Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Recent volatility reviews, new surveillance systems and a landmark court ruling show how South Korea is enforcing stricter oversight of crypto markets.South Korean regulators are stepping up oversight of the domestic cryptocurrency market, signaling...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Vitalik Buterin sold almost 3,000 ETH worth $6.6 million through a series of swaps days after saying withdrawals from his holdings were coming.Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold about 2,961 Ether worth $6.6 million over a three-day period, afte...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin ETFs saw $545 million in daily outflows as BTC neared $70,000, though analysts said most investors were holding positions despite market weakness.Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) extended losses on Wednesday amid BTC price approaching the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
A Nevada judge declined to grant regulators’ bid to halt Coinbase’s event contract markets, as the exchange presses a CFTC preemption argument in federal court.A Nevada state court denied regulators’ request for an emergency temporary restraining ord...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
USDt added $12.4 billion in Q4 to reach a $187.3 billion market cap, increasing users and onchain activity even as rival stablecoins declined after October’s liquidation event.Tether’s dollar-pegged stablecoin USDt expanded to a record $187.3 billion...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin selling pressure sparked a retreat below the 2021 bull market high, with lower BTC price targets still expected to be hit.Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $70,000 on Thursday as suspicions over coordinated selling boiled over.Key points:Bitcoin tumbl...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin ETFs may be sitting on their “biggest losses” since launching in January 2024, but there is a silver lining, according to an ETF analyst.US-based spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) holders are showing relatively firm conviction despite a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin’s Coinbase Premium Gap has fallen to a yearly low, a move analysts say may reflect weaker relative demand on Coinbase-linked venues tied to institutional trading.The Coinbase Premium Gap, which tracks the price difference between Bitcoin on C...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The dark web drug market used crypto for payments, but blockchain transaction tracing helped the FBI identify its creator, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison.The creator of Incognito Market, the online black market that used cryptocurrency as it...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Some crypto companies have proposed giving community banks a bigger stablecoin role as Senate negotiations stall over the contentious market structure bill.Crypto companies are reportedly floating concessions relating to stablecoin yields in an attem...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bhutan has slipped to the seventh-largest nation-state Bitcoin holder, with its stash falling from 13,295 BTC in October 2024 to 5,700 BTC.Bhutan has offloaded over $22 million in Bitcoin mined through its state-owned mining venture as the cryptocurr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bhutan has slipped to the seventh-largest nation-state Bitcoin holder, with its stash falling from 13,295 BTC in October 2024 to 5,700 BTC.Bhutan has offloaded another $22 million in Bitcoin mined through its state-owned mining venture, with the sale...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Payy’s new privacy layer 2 makes every ERC-20 transfer private by default without the need for new wallets or tokens.Crypto project Payy, which operates a privacy-focused wallet alongside a crypto banking card, has just launched a privacy-enabled Eth...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Payy says its new layer-2 network routes ERC-20 transfers through privacy pools by default without requiring new wallets or tokens.Crypto project Payy, which operates a privacy-focused wallet alongside a crypto banking card, has launched an Ethereum...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Social media sentiment has turned “extremely bearish” toward Bitcoin and Ethereum this week, according to analytics platform Santiment.XRP sentiment on social media has remained relatively robust despite a crypto market slump that has seen Bitcoin fa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
CFTC Chair Mike Selig described the proposal as a “frolic into merit regulation” by the Biden administration.The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has withdrawn a Biden administration-era proposal that would have banned sports and political pre...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Strium will begin with synthetic US and Japanese stocks and commodities before expanding to real tokenized shares and asset-backed products with identity verification.Startale Group and Japan’s financial conglomerate SBI Holdings have launched Strium...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Solana became one of Samani’s favorite crypto projects at Multicoin in 2018 after he initially favored Ethereum but grew dissatisfied with how its developers addressed scaling.Multicoin Capital co-founder Kyle Samani said he is stepping down as manag...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin’s 12-day ETF outflows, derivatives data and the crypto market in tandem trading with tech stocks suggest traders will continue to cut exposure to risk assets.Key takeaways:Heavy outflows from Bitcoin exchange-traded funds and massive liquidat...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Speaking on the company's earnings call, CEO Terry Duffy said the exchange is exploring a CME-issued token and is also piloting tokenized cash infrastructure with Google.Chicago-based derivatives exchange CME Group is weighing the launch of its own d...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The proposed laws are meant to create a mass-surveillance state and are not about protecting children, Pavel Durov warned on Wednesday.Pavel Durov, co-founder of the Telegram messaging platform, sounded an alarm about the Spanish government’s plan to...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Futures traders drastically reduced their activity as Bitcoin’s weakness extends and new year-to-date lows become a daily occurrence. Cointelegraph reviews traders’ BTC price expectations.Bitcoin’s (BTC) struggle to hold above $70,000 carried into We...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The comments came during Bessent's congressional testimony on Wednesday in a tense exchange with California Representative Brad Sherman.United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testified before Congress on Wednesday and reiterated that the US w...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin price hit a 15-month low of $72,169, leading one analyst to say a revisit of BTC’s realized price near $56,000 may occur in a few months. Do charts hint at a rebound rally before the weekend?Key points:Bitcoin remains under pressure as the be...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The listing follows Bitnomial’s January launch of Aptos futures, as the exchange continues expanding US-regulated derivatives beyond Bitcoin and Ether.The Chicago-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitnomial has launched futures tied to Tezos’s XTZ token,...
