Month: January 2025

Several marketplaces hawking Donald Trump-branded merchandise, including GetTrumpWatches.com, GetTrumpFragrances.com, and GetTrumpSneakers.com, have started accepting the Trump memecoin as a payment method alongside credit cards and bitcoin (BTC). Payments options now include TRUMP and will be processed by Solana Pay, a decentralized payment system that allows users to send money...

In a livestream broadcast on January 29, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson delivered a comprehensive update on the Lace wallet’s evolving feature set, highlighting faster release cycles, upcoming Firefox support, and imminent Bitcoin integration. Describing January as “one hell of a month,” Hoskinson spoke candidly about his hands-on approach to...

Wash trading on Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Coinbase’s Base hit an estimated $2.57 billion in 2024, according to analysts at Chainalysis. Nearly 5% of all tokens launched across various networks in 2024 year had patterns similar to pump-and-dump schemes, blockchain…...

El Salvador has amended its Bitcoin regulations as a part of a deal with the International Monetary Fund. According to Reuters, El Salvador Congress has approved the reforms within minutes of receiving them from President Nayib Bukele, aligning the country’s…...

Polymarket only sees a 16% chance that the Donald Trump will order the creation of a strategic bitcoin (BTC) reserve in the first 100 days of its administration, despite assurances from crypto czar David Sacks that there’s an effort underway to explore the idea. “President Trump has asked us...

Inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs remain weak for the second consecutive day as the Federal Open Market Committee’s decision yesterday to keep interest rates unchanged weighs on investor sentiment. According to data from SoSoValue, the 12 spot Bitcoin ETFs…...

“We are not bulled up enough about Ethereum,” said former UBS bond trader and Etherealize founder Vivek Raman on Jan. 29. It has been more than a week since Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the “entire Ethereum ecosystem has been reborn,” he added, referring to the recent leadership shakeup at...

Spanish authorities are crediting the T3 Financial Crime Unit, a consortium made up of Tron, Tether, and TRM Labs, for helping take down a multinational European financial crime syndicate. According to Spain’s Guardia Civil, the crime syndicate operated across multiple European jurisdictions, providing cash-to-crypto laundering services for criminal enterprises....

NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Report with market evolution powered by AI – The global cryptocurrency market  size is estimated to grow by USD 39.75 billion from 2025-2029, according to Technavio. The market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of  16.7%  during the forecast period. Rising investment in...

The SEC has acknowledged Canary Capital’s Litecoin ETF filing. This could lead to the first altcoin ETF outside of Bitcoin and Ether being approved in 2025....