Tag: Crypto

Bitcoin BTC is back near $108,000, marking a full recovery from last week’s dip to six figures driven by Middle east tensions, as macro signals turn risk-on and crypto bulls regain technical footing. The market is now betting on a convergence of two trends: dovish Fed commentary and retail’s...

The Trump-affiliated World Liberty Foundation appears to be reversing course on a core promise of its crypto project — making its WLFI token transferrable after initially making it strictly non-transferable (and hence non-tradable). “You asked to make $WLFI transferable — we heard you,” the project’s official X account posted...

Metaplanet, the Japanese hotelier that has been scooping up bitcoin BTC, has become the fifth largest corporate holder of the largest cryptocurrency, racing past Elon Musk’s Tesla. The Tokyo-listed firm bought 1,234 BTC for $133 million at an average price of $107,877. The latest buy has taken Metaplanet’s bitcoin...

Sky Protocol’s decentralized finance network has launched a new institutional-grade credit protocol with a $1 billion investment into tokenized credit. Grove, a DeFi credit infrastructure developed as part of the Sky (SKY) ecosystem, was announced in a press release on…...

Crypto prediction market platform Kalshi has raised $185 million in a Series C round led by Paradigm, reaching a $2 billion post-money valuation. “People choose to work at Kalshi not because of the money we’ve raised, but because of our ambition: build the most important financial market on the...

Ripple’s backstory just got a little twist. According to a set of emails from 2014, early notes on what became Ripple go as far back as 2004. That’s four years before Satoshi Nakamoto put out the Bitcoin whitepaper. These emails, shared by XRP community figure SMOQE, feature comments from...

Aurora Mobile, a Nasdaq-listed technology firm based in China, has unveiled a new corporate strategy that includes investing a portion of its treasury into cryptocurrency assets. On Tuesday, the company announced that its board of directors had approved the allocation of up to 20% of its total cash and...

World Liberty Financial, the Trump-affiliated crypto firm behind the USD1 stablecoin, is preparing to release its first audit and launch a mobile app aimed at retail users. The update was shared by WLF co-founder Zak Folkman on June 25 in…...

Billionaire investor Tim Draper predicted Bitcoin’s (CRYPTO: BTC) complete dominance over the dollar within the next five years on Wednesday, driven by what he sees as unprecedented innovation on the network. What Happened: In an X post, Draper, a renowned venture capitalist and long-time Bitcoin advocate, highlighted the asset’s...

World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture backed by former U.S. President Donald Trump, is set to release a stablecoin audit and launch a new application. What Happened: The Trump family, which has a 75% claim on the venture’s net revenues, has been the subject of criticism due to potential...