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Spot Bitcoin ETFs hurdle its biggest legal roadblock to date after the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) clarified that it’s no longer taking a role in clearing BTC ETF options. In a staff advisory dated November 15th, the CFTC, through its Division of Clearing and Risk, announced that...

Polter Finance has suffered a $12 million flash loan hack, with the platform investigating stolen funds linked to Binance wallets and offering impunity to the attacker....

Global investment banks revealed significant positions held in cryptocurrency-related exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) stock MicroStrategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR), according to their latest 13F filings with the SEC. JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase & Co., the world’s largest bank by market capitalization, made sizable investments in Bitcoin and Ethereum...

Sławomir Mentzen, chairman of the Polish “New Hope” party and a contender in the upcoming presidential election, announced his plans for establishing a strategic Bitcoin reserve in Poland during a discourse on X. The initiative underscores Mentzen’s vested interest in Bitcoin, evidenced by his personal investment of 33.7 BTC,...

Gita Gopinath, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, expressed concern over the increasing energy consumption and carbon footprint of cryptocurrency mining and AI data centers, expected to worsen in the next few years. What Happened: In an X post on Sunday, Gopinath stated, citing IMF data, that...

Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. didn’t mince words when he praised Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as a solution to the U.S. national debt and an inflation hedge. What Happened: Kennedy recently took to X to express his unwavering support for the leading cryptocurrency. “Bitcoin is the currency of...

Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest, endorsed the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Elon Musk‘s leadership while advocating for stricter government spending controls in a series of posts on X on Sunday. What Happened: “Government spending is taxation,” Wood said, citing her early economics education with...

A meme coin inspired by the “Peanut,” the squirrel, maintained its upward march Sunday as UFC legend Jim Miller demanded justice for the late animal. What happened: Peanut the Squirrel (PNUT) jumped over 11% to become the market’s fourth-best-performing cryptocurrency in the last 24 hours.  The coin’s trading volume...

Leading cryptocurrencies dipped on Sunday as investors reduced their risk-taking appetite amid the Federal Reserve’s cautious stance on rate cuts. Cryptocurrency Gains +/- Price (Recorded at 7:45 p.m. ET) Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) -0.76% $90,085.28 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)                -0.88% $3,119.31 Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE)           -1.12% $0.3621 What Happened: Bitcoin rose above...

Five of the top 10 crypto protocols by fee earnings in the last 24 hours were on Solana. ...