Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights: Leap has launched an iOS beta of its tokenized stocks and onchain asset trading application, developed by Dialect and backed by Solana Labs. The platform operates as a limited early-access test, featuring constrained geographic availability and evolving service rules during its testing phase. The product aggregates multiple asset classes into one mobile interface, ...
Key Highlights: AI projections evaluate a $7 to $20 long-term valuation for XRP, hinging on institutional demand, ETF inflows, and network expansion. Ripple’s escrow holdings stand at roughly 31.1 billion XRP following regular unlocks, projecting full escrow depletion around July 2035 at current net distribution rates. Near-term technical indicators show XRP trading at $1.16, hovering ...
Key Highlights Early cryptocurrency investor Roger Ver resolved his long-standing criminal tax evasion case by entering into a nearly $50 million deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. Ver’s high-profile legal dispute stemmed from an April 2024 arrest in Spain regarding allegations that he failed to pay roughly $48 million in taxes related ...
Key Highlights XRP experienced $16.7 million in total liquidations on Friday, heavily driven by $16 million in wiped-out long positions. Trading volume plunged 44.7% as XRP slipped to $1.16, placing the critical $1.15 support line under immediate threat. A technical breakdown below $1.15 risks a cascade of nearly $1 million in additional liquidations, potentially exposing ...
Key Highlights The Canton Network’s low headline decentralized finance (DeFi) total value locked (TVL) stems directly from its underlying architectural focus on institutional privacy and enterprise settlement. Introduced in May 2023 by Digital Asset alongside major financial institutions like Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas, the network uses Canton Coin (CC) to incentivize verifiable network activity ...
Key Highlights: Binance founder CZ called for greater unity across the cryptocurrency industry amid discussions tracking how major exchange crises and security breaches directly depress native token valuations. Binance is actively recovering from an unprecedented $6.34 billion hack on Oct. 29 targeting its internal wallet signing infrastructure, with $2.85 billion intercepted and 98% of affected ...
Key Highlights A solo miner solved Bitcoin block number 974,930, capturing a total block reward of approximately 3.1427 BTC worth roughly $239,000. The success came just 6 hours and 50 minutes after an earlier block find, taking the combined gross payout for both blocks to around $476,000 prior to service fees. Operating through the Solo ...
Key Highlights: Peter Schiff warned that Bitcoin’s major downturn is still ahead, cautioning that “The Real Big Drop in Bitcoin Hasn’t Happened Yet.” Schiff argued that shifting political tides—including Republican midterm losses and a potential Democratic victory in 2028—could end pro-crypto policies and threaten the U.S. strategic Bitcoin reserve. Targeting Michael Saylor’s Strategy, Schiff claimed ...
Key Highlights: Stablecoin issuer Circle generated roughly $222 million through an agreement to sell 740 million $ARC tokens to investors led by a16z crypto. Circle revealed a 5% workforce reduction that incurred $9.1 million in third-quarter restructuring costs, primarily for severance and notice-period expenses. Full-year adjusted operating expense forecasts remain set between $570 million and ...
Key Highlights: Loopscale contained an exploit targeting its $SOL and $USDC Genesis Vaults that resulted in unauthorized extractions totaling over $930,000. The team confirmed that affected vaults have been made whole, ensuring that no user deposits incurred any financial loss. While vault access has been restored, withdrawals remain subject to standard liquidity availability ahead of ...
Key Highlights: Market breadth collapsed within a single month, as the share of Binance-listed altcoins trading below their 200-day moving average jumped from 10% in early October to roughly 70% by early November. Widespread macro headwinds—including central bank interest rate hikes, geopolitical strain, U.S. midterm election uncertainty, and a 14% drop in the Nasdaq—drove the ...
Key Highlights: A Paris court convicted Vitaliy K. and two accomplices over an illicit exploit involving the unauthorized minting and theft of 1 billion HLG tokens valued at approximately €12.5 million ($14 million). Judges dismissed the Holograph Foundation’s civil claim for token price decline damages, ruling that HLG had already plummeted prior to the crime ...