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Revolut has entered a “mobilization stage”, designed for new banks to operate with restrictions.Read More

Renewed expansion in stablecoins is bullish for the broader crypto market.Read More

India plans to put out a discussion paper outlining its policy stance on cryptocurrencies before September, according to Indian news outlet Moneycontrol citing an interview with Senior Finance Ministry Official Ajay Seth.Read More

The company already runs nodes on multiple blockchain networks and is considering bitcoin mining plans, its web3 head revealed last month at a conference.Read More

BTC nosedived from over $65,500 to $64,100 within minutes in the early hours of Thursday as Asian markets suffered.Read More

Most Ether ETFs were in the green during the Wednesday U.S. trading session, but Grayscale’s converted Ethereum Trust ETF posted a net outflow of over $800 million.Read More

The approval and subsequent trading of spot ether ETFs in the U.S. has reinvigorated the market, CME’s Giovanni Vicioso said.Read More

The surging trading volumes helped the bank reach profitability for the first time.Read More

Solana’s SOL and Ripple’s XRP were notable outperformers.Read More

With bitcoin steady and tech stocks tanking, is this BTC’s decoupling moment? If so, former president Trump may be the reason, says CoinDesk’s senior analyst George Kaloudis.Read More

Low liquidity, regulatory uncertainty and speculative behavior contributes to inefficiency in crypto markets. But systematic approaches, including momentum indexes, can reduce risks to investors, says Gregory Mall, head of investment solutions at AMINA Bank.Read More

Alby co-founder Michael Bumann intends to make Alby a go to Lightning wallet and hub for everyone from Bitcoin beginners to advanced Lightning enthusiasts — and its implementation of Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) should only help it stand out.Read More

The range of returns available across digital asset markets offers unique opportunities for investors, says Alex Botte, Partner at Hack VC, a crypto-native venture capital firm.Read More

As Bitcoiners descend on Nashville for a big annual conference, we’re covering robust demand for new Ethereum spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and recapping the $230 million WazirX hack.Read More

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Customers of the defunct crypto exchange lost their funds in a 2014 hack.Read More

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XRP and NEAR lead today’s CoinDesk 20 gains with 5.6% and 3.3% increasesRead More

Alby launches Alby Hub, a one click install Lightning node with seamless self-custodial wallet integration and ability to connect external Lightning apps.Read More

The crypto-native company, which says it is attempting to right the wrongs of centralized lenders like Celsius, emerged from stealth on Wednesday.Read More

As Ethereum’s Layer-2 ecosystem booms, Caldera’s “Metalayer” aims to help developers quickly launch applications across multiple networks.Read More

Bitcoin is more than a payment system like Paypal, it is digital cash, a system you cannot be shut out of when you need it most.Read More

D8X Co-Founder Caspar Sauter explained in an interview that leverage is the missing part of the prediction markets economy, as it allows for higher market efficiency.Read More

Riot will have the second-largest capacity among U.S. listed bitcoin miners following the acquisition, and the deal serves as the latest evaluation of underdeveloped power assets, the report said.Read More

AgriDex, a Solana-based marketplace aiming to bring the global agricultural market on-chain by tokenizing various crops has settled its first agricultural trade on the Solana blockchain, it told CoinDesk on Wednesday.Read More

The cross-chain service is popularly used to transfer funds between Ethereum, Base and Solana blockchains.Read More

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for July 24, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.Read More

Luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari announced it will expand the ability to pay with Bitcoin and crypto to its European dealerships starting this month. The move comes after Ferrari first began accepting Bitcoin and crypto payments at its US dealers last year. Ferrari said the rollout to Europe …Read More

The trendline connecting 2016 and 2017 lows has consistently offered support since January.Read More

Proton, the company behind the encrypted email service ProtonMail, has released Proton Wallet, a non-custodial bitcoin wallet that makes transacting with bitcoin as simple as sending an email.Read More

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Bitwise’s BITB led with $70 million in net outflows, followed by Ark’s ARKB at $52 million and Grayscale’s GBTC at $27 million.Read More

The broker raised its price target for the shares to $15 from $12 and reiterated its buy rating.Read More

The defunct exchange has moved billions of dollars worth of bitcoin over two days.Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris is now the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States, after President Joe Biden abruptly announced he was withdrawing from the race. With her assent to the top of the party ticket comes questions about how a potential Harris Administration might differ from the Biden Administration’s approach to…Read More

