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‘Not a crypto winter, just a cold breeze’: Standard Chartered halves 2025 bitcoin target to $100K, but keeps long-term bull case

‘Not a crypto winter, just a cold breeze’: Standar...

4 months ago 52

CryptoUK joins The Digital Chamber as transatlantic digital asset rules take shape

CryptoUK joins The Digital Chamber as transatlanti...

4 months ago 42

Vintage privacy project Horizen relaunches as Layer 3 on Base

Vintage privacy project Horizen relaunches as Laye...

4 months ago 65

Bitcoin holds $90,000 as markets await Fed rate cut decision and Powell’s guidance

Bitcoin holds $90,000 as markets await Fed rate cu...

4 months ago 41

Bitwise CIO sees crypto growing 10–20x in the next decade, citing SEC Chair’s $68 trillion onchain forecast

Bitwise CIO sees crypto growing 10–20x in the next...

4 months ago 49

Circle secures Abu Dhabi license; eyes payment, settlement expansion in UAE

Circle secures Abu Dhabi license; eyes payment, se...

4 months ago 47

HashKey launches Hong Kong IPO, seeking up to $215 million

HashKey launches Hong Kong IPO, seeking up to $215...

4 months ago 51

Tether gains Abu Dhabi’s approval to expand USDT use across nine major chains

Tether gains Abu Dhabi’s approval to expand USDT u...

4 months ago 52

22-year-old pleads guilty to money laundering for $263 million crypto syndicate

22-year-old pleads guilty to money laundering for ...

4 months ago 55

Sen. Moreno calls crypto bill talks ‘decently frustrating’ as Senate races toward year-end goal posts

Sen. Moreno calls crypto bill talks ‘decently frus...

4 months ago 68

CFTC clears path for ETH, Bitcoin and USDC to be used as collateral in derivatives markets

CFTC clears path for ETH, Bitcoin and USDC to be u...

4 months ago 51

Tether joins $80 million funding round for Italian humanoids built for high-risk industrial jobs

Tether joins $80 million funding round for Italian...

4 months ago 49

HYPE token treasury Hyperliquid Strategies rolls out $30 million stock repurchase program

HYPE token treasury Hyperliquid Strategies rolls o...

4 months ago 50

The Daily: Robinhood’s expansion plans, BlackRock’s staked Ethereum ETF filing, Strategy’s biggest Bitcoin buy since July, and more

The Daily: Robinhood’s expansion plans, BlackRock’...

4 months ago 52

BitMine reports $13.2 billion in holdings as ETH treasury expands after November slowdown

BitMine reports $13.2 billion in holdings as ETH t...

4 months ago 60

Binance post confirming insider trading sends ‘year of the yellow fruit’ meme token even higher

Binance post confirming insider trading sends ‘yea...

4 months ago 35

Yearn Finance details $9 million yETH exploit, confirms partial recovery and outlines remediation plan

Yearn Finance details $9 million yETH exploit, con...

4 months ago 65

Circle partners with Bybit in push to drive USDC adoption outside Coinbase ecosystem

Circle partners with Bybit in push to drive USDC a...

4 months ago 52

Tether-backed payments startup Oobit expands into US

Tether-backed payments startup Oobit expands into ...

4 months ago 60

BlackRock moves to add staked Ethereum ETF with fresh SEC filing

BlackRock moves to add staked Ethereum ETF with fr...

4 months ago 54

SEC ends Biden-era investigation into Ondo Finance without charges, firm says

SEC ends Biden-era investigation into Ondo Finance...

4 months ago 50

Stable, a Bitfinex-backed Layer 1 using Tether’s USDT for gas, launches mainnet and native token

Stable, a Bitfinex-backed Layer 1 using Tether’s U...

4 months ago 62

Michael Saylor’s Strategy buys another 10,624 bitcoin for $963 million as treasury holdings reach 660,624 BTC

Michael Saylor’s Strategy buys another 10,624 bitc...

4 months ago 62

Crypto VC Paradigm bets $13.5 million on stablecoin startup Crown in first Brazil investment

Crypto VC Paradigm bets $13.5 million on stablecoi...

4 months ago 51

Robinhood targets savvy crypto traders with lower fees, more leverage for XRP, SOL and DOGE futures

Robinhood targets savvy crypto traders with lower ...

