Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Strategy added 267 Bitcoin to its holdings as it bought back 1.94 million STRC shares and boosted its preferred stock buyback program to $3 billion.Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holder, continued buy...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin saw its market cap decrease more than $400 million over two weeks of large redemptions on Ethereum and BNB Chain.World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin has shed over $400 million in market capitalization o...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
France’s National Assembly adopted a crypto tax amendment targeting certain stablecoin swaps, while separate proposals on exit taxes and self-custodial wallet reporting remain under consideration.Update, Oct. 20, 7:48 am UTC: This article has been up...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Analysts expect Bitcoin to retest $80,000 support again as stock markets attempt to recover last week’s losses.
Bitcoin (BTC) starts the third week of October at $82,000 as crypto and stock markets begin a tentative rebound.Key points:A lighter week...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
ESMA’s latest MiCA register update includes BingX, YouHodler and Banco Santander’s Openbank, bringing the total to 375 unique CASPs.[Update 9:00 UTC, Oct. 20 - Updates with ESMA’s explanation of a technical issue that temporarily affected Penning Fin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
JPMorgan is expanding its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum, allowing institutional clients to make payments and settle tokenized asset transactions.Update (Oct. 20, 4:35 am UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from a JPMorgan spo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
JPMorgan is reportedly expanding its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum, allowing institutional clients to make payments and settle tokenized asset transactions.JPMorgan Chase, the world’s biggest bank by market capitalization, is expanding its JPM C...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
US spot Ether ETFs recorded around $955 million in October net outflows so far, while Bitcoin funds extended their weekly withdrawal streak to two weeks.US spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $549 million in net outflows last week...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Sam Altman-backed World has rolled out biometric verification badges for Zoom enterprise users, aiming to combat AI deepfake impersonation and fraud.Zoom enterprise customers will now be able to see “proof of human” badges to verify that people appea...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Finance officials are reportedly set to meet major crypto exchanges on Tuesday, days after a lawmaker introduced legislation that could push the tax’s start date back two years.South Korea’s senior finance officials are reportedly set to meet crypto...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Qubic says 87.1% of the stolen funds remain onchain and the rest were frozen at crypto exchange MEXC, as network validators prepare to vote on a recovery plan.Layer-1 blockchain network Qubic halted operations Sunday after an attacker reportedly expl...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
HEX founder Richard Heart detained in early morning raid in Istanbul, Starknet plunges almost 50% as it votes to become an L1, and Bitwise says all signs point to Crypto Spring.The HEX market cap fell from $561 million to $315 million this week after...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The prediction market industry enables people to bet on US elections and sporting events.Most Americans polled by Reuters/Ipsos are opposed to betting on US elections and other government actions.The prediction market industry, led by Polymarket and...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Cysic said the incident was limited to bridge message processing and minting and did not affect the mainnet or other operational systems.Cysic Foundation is investigating an unauthorized issuance on BNB Smart Chain and said the mint size alone does n...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Police alleged the suspect was involved in cryptocurrency and foreign-currency exchanges for criminal groups across more than 133 accounts.Thai police arrested a 37-year-old Chinese man wanted by authorities in China for alleged involvement in an int...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The round brings AIsa’s total funding to more than $9 million.AIsa said it had completed its seed extension round, with Tether Capital and HIVEN joining as strategic investors.The round brings total funding raised by the enterprise agentic AI infrast...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Solana has had no reported mainnet outages in two years, but concentrations in stake, hosting and client software should be monitored, according to a report.Solana has made significant progress in terms of network health across resilience, economic s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Markets in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East see increasing demand for stablecoins. Stablecoin issuer Circle is seeking to enter about 40 developing markets, according to the company’s CEO and chairman, Jeremy Allaire.“We’re...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
“The digital euro will further stimulate innovation and competition in retail payments,” according to the ECB president. European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said September’s 3.8% euro-area inflation rate largely reflected high energy co...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
“The digital euro will further stimulate innovation and competition in retail payments,” according to the ECB president. European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said September’s 3.8% euro area inflation rate largely reflected high energy co...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitget says user funds are safe and exchange will continue to operate during the change.Bitget said it will discontinue services for some crypto users in what the exchange described as a “one-off exercise.”The cryptocurrency exchange said in a post o...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
At least two industry-aligned PACs have poured more than $52 million into opposing Sherrod Brown’s return to the Senate.Affiliates of the Fairshake political action committee (PAC), largely funded by Coinbase and Ripple Labs, have increased their ini...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Borderless.xyz data shows major savings on cross-border business payments, with stablecoin transfers also settling faster than traditional international bank wires.
Stablecoin-funded remittances continue to offer substantial cost savings over traditi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Tokenized stocks are drawing trading activity beyond Wall Street hours, while Bitcoin miners confront costly AI expansion and new accounting rules could benefit stablecoins.Tokenization is beginning to reshape traditional financial markets, with stoc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin held above $80,000 as South Korean tech stocks recovered from a sell-off and traders lowered their expectations for a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike.Bitcoin (BTC) traded near $82,000 around Friday’s Wall Street open as crypto markets stab...