Month: April 2025

In an interview on BFM Business, Ripple’s Managing Director for the UK & Europe, Cassie Craddock, lifted the veil on how the blockchain company intends to weave the XRP Ledger into the fabric of prime brokerage. Speaking about Ripple’s $1.25 billion acquisition of London‑headquartered Hidden Road, Craddock confirmed that...

Publicly-listed Metaplanet announced fresh bitcoin (BTC) purchases on Monday as BTC went above $87,300, reversing last week’s loses. Metaplanet picked up 330 BTC bring its overall holdings to 4,855 BTC, worth over $420 million, based on current prices. This is the Japanese firm’s third bitcoin purchase this month, even...

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit’s CEO Ben Zhou said that 27.95% of the funds lost in the $1.4 billion exploit engineered by the North Korean Lazarus Group have gone dark or become untraceable. “Total hacked funds of USD 1.4bn around 500k ETH. 68.57% remain traceable, 27.59% have gone dark, 3.84% have...

Memecoins followed Bitcoin’s (CRYPTO: BTC) Sunday evening breakout, with Fartcoin again spearheading the sector-wide rally. What happened: The Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)-based cryptocurrency spiked 4.67% over the previous day, becoming the biggest gainer among the top ten meme coins by market capitalization. The silly-sounding coin has risen 111% in the...

Japanese investment firm Metaplanet has purchased 330 more Bitcoin, bringing its total holdings to 4,855 BTC. According to the company’s Apr. 21 disclosure, the latest acquisition was made at an average price of ¥12.18 million per Bitcoin (BTC), about $85,605,…...

Join Guy and Nic for another live crypto deep dive as they break down this week’s biggest market movers. From Bitcoin’s latest rally and ETF flows to Trump’s fiery comments about firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell, we unpack what it all means for investors. We’ll explore the growing stablecoin...

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The surge in gold and Bitcoin highlights growing investor concerns over economic uncertainty and potential shifts in monetary policy dynamics. The post Gold, Bitcoin surge after Trump says ‘he who has the gold makes the rules’ appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Noted investment adviser Gary Black drew attention Sunday to the rising odds of a recession in 2025 due to President Donald Trump’s tariff measures. What Happened: Black, managing partner at The Future Fund, highlighted the increasing likelihood of the U.S. slipping into recession this year on the decentralized betting platform, Polymarket. “Trump’s...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed replacing the Ethereum Virtual Machine with RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture, as the new foundation for Ethereum smart contracts. In a post shared on the Ethereum Magicians forum on Apr. 20, Buterin argued…...