Tag: Crypto

In 2025’s ETF frenzy, no one’s pulling in money quite like BlackRock’s iShares. Its Bitcoin fund has turned crypto curiosity into a multi-billion stampede. The iShares Bitcoin Trust (NASDAQ:IBIT), which debuted in 2024, has attracted a whopping $24 billion and counting this year so far, placing it among the...

Thumzup is deploying Dogecoin as a strategic rail, aiming to bypass traditional banking bottlenecks and facilitate near-instant cross-border payments to a burgeoning global network of content creators. In a press release dated Oct. 15, Thumzup Media Corporation announced it is…...

Ethereum is showing a strong chart structure as some market analysts suggest a possible price move to $7,000 by mid-2026. Meanwhile, the asset is holding key levels after a recent pullback, with trading activity reflecting a phase of consolidation. Analysts point to long-term patterns and investor behavior as reasons...

The digital asset market faced its largest-ever liquidation cascade on October 10, now being referred to as crypto’s Black Friday . Within 24 hours, over $19 billion in leveraged positions were wiped out, marking the single biggest deleveraging event in the industry’s history. The sell-off began late in the...

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple Labs, called out the Wall Street banking lobbyists who have sought to resist the movement of his company and other crypto firms into the banking sector and into the Federal Reserve’s so-called master accounts. The crypto sector “should be held to the same...

Indian telecom giant Reliance Jio is partnering with Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs to bring blockchain-based rewards to its more than 500 million customers. Jio, the country’s largest mobile network operator, plans to integrate Aptos’ layer-1 blockchain to distribute digital rewards through its telecom services. The move was announced...

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted conditional national bank status to Erebor Bank, a new tech-oriented bank seeking to rise into the gap left by the collapse of several such lenders in 2023, including Silicon Valley Bank. OCC chief Jonathan Gould said the Wednesday...

Friday was the largest liquidation event on a nominal basis in crypto history. The scale of deleveraging is best understood by looking at open interest (OI) — the total value of outstanding futures and perpetual contracts that have not yet been settled. Glassnode’s data shows before Friday’s sell-off, bitcoin...

Japan’s top financial authorities are pushing to tighten rules on cryptocurrency trading, with plans that would make buying or selling tokens on the basis of undisclosed information illegal. According to Nikkei and other reports, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) is discussing reclassifying some crypto assets under the Financial Instruments...

XRP price is struggling to reclaim the 200-day moving average, raising the probability of a potential rejection toward the $2 high time frame support if resistance continues to hold. After a volatile series of moves across the broader market, the…...