infrastructure “would likely sustain upward pressure on prices for technology products and electricity,” Federal Reserve policymakers said.
Crypto venture firm Paradigm is widening its investment gaze toward AI and other frontier industries with its latest fund.
Swyftx interim co-CEO Andrea Yuen says the company “won’t be a pure crypto spot exchange in future,” after it secured a license allowing it to offer payment services.
Hedge funds have turned the most bearish on the yen since 2007, boosting bets on further losses to nearly 138,000 contracts as of June 30.
Major cryptocurrencies are trading in the red as renewed U.S.-Iran airstrikes push oil higher.
“The security risk is the part we take most seriously,” the team said, citing old code and AI exploit risks.
The CFTC has launched a rare crypto-related enforcement action against a commodity pool operator that allegedly defrauded investors of more than $14 million.
Buyers defended the session lows and pushed XRP back toward resistance, but muted overall volume left traders waiting for confirmation above $1.13-$1.14.