The Major Payment Institution license would allow for the company to offer regulated Digital Payment Token services, such as custody.Read More

Investors traded over $1 billion worth of shares – or ether {{ETH}} – of the freshly launched ether exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuers on the first day of trading, data from Bloomberg shows.Read More

Ethena’s proposal to allocate funds to tokenized real-world assets for yield follows similar actions by crypto lender MakerDAO and Ethereum layer-2 Arbitrum’s development organization.Read More

Coinbase Inc. (COIN) is going after internal chatter at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that may shed light on its pursuit of cryptocurrency exchanges as illegal enterprises – including Chair Gary Gensler’s own communications – but the scope of its latest request filed on Tuesday has been dialed back after resistance from a…Read More

The imminent distribution of nearly $9 billion worth of bitcoin and bitcoin cash to Mt. Gox creditors have been a major overhang on crypto markets, with investors concerned about how much of those assets will be sold.Read More

The eight recently launched spot ethereum {{ETH}} exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted nearly $600 million worth of volume in the first half of their first day of availability, according to data from Bloomberg.Read More

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Today’s announcement by Lightning Labs opens the door to Bitcoin becoming a multi-asset networkRead More

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Two more promoters of the Forcount crypto ponzi scheme – a Brazil-based scam that bilked Spanish-speaking investors out of $8.4 million between 2017 and 2021 – have pleaded guilty to their roles in the scheme.Read More

The CEOs of SunnySide Digital and Cryptech Solutions form a new company — Synteq Digital — to meet the needs of the growing digital mining and high-performance computing (HPC) industries.Read More

Revolut has been in talks with investment firm Greenoaks over the deal, which would pave the way for a potential IPO.Read More

ETH ETFs finally make their debut in the U.S. this week. How will the market react and will Ethereum as a development ecosystem benefit? George Kaloudis raises the questions we’re looking forward to answering.Read More

After becoming the “MicroStrategy of Asia”, Metaplanet launches Bitcoin proof of reserves.Read More

A decline of 5.6% in ICP and 5.2% in AVAX dragged the index down in overnight trading.Read More

Politicians in Washington D.C. warming to the idea of Bitcoin should not incite apathy from politicians and policy makers at the state level.Read More

Market observers expect ether to outperform bitcoin in the coming weeks as the token gives exposure to a flourishing Ethereum ecosystem.Read More

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for July 23, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.Read More

One question is whether the protocol can pull in loyal bitcoin users – or if it will eventually end up on an Ethereum-compatible layer-2 network atop Bitcoin.Read More

Bitlayer’s layer 2 is based on the BitVM paradigm, which was unveiled last October and laid out a path for Ethereum-style smart contracts on the original blockchain.Read More

The Wall Street bank increased its price target on the crypto exchange’s shares to $345 from $260.Read More

Libre is unveiling a new tokenized offering, the blockchain-based Hamilton Lane SCOPE senior credit fund, which will be available on Solana and Ethereum-compatible chains.Read More

Layer-2 transactions have increased 20% since the Dencun upgrade in March, and that success could be a positive sign for the future of the network, the report said.Read More

Crypto exchange Gate.io has terminated its services in Japan, it announced on Monday, suggesting a lack of compliance in the nation.Read More

BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF saw a massive $526 million inflow on Monday, marking the largest single day gain for the fund since March.Read More

Three finalists are competing for $1 million in seed capital at the Bitcoin Alpha Competition. Crowd-sourced fund managers are taking center stage at the world’s largest Bitcoin conference.Read More

A look at how Bitcoin mining and AI can work together to create streamlined data center operations and facilitate efficient power grid management.Read More

A new option for using Bitcoin is coming to the Breez SDK.Read More

Hong Kong’s Stock Exchange to launch Asia’s first inverse Bitcoin ETF tomorrow, providing a new tool for traders to hedge risk and speculate on Bitcoin’s volatility.Read More

A golfer’s guide to your bitcoin journey.Read More

Donald Trump says Bitcoin is “not going away” and that the U.S. must lead in Bitcoin and crypto innovation before China in a major reversal from his previous skepticism.Read More

Next week’s Open-Source Stage at Bitcoin Nashville will showcase the latest in Bitcoin innovation, focusing on programmability, privacy, Core development and ecashRead More

A response to the recent piece “Reflections on Bitcoin Culture” by Margot Paez, by Joakim Book.Read More

