Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Crypto projects are spending hundreds of millions buying their own tokens. But are buybacks creating lasting value — or just making tokens look more valuable than they really are?As the industry matures and borrows more pages out of TradiFi’s playboo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Kalshi’s US web traffic climbed more than 1,500% in less than a year, while trading volume grew even faster and legal scrutiny of its sports contracts intensified.Major prediction market platform Kalshi has seen its US web traffic explode over the pa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Trezor said an additional 67,000 US users were affected by its shipping provider’s data breach, opening the path to potential phishing attacks and social engineering scams.The impact of hardware wallet provider Trezor’s data breach was larger than in...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
South Korea’s financial regulator introduced a three-phase roadmap for the issuance of tokenized assets, as the country prepares to adopt its first tokenized securities framework in February 2027.South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (SFC) intr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
AMC’s CEO criticized Robinhood’s tokenized stock offerings for being unregulated in the US and said he will request an investigation from an external securities counsel.Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Entertainment Holdings, criticized Robinhood’s tokenize...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
US Bitcoin ETFs drew $730.9 million on Thursday as Bitcoin reclaimed $80,000, though CryptoQuant flagged weak fresh demand and a key $83,000 test.US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) notched their biggest inflows in nearly eight months...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
The IMF attributed Bitcoin added since June 2025 to private donations, addressing questions raised after El Salvador reported a $100 million acquisition.El Salvador used no public resources to accumulate Bitcoin after the first review of its Internat...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
The agreement includes parallel investigations and information sharing, with US and UK authorities planning a private-sector disruption operation in London in October.The United States and United Kingdom have formed a joint law enforcement alliance t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
Thai businessmen sue Tether over $42M frozen USDT tied to pig butchering scam, Aussie crypto firms face big fines unless they meet licensing deadline.THAILANDTwo Thai businessmen have sued stablecoin issuer Tether in a New York district court, claimi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
Thai businessmen sue Tether over $42M frozen USDT tied to pig butchering scam, Aussie crypto firms face big fines unless they meet licensing deadline.THAILANDTwo Thai businessmen have sued stablecoin issuer Tether in a New York district court, claimi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
The CFTC’s lawyers called the lawsuit “much ado about nothing,“ claiming that the CME Group lacked standing to file and argued against its claims over crypto perpetual futures.The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a motion to d...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
Mantle has added Paxos-issued USDG as a natively minted stablecoin while joining the network’s reward-sharing structure.Paxos-issued stablecoin USDG has launched natively on Mantle, with the Ethereum layer-2 network joining the Global Dollar Network...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
Kalshi previously said it had been placed in an “impossible position” after federal authorities directed the company to ignore a Michigan restraining order issued in June.Update (Sept. 3, 9:20 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a state...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
Bitcoin rallied 5% to reclaim $80,000 as the US dollar weakened amid a suspected Bank of Japan currency intervention, though analysts remain split on the impact.Bitcoin (BTC) rallied 5% during US trading hours, reaching $81,000.& Key points:&...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
The integration lets Bybit users spend digital assets directly from their exchange balances across Mesh-powered platforms.Bybit Pay, the payments arm of crypto exchange Bybit, has integrated with crypto payments infrastructure provider Mesh, allowing...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
The UK political party and its leader, Nigel Farage, have accepted contributions from figures tied to the crypto industry, raising questions about potential influence on policies.Records from the UK’s Electoral Commission showed that BitMEX co-founde...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
The deal will bring SoFiUSD to Kraken, connect Payward to SoFi’s 24/7 dollar settlement network and give SoFi access to digital asset liquidity through Kraken Prime.Kraken parent Payward has partnered with SoFi in a deal that will bring SoFiUSD to Kr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
Crypto recovery specialists reveal how lost wallets, passwords and seed phrases can sometimes be recovered — but that’s of no help if the money was never there in the first place.When a client named Rusty contacted crypto recovery specialist Chris Br...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
VARA and Securitize signed an MoU to foster more tokenization innovation in Dubai and explore how tokenized financial innovation should be regulated in the region.Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) and BlackRock-backed tokenization pl...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, gaining a platform used by more than 18 million developers to share and deploy AI models.Update (Sept. 3, 1:30 PM UTC): This article was updated to clarify details of the acquisition.Nvidia has ag...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
Pencil Finance said that its first-of-a-kind loan offered financing to 6,600 students in Southeast Asia who were underserved by traditional lenders.Student loan real-world asset (RWA) protocol Pencil Finance completed a $1 million onchain student loa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 days ago
Standard Chartered said it is the first major global bank to offer institutional access to spot Bitcoin and Ether trading in the UAE region.London-headquartered multinational bank Standard Chartered has launched spot Bitcoin and Ether trading for ins...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 6 days ago
The third-wave Coldcard exploiter moved about 10% of stolen funds through THORChain as researchers traced the assets to a new Ethereum address.A hacker linked to the third wave of Coldcard wallet thefts has started swapping stolen Bitcoin for Ether t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 6 days ago
Kalshi reportedly plans to file for approval of a WTI crude oil perpetual futures contract that would trade around the clock five days a week without an expiration date.Prediction market operator Kalshi will reportedly seek regulatory approval for a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 6 days ago
ASIC has recorded more than 45 digital asset-related license applications as its temporary enforcement relief approaches Sept. 30 expiration.Australian crypto companies relying on temporary regulatory relief have until Sept. 30 to apply for a financi...