The bank lowered its base-case forecast for bitcoin to $82,000 from $112,000 and cut its ether target to $2,240 from $3,175. It now assumes no net ETF inflows over the next year, abandoning an earlier expectation that r…
With the end of MiCA’s transitional period fast approaching, the European Union is finally cracking down on unlicensed crypto exchanges in an effort to purge the continent’s spot markets of rogue operators and protect E…
World, the mysterious Solana project that garnered millions of views on X with little more than a glowing globe, cryptic posts and the tagline “Trade Everything,” is now live as a fully onchain prediction market inside …
Investment bank Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Morpho, calling the lending protocol a dual-play on decentralized finance (DeFi) that combines a lending market with infrastructure for onchain banks and asse…
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The European Union's crypto market entered a new era on Wednesday as its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation came into full effect, meaning crypto firms serving customers across the 27-nation bloc are required to…
Ether (ETH) is at $1,580, having also experienced a slight relief bounce since 01:00 UTC.
Aave, one of the largest decentralized lending protocols by locked value, recorded its strongest day of new-wallet creation in almost five years on June 30, a sign of fresh interest in the AAVE token even as the wider c…
Ark Invest has a tendency to load up on shares in cryptocurrency companies when their prices are depressed, and June was no exception.
Anthropic is restoring access to its two most advanced AI models after the U.S. government lifted the export controls that forced it to pull them last month.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $4.5 billion in net outflows in June, their worst month since launching in January 2024, per SoSoValue data.
Polish crypto firms are being forced to seek licenses abroad or risk shutting down after President Karol Nawrocki refused to sign legislation giving the country’s financial regulator authority to issue licenses under th…
XRP is still pinned near $1, but the selling pressure is no longer coming from the same crowded leverage that drove the earlier decline. The token slipped 1% over the session, then bounced from support as open interest …
The June candlestick, a charting tool summarizing entire month's price action into a single visual, looks like a solid red brick with virtually no wicks, a clear sign of complete and "uninterrupted" bear dominance throu…
Taiwan has taken a major step forward in overseeing its digital asset sector by enacting comprehensive new regulations for cryptocurrency operations.
The U.S. Commerce Department would have more authority to shield domestic artificial intelligence technology from the supply chains of foreign adversaries in a bill introduced Tuesday by two Republican senators who've b…
President Donald Trump earned more than $1 billion from crypto sales and royalties last year while living in the White House and pursuing aggressively pro-crypto policies in his administration.
Ramp, a financial operations platform, said companies making the largest investments in artificial intelligence are expanding their workforces rather than shrinking them, according to a new study that challenges the nar…
The team behind one of Hyperliquid's highest-profile private-company trading projects has found a new home.
Circle shares (CRCL) cratered on Tuesday after the new Open USD stablecoin network rattled investors, but analysts say it's too early to conclude the consortium poses a serious threat to USDC.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is reexamining how it approaches novel exchange-traded funds, including those focused on crypto, and is inviting public input on its automated system to approve them.
A U.S. judge sentenced Chinese businessman Miles Guo, the billionaire behind the fraudulent crypto venture Himalaya Coin, to 30 years in prison, long after a trial jury found the well-connected defendant was guilty of s…
MetaMask has launched a new self-custodial account that combines stablecoin yield, payments and trading in a single product, as wallet providers increasingly compete to become broader financial platforms rather than sim…