Latest News
Tesla's $1.5B Bitcoin purchase leaves treasury experts scratching heads
Some treasury experts are finding it difficult to understand why Tesla recently bought $1. 5 billion worth of Bitcoin — the best performing asset of the last decade.
South Africa learns a hard crypto lesson amid fast growing demand
South African authorities will be keeping a close eye on the cryptocurrency space in 2021 in the wake of major scams and booming markets.
French official wants to change how Europe regulates crypto and blockchain
According to one French official, crypto and blockchain projects should be supervised at the European level.
Binance quietly drops ‘multi-million’ Forbes defamation lawsuit
Binance Holdings has dropped its defamation lawsuit against Forbes regarding the publication of an article that alleged the exchange purposely sought to evade U. S. regulators.
Stablecoin flows hint at $50K Bitcoin after Tesla pump liquidates $500M in BTC shorts
Around $500 million worth of positions were liquidated within hours as the Tesla news caused Bitcoin to spike over $46,000.
Hackers post racist and offensive messages to Blockfolio users
A breach of Blockfolio’s signal feed saw racist messages sent to some users of the crypto portfolio platform.
OKEx integrates .crypto domain-based payments from Unstoppable Domains
As more exchanges start to support the simplified address format, will error-prone text-string addresses become a thing of the past?.
Major Thai bank's venture arm sets up $50M fund to invest in blockchain, DeFi
Siam Commercial Bank, over a century old, doesn't fail to keep up with the times.
XRP risks losing top-5 crypto status as Polkadot, Cardano market caps hit $21B
A second usurping of XRP by Polkadot leaves it perilously close to exiting the top five cryptocurrencies by market cap.
Solana announces DeFi hackathon offering $200k in seed funding
Solana will host a DeFi hackathon offering a $200,000 prize pool and $200,000 in seed funding to aspiring developers.
Binance Labs backs Polkadot ecosystem with $2.4m investment in Plasm Network
Binance has mobilized nearly one-quarter of its Polkadot ecosystem fund to lead Plasm Network’s Series A funding round.
Bitcoin's Twitter-volume spikes to new all-time highs on Elon pump
Elon Musk has pushed Bitcoin’s social sentiment into new highs on Twitter.
ETH represented 80% of last week's institutional crypto inflows
Institutions were aggressively accumulating ETH in the lead up to the launch of CME futures, with Ether products representing 80% of last week’s institutional crypto inflows.
Bitcoin volatility almost returned to 'Black Thursday' levels in January
A report from Kraken has identified last month’s BTC volatility at levels not seen since the ‘Black Thursday’ crash of early 2020.
G7 to discuss CBDC and digital taxation this week
The G7 will begin its Feb. 12 meeting on the subject of central bank digital currencies, before moving to digital taxation and accelerating global debt.
Bitcoin price hits $46,794 as altcoins, stocks rally to new highs
Bitcoin price hit a new all-time high at $46,794 on the same day Tesla revealed its $1. 5 billion investment into BTC and stock markets rallied to new highs.
Rising Bitcoin futures funding rate signals traders expect $50,000 BTC
Bitcoin perpetual futures buyers are paying a 5. 4% weekly funding rate to keep their positions open, but is this sustainable?.