Month: July 2025

There has been a notable uptick in crypto crowd chatter following the Senate’s passage of US President Donald Trump’s sweeping “One Big Beautiful Bill,” with Vice President JD Vance breaking a 50-50 tie. Santiment reported a measurable increase in the social volume of the words “big,” “beautiful,” and “bill.”...

Crypto theft has hit a record in the first half of 2025. Over $2.1 billion vanished in at least 75 hacks and exploits. That total tops the previous H1 high set in 2022 by about 10% and almost matches every dollar stolen in all of 2024. Major Theft Figures...

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Stocks were mixed as trade deals and weak jobs data fueled expectations of a Fed interest rate cut....

First, it was gold and oil. Now, BounceBit is targeting stocks, ETFs, and bonds, all onchain, all DeFi-ready. If successful, this could be the blueprint for a fully tokenized global financial system. In an X post on July 1, BounceBit…...

Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk’s Tech & Protocols reporter. In this issue: Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum at Risk If Decentralization Is Just a Catchphrase Bitcoin Layer-2 Botanix Mainnet Debuts, Cuts Block Times to 5 Seconds...

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) is now generating more revenue than one of the asset manager’s most iconic products, the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV), according to Bloomberg data. Despite having just $52 billion in AUM — a fraction of IVV’s $624 billion in total assets — IBIT’s...

Ripple, the digital asset firm closely associated with the XRP Ledger network, has applied on Wednesday for a national banking license at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a spokesperson confirmed to CoinDesk. The license would allow the company expand its crypto services and operate across...

Polkadot’s DOT surged 6% higher amid a rally in crypto markets, with strong volume supporting a decisive breakout through resistance at the $3.34 and $3.44 levels, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. The model showed the price found strong support at $3.25 during the 01:00 hour with above-average...

Open interest in bitcoin perpetual futures surged Wednesday by the most in four months as the leading cryptocurrency neared the $110,000 mark. Open interest in perpetual futures listed on offshore exchanges rose by nearly 10% to $26.91 billion, the highest single-day increase since March 2, according to data source...