Tag: Crypto

The Russian government has announced a six-year ban on cryptocurrency mining in ten regions, effective Jan. 1, 2025, citing concerns over excessive energy consumption. The restrictions, set to last until March 15, 2031, will apply to both individual and pool mining operations, Tass reported. The ban targets Dagestan, Ingushetia,...

Will your ship arrive in 2025? Time to call up new meme coins that can do the work for you in the new year.  If ever there was a year of meme coins, 2024 has been it, and the momentum could continue well into 2025.  Meme coins have outperformed...

The small fish may be reacting to market-wide selling pressure, but institutional crypto investors have adopted a different stance, pouring hundreds of millions into digital asset investment vehicles last week.  According to a CoinShares report, digital asset investment products saw inflows totaling $308M, masking December 19’s $576M outflows (the...

From failed memecoin stunts and attempted teenage rug pulls on Pump.fun to fake FBI tokens, 2024 didn’t disappoint....

Crypto derivatives exchange Deribit is building on the success of its recent addition, Pax Gold, as it explores expanding into asset-backed crypto products. Within its first week, PAXG trading on Deribit exceeded $250 million in notional value, signaling strong interest in gold-backed tokens among traders, according to company executives....

Who would have thought that a gang of blue birds could be so profitable? The new meme coin Flockerz ($FLOCK), on presale for another 29 days, has just hit $7.7M in token sales. Proving that it has some serious momentum behind it as it enters the final stretch. So...

Sharp deviations have been witnessed in the exchange-traded funds tracking Michael Saylor‘s MicroStrategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR), likely stemming from the exposure to its volatile swaps and options. What Happened: The T-Rex 2X Long MSTR Daily Target ETF (BATS:MSTU) launched on Sept. 18, 2024, and Defiance Daily Target 2x Long MSTR...

Shiba Inu (SHIB), one of the most talked-about meme coins in the cryptocurrency space, has seen a notable surge in whale activity in the past 24 hours. Particularly, data from on-chain analytics platform IntoTheBlock reveals a 265% increase in whale transactions within the past 24 hours. Interestingly, this surge...

According to Cyvers, the 40% yearly increase was mainly driven by growing access control vulnerabilities amid centralized exchanges and cryptocurrency custodians....

Leading Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas said Monday that Blackrock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (NASDAQ:IBIT) could surpass SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) to become the world’s top exchange-traded fund, but the process could take a long time. What Happened: Balchunas, who has over a decade of expertise analyzing ETFs, responded...