This strategic collaboration provides Bitcoin Magazine Pro users with more real-time data and market-leading chart intelligence.Read More

An open-source collaboration between StarkWare and venture firm L2 Iterative makes history verifying the first validity proof on a Bitcoin testnetRead More

NoOnes CEO, Ray Youssef, discusses one of the keys to making his P2P plan for the Global South a realityRead More

Shezan Maredia, founder and CEO of Lava, is working to create an easy-to-use and secure Bitcoin financial app. Lava Vault, a state-of-the-art self-custody wallet, is its newest feature, while Lava Loans is on the way.Read More

Navigating media bias is important in a digital age when that bias is becoming more pronounced.Read More

Leading Latin American crypto exchange Bitso has partnered with Lightspark to bring faster, cheaper Bitcoin Lightning transactions to Bitso’s 8 million users.Read More

Mt. Gox’s rehabilitation trustee transferred around $6 billion worth of Bitcoin to new wallets, taking further steps to reimburse creditors from the exchange’s infamous 2014 hack.Read More

Contestants will showcase their talents by creating original Bitcoin commercials, memes, and more, to win the grand prize of $5,000 in BTC.Read More

Bitcoin is for anyone who needs it, not just people who conform to preconceived notions of what is the acceptable culture.Read More

Bitcoin’s price spiked past $63,000 over the weekend after an assassination attempt on Donald Trump boosted odds of his election victory.Read More

We are just entering the era of “then they fight us.” Now is not a time to be complacent about inevitable victory, but one to shore up our defenses and do the work needed to make Bitcoin succeed. From “The Halving Issue.”Read More

A look at how Coinbits profiles different users in order to craft their user experience to meet the needs of different users.Read More

Established security practices have failed to accommodate a growing segment of the Bitcoin user marketRead More

How the fiat card-linked merchant offers business is transformed through migration from fiat to bitcoin rails.Read More

Germany transferred more Bitcoin to exchanges, leaving it with just $765 million of its massive seized reserves as its months-long liquidation spree nears its end.Read More

The leading U.S. Presidential candidate is officially speaking at the world’s largest Bitcoin conference.Read More

Samourai Wallet developer William Lonergan Hill makes his first public court appearance, while the US Department of Justice (DoJ) updates the court on how it plans to proceed with its case against Hill and his former partner at Samourai, Keonne Rodriguez.Read More

A high level breakdown of the contents of the webinar hosted earlier today by the EIA to assess how to move forward in data collection efforts regarding Bitcoin mining operations in the United States.Read More

Core Scientific is now the first to use Block’s new ASIC technology for large-scale mining operations.Read More

Foundation’s co-founder and CEO Zach Herbert is on a mission to create Bitcoin products with the sleekness and usability of Apple devices but that also protect user privacy and are built with open-source code.Read More

The EIA is hosting a webinar on mining energy use at 12:00 PM Central Standard Time today, July 10th.Read More

Santa Monica became the first U.S. city to open an official Bitcoin office, partnering with Proof of Workforce to provide Bitcoin education and explore potential economic opportunities.Read More

A look at Bitcoin’s potential role in geopolitics and international diplomacy in a hyperbitcoinized world.Read More

Maya Parbhoe is running for President of Suriname on a pro-Bitcoin platform. The trailblazing businesswoman wants to get the Surinamese people out of “survival mode” and take on the corruption that plagues her country, some which has impacted her on the most personal level.Read More

Blackburn joins Donald Trump and other politicians embracing Bitcoin.Read More

Australia’s leading stock exchange, the ASX, approved its second Bitcoin ETF, reflecting growing appetite for Bitcoin investment vehicles within the mainstream Australian market.Read More

The draft will face a final vote on Tuesday.Read More

Why validating your bitcoin yourself, instead of outsourcing that to third parties, is of critical importance to the systemic security of the Bitcoin system itself.Read More

The German government shifted another $56 million in Bitcoin to different platforms, continuing to offload portions of its massive Bitcoin trove and fueling volatility amid creditor payouts from Mt. Gox.Read More

Japanese company Metaplanet bought another ¥400 million ($2.5M) in Bitcoin, continuing its strategy of accumulating Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset to mimic MicroStrategy.Read More

A Review of the Amicus Briefs in the Custodia Case.Read More

Bitcoin’s price plunged below $55,000 as the now-defunct Mt Gox exchange began distributing billions in owed funds to creditors, sparking a broader Bitcoin and crypto market sell-off.Read More