Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 hours ago
Exporters can now fund imports with overseas earnings without first selling their foreign currency at official rates, the Financial Times reported.Iran’s central bank has reportedly eased foreign currency controls to encourage businesses to bring ove...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 hours ago
The proposed Builders Bank would offer federally supervised digital asset custody but would not accept deposits or issue loans.Jack Dorsey’s payments company Block seeks to establish a federally regulated trust bank to provide custody services for Bi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 hours ago
Gemini’s local entity is authorized to provide digital payment token and cross-border money transfer services without standard transaction-volume limits.Crypto exchange Gemini has received a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license from the Monetary A...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 6 hours ago
US prosecutors said Lam organized an international network that targeted cryptocurrency holders through social engineering and home break-ins.Singaporean national Malone Lam pleaded guilty to participating in a racketeering conspiracy that used socia...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 12 hours ago
One of the first towns in the US to ban Bitcoin mining for 18 months is considering another temporary moratorium extending to data centers and other crypto mining operations.The town of Plattsburgh in New York state held a public hearing to discuss a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 13 hours ago
Former Franklin Templeton digital asset executive Christopher Jensen will lead StablecoinX, the largest corporate holder of Ethena’s ENA token.StablecoinX appointed former Franklin Templeton digital asset executive Christopher Jensen as CEO, putting...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 15 hours ago
Bybit added USDT-settled perpetuals tracking EUR/USD, GBP/USD and USD/JPY, with 24/7 trading and leverage of up to 100x.Dubai-based crypto exchange Bybit has launched USDT-settled perpetual contracts tracking three major foreign currency pairs, addin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 17 hours ago
Robinhood will route event contracts through OG.com’s CFTC-regulated infrastructure as it expands its prediction markets business.Robinhood has taken equity stakes in Crypto.com and its newly spun-off prediction market platform OG.com as part of a mu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 18 hours ago
Visa is combining VisaNet settlement data with blockchain lending as stablecoin payment volume on its network jumps nearly 200% year over year. Payment giant Visa is connecting its settlement network with onchain lending, giving stablecoin-linked car...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 18 hours ago
Bitcoin fell with US stocks on the opening of Tuesday’s Wall Street trading session as analysis warns that BTC price support at $78,300 must hold.Bitcoin (BTC) dipped below $78,000 at Tuesday’s Wall Street open as risk assets fell on renewed Middle E...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 20 hours ago
While Bitmine’s completed 97% of its goal to acquire 5% of Ether’s supply, Tom Lee’s team faces a $5.1 billion unrealized loss on its main treasury asset.Bitmine Immersion Technologies, the largest corporate Ether holder, announced another purchase o...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 21 hours ago
Bitcoin believers see it as an almost certain long-term investment, but retirement demands a different approach. How much crypto exposure is too much for your retirement account?You stack sats. You farm yield, and you’d rather sell your car than part...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 21 hours ago
Strategy repurchased $176 million worth of its STRC preferred stock and doubled the size of its digital securities repurchase program to $2 billion, while pausing on new Bitcoin buys. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 21 hours ago
Two suspects face a Wednesday hearing over four killings allegedly linked to a crypto wallet believed to hold millions of dollars in Bitcoin.Two suspects in the killing of four people in Mexico allegedly sought a cold wallet they believed held millio...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 23 hours ago
Tazapay processes $25 billion in annualized volume and offers payout rails across 100-plus markets, extending Circle’s USDC payments reach.[Update 13:30 UTC, Sept. 8: Adds the $400 million purchase price and stock payment terms disclosed in Circle’s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
Humo Digital will test HUMO payments with more than 20 merchants under a sandbox jointly overseen by NAPP and Uzbekistan’s central bank.Uzbekistan has launched a pilot to test payments with a som-pegged stablecoin backed by government securities.&...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
Ledger and Trezor said researchers have a responsibility to publish their findings if vendors fail to fix bugs within an agreed disclosure window.Hardware wallet makers Ledger and Trezor called for more responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilit...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
Growing demand for tokenized stock trading may drive the Robinhood chain’s annual fees to $160 million by 2028, predicted analysts from Bernstein.Trading platform Robinhood’s blockchain network is expected to generate as much as $160 million in annua...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
Unrealized gains by whale speculators hit their highest levels on record last week, per data going back to 2016.Bitcoin (BTC) whales have more reason to sell than at any time in Bitcoin’s recent history as their unrealized profits hit records.Key poi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
Cronos’s post-mortem put the Tectonic exploit’s affected borrowing at $120.4 million, with 7.6% transferred off-network before validators intervened.Layer-1 blockchain Cronos said $9.19 million left its blockchain before validators halted the network...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
Financial market operator SIX and payment app TWINT have joined numerous banks in the sandbox seeking to develop a Swiss franc-based stablecoin.Nine Swiss companies have begun sandbox tests of CHFD, a Swiss franc stablecoin, for programmable payments...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
AUSTRAC said its yearlong sweep included canceled, suspended and unrenewed registrations, while its action against GetCoins helped disrupt organized investment scams.Australia’s financial intelligence regulator said it canceled, suspended or refused...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
The actors returned 85% of the Bitcoin withdrawn from Liquid’s federation wallet following the security incident.Purported white-hat hackers returned 3,400 Bitcoin worth about $270 million to the Liquid Federation wallet after withdrawing roughly $32...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
Companies offering binary options for retail investors have been barred from selling, marketing and distributing products in the UK since 2019 following a directive from the FCA.The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reportedly has reached out to...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 day ago
Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade will center on FOCIL and Frame Transactions as developers weigh dozens of other proposed changes for inclusion.The Ethereum Foundation has identified two “must ship” proposals for the Hegotá upgrade, prioritizing censorship...
