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By James Van Straten (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) With just over a week to go until the end of March, the first quarter has been disappointing, particularly in terms of price action rather than narrative for the crypto industry. Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped 10%, its worst first-quarter...

Just when it appeared that the yen scare could be easing, Japan has reported an uptick in core inflation. Data released early Friday showed Japan’s core inflation, which stripes out prices for fresh food, rose 3% year-on-year in February, moderating from January’s 3.2% but beating the consensus forecast for...

Speculative appetite is vanishing from the crypto markets, as investors are looking for safer digital asset investments following the recent wave of memecoin scams and macroeconomic uncertainty. Bitcoin’s hot supply metric, which measures the Bitcoin (BTC) aged one week or less, is down over 50%, from 5.9% at the...

The world is evolving, and how we use money is changing accordingly. Some cities are embracing the use of blockchain technology as the destabilizing impacts of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, are hitting their economies hard. With supporting decentralized systems, digital […] The post Crypto-Friendly Cities: Where Bitcoin and Blockchain...

The adoption of stablecoin will directly correspond to Europe’s willingness to expand and strengthen the euro’s role in global payments...

Since bitcoin (BTC) hit its all-time high (ATH) of $109,000 in mid-January, the leading cryptocurrency has plummeted by roughly 30%. This decline has extended beyond the asset’s price to the network’s open interest. According to data analyzed by the market intelligence platform Glassnode, Bitcoin Futures open interest is seeing...

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has charted a diametrically opposite trajectory when compared to its older sibling, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), over the past year. Consider this. Bitcoin has jumped 32% in a year, reaching an all-time high of $109,000. Its share in the overall cryptocurrency...

In response to the rising influence of U.S. dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies, a Chinese Communist Party-backed publication called on China to accelerate its stablecoin development and expand the international currency status of the Chinese Yuan. What Happened: An op-ed published in Study Times highlighted the increasing role of dollar-pegged stablecoins like...

The Bybit hack on February 21st has been described as the biggest crypto breach in history. According to the authorities’ final analysis, the popular crypto exchange lost over $1.4 billion in digital assets, primarily Ether. Hours after the successful hacking, it was also revealed that North Korea’s Lazarus Group...

Binance has launched a ‘Vote to Delist’ feature enabling verified users to delist tokens from its monitoring zone list. Starting today, March 21, 2025, Binance has introduced a “Vote to Delist” feature, an initiative that would allow its community members…...