4 months ago 42

Ripple’s $500 million share sale included investor protections guaranteeing profits: Bloomberg

Ripple’s $500 million share sale included investor...

4 months ago 53

Vitalik Buterin pushes for trustless gas futures market to hedge Ethereum fees, sparking debate over feasibility

Vitalik Buterin pushes for trustless gas futures m...

4 months ago 63

Global crypto ETPs log $716 million in weekly inflows amid easing negative sentiment: CoinShares

Global crypto ETPs log $716 million in weekly infl...

4 months ago 41

Argentina weighs allowing domestic banks to offer crypto services

Argentina weighs allowing domestic banks to offer ...

4 months ago 51

Robinhood to enter Indonesia by acquiring local crypto trading firm

Robinhood to enter Indonesia by acquiring local cr...

4 months ago 54

Farcaster shifts focus to wallet service over social app, citing growth potential

Farcaster shifts focus to wallet service over soci...

4 months ago 45

Coinbase reopens app in India after two-year hiatus: report

Coinbase reopens app in India after two-year hiatu...

4 months ago 47

Bittensor’s halving next week expected to boost TAO price, Grayscale says

Bittensor’s halving next week expected to boost TA...

4 months ago 60

ZKsync to deprecate ZKsync Lite in 2026, sunsetting Ethereum’s first ZK rollup

ZKsync to deprecate ZKsync Lite in 2026, sunsettin...

4 months ago 66

Canada targets Dapper Labs users in second-ever crypto tax probe as enforcement gap widens: report

Canada targets Dapper Labs users in second-ever cr...

4 months ago 61

Aztec Network raises over $60 million in ETH with community-first token sale, testing new auction model

Aztec Network raises over $60 million in ETH with ...

4 months ago 44

Jupiter exec acknowledges ‘zero contagion’ claim was ‘not 100% correct’ after backlash over vault design

Jupiter exec acknowledges ‘zero contagion’ claim w...

4 months ago 40

Poland becomes EU’s lone MiCA holdout after parliament fails to overturn veto on crypto bill

Poland becomes EU’s lone MiCA holdout after parlia...

4 months ago 52

MetaMask moves into prediction markets with Polymarket integration

MetaMask moves into prediction markets with Polyma...

4 months ago 49

Meta cuts to metaverse ‘black hole’ could free up billions for AI and lift shares by 20%: analysts

Meta cuts to metaverse ‘black hole’ could free up ...

4 months ago 58

The Daily: JPMorgan says Strategy is key to bitcoin’s next move, IMF warns stablecoins may weaken central bank control, and more

The Daily: JPMorgan says Strategy is key to bitcoi...

4 months ago 62

WisdomTree first to market with Ethereum staking fund using Lido’s stETH

WisdomTree first to market with Ethereum staking f...

4 months ago 51

Strive urges MSCI to ‘let the market decide’ on Bitcoin treasury companies

Strive urges MSCI to ‘let the market decide’ on Bi...

4 months ago 49

US prosecutors push for 12-year prison sentence for Terraform co-founder Do Kwon’s role in $40 billion collapse

US prosecutors push for 12-year prison sentence fo...

4 months ago 63

Turkey’s Paribu to buy CoinMENA in deal worth up to $240 million, adding Dubai and Bahrain licenses

Turkey’s Paribu to buy CoinMENA in deal worth up t...

4 months ago 47

‘I’m not betting on a markup this month’: Lawyer outlines three issues still holding up the crypto market structure bill

‘I’m not betting on a markup this month’: Lawyer o...

4 months ago 63

Crypto sleuth ZachXBT claims British threat actor tied to $243 million Genesis creditor theft ‘likely arrested’

Crypto sleuth ZachXBT claims British threat actor ...

4 months ago 51

International operation busts crypto fraud network that laundered more than $815 million

International operation busts crypto fraud network...

4 months ago 45

Italy warns crypto firms to meet year-end MiCA deadline or shut down

Italy warns crypto firms to meet year-end MiCA dea...

4 months ago 54

Spot bitcoin ETFs see $195 million exit, largest daily outflow in 2 weeks

Spot bitcoin ETFs see $195 million exit, largest d...

4 months ago 64