Month: January 2025

Robinhood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD) launched 2025 with a strategic customer engagement initiative, distributing $2.5 million worth of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) to existing users during New Year’s Eve, attracting active users to its platform during the holiday. What Happened: The company’s CEO Vlad Tenev emphasized the...

Crypto majors zoomed higher in the past 24 hours as the market entered a widely expected bullish year, with bitcoin (BTC) inching above $95,000 to shake off losses from last week. A CoinDesk analysis from Tuesday flagged unusually high trading volumes for XRP stemming from South Korean exchanges, which...

Anthony Sassano, an independent Ethereum educator, angel investor, advisor, and founder of The Daily Gwei, shared his Ethereum predictions for 2025 via X, outlining a series of significant milestones and advancements he expects to unfold this year. Ethereum Predictions 2025 Ethereum will celebrate its 10th birthday this year and...

Mysterious personality Shytoshi Kusama clarified in a podcast that aired Tuesday that not he but Ryoshi is the founder of the Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) ecosystem. What happened: In the first episode of a 44-part podcast series, Kusama said he joined Shiba Inu like any other member of the...

Eligible users of Jupiter and Sonic — both in the Solana ecosystem — will receive airdrops in the coming weeks....

Traders are no longer chasing upside in Nasdaq-listed MicroStrategy (MSTR), a leveraged play on bitcoin (BTC), signaling a cautious shift in market sentiment. MSTR’s 250-day put-call skew, which shows the difference in implied volatility between puts (options to sell) and calls (options to buy), has bounced to zero from...

As Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) trades near $95,000, PayPal Holdings Inc. co-founder Peter Thiel‘s framework for identifying market bubbles offers crypto investors a timely analytical tool, drawing parallels between historical manias and current market dynamics. What Happened: Speaking at the Yale Political Union in October Thiel outlined three key bubble...

Spanish banking giant Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) is deepening its foray into the crypto ecosystem. Garanti BBVA Kripto, a crypto custody platform operated by Garanti BBVA — Turkey’s fifth largest bank, which as of December 2023 was almost 86% owned by BBVA — will soon be providing crypto...

Dragonfly Capital’s managing partner believes AI agents will dominate throughout 2025 but warns there may be a “sudden reversal” in popularity by 2026....

“Kekius Maximus”-themed memecoin plunged sharply Wednesday after tech mogul Elon Musk reverted to his original avatar on social platform X What happened: Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)-based Kekius Maximus (KEKIUS) surged until Wednesday afternoon, peaking at $0.0057, only to crash 90% in 10 minutes after the Tesla and Space X CEO...