Market Wrap: Stocks Rally on Possible Stimulus but Bitcoin Is Flat at $9.5K
Equities are winning while bitcoin traders experience a dip in crypto volumes.
Equities are winning while bitcoin traders experience a dip in crypto volumes.
A co-founder of the celebrity-backed Centra Tech crypto scam has pleaded guilty to his role in the $25 million fraudulent ICO.
Today's stablecoin market mirrors the “wildcat banking” era of the mid-1800s, when banks printed their own dollars. Like then, federal intervention is likely.
It’s costing more to use Ethereum and that may be because more users are flocking to the platform than ever before, according to one key on-chain metric.
The Bank of Canada is preparing to design its own central bank digital currency (CDBC), detailing its plans in a new job posting.
Miners now face the fourth-most difficult two-week mining period in Bitcoin's history, even though it's only been a little over a month since the halving.
Canaan Creative's stock is at the lowest price since going public while Revolut is simultaneously ceding ownership of and exerting control over client's crypto holdings.
With their economy crumbling from hyperinflation, Venezuelans are finding new workarounds to get hold of digital dollars.
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Ethereum development house ConsenSys is being backed by heavy hitters like Binance and Huobi to test its new “staking-as-a-service” offering.
BlockFi is adding a former Bakkt and Microsoft employee to their lineup to take charge of the firm's security.
The project plans to use $2.1 million worth of tokens to incentivize development on its lightweight blockchain.
A fresh stimulus "bazooka" from the Fed Reserve and the U.S. government lifted prices for both stocks and bitcoin.
Central bank stimulus – negative interest rates or asset purchases – are just two sides of the same coin that both strengthen the case for bitcoin.
Tokensoft has partnered with New York-based Signature Bank in a bid to make security tokens click for real estate investors.
Fireblocks has teamed up with Chainalysis to help flag high-risk transactions passing through its platform.
The new debit card enables U.S. customers to spend their crypto holdings as fiat currency.
Capital One believes its patented artificial intelligence system can better assess whether crypto-related news and data are more reliable than humans for tradings, according to its patent filing.
Shares of Canaan Creative, one of the few publicly traded crypto miner manufacturers, fell below $2 Monday, their lowest after going public last year.
The case, which turns on how to interpret the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, could set precedents for crypto in the years ahead.
SIMBA Chain, a blockchain-as-a-service company, has two years and $1.5 million to further build out its supply chain logistics platform for the United States Air Force.
Roller-coaster daily trading for bitcoin Monday isn't convincing traders a larger crypto bull market is in the cards.
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CME Group’s bitcoin options market grew tenfold within a month and recorded six consecutive all-time highs for open interest so far this month.
A majority of bitcoins haven’t moved in at least a year, according to on-chain data, signaling investor confidence amid macroeconomic uncertainty.
UK fintech bank Revolut will give its customers legal ownership over their cryptocurrencies next month, but will limit how they can spend those coins.
Nexus Mutual, an alternative insurance provider for a variety of Ethereum-based DeFi protocols, has seen its risk pool double over the past 90 days to more than $4 million.
JPMorgan bond analysts think bitcoin has passed its first stress test while South Korea's central bank is continuing to research CBDCs.
Mining pool Ethermine said it would never freeze transaction fees again.