Gemini, the crypto exchange run by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, has boosted the price range for its planned Friday IPO, the company said in an updated S1 filing on Tuesday. The firm now expects to sell 16.67 million shares between $24 and $26 each in the public offering versus the previous range of $17-$19. At […]
Bitcoin BTC$112,334.84 hovered around $111,500 on Monday, keeping a tight range as traders weigh macro catalysts for cues on positioning. Ether (ETH) traded near $4,312, XRP XRP$2.9657 held $2.96, BNB (BNB) at $880, and Solana’s SOL (SOL) climbed to $218. Dogecoin DOGE$0.2406 extended its 11.6% weekly gain to 24 cents, outpacing most major cryptocurrencies as […]
Grayscale filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday for three crypto exchange-traded funds, expanding its roster of potential offerings as issuers jockey for regulatory approval. The asset manager submitted an S-1 registration for a Litecoin LTC$111.76 ETF, a move that follows its earlier bid to convert the Grayscale Litecoin Trust […]
Nebius Group (NBIS) shares soared 47% in pre-market trading after the company said it signed an agreement to supply Microsoft (MSFT) with graphic processing units (GPUs) in a deal Reuters valued at $17.4 billion over five years. The contract is worth more than the Amsterdam-based company’s entire market capitalization, currently $15.29 billion. According to Reuters, […]
Charles Guillemet, chief technology officer at hardware wallet maker Ledger, warned on X on Monday that a large-scale supply chain attack is underway after the compromise of a reputable developer’s Node Package Manager (NPM) account. According to Guillemet, the malicious code — already pushed into packages with over 1 billion downloads — is designed to […]
Backpack Exchange, a global cryptocurrency trading platform, said Monday that its European division, Backpack EU, is officially live. Operating out of Cyprus and licensed under the European Union’s MiFID II framework, the exchange is positioning itself as one of the first fully regulated venues in Europe to offer crypto derivatives, starting with perpetual futures. “As […]
Christian Catalini, co-creator of Facebook’s Libra project, warned on Friday that Stripe’s Tempo and Circle’s Arc could succeed commercially but at the cost of crypto’s decentralization ideal. Launched in 2019, Libra was Meta’s bold bid to create a global digital currency backed by a basket of stable assets. The project promised to make payments as […]
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest stepped up its bets on crypto-related equities Friday, buying more than $23.5 million in BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) and crypto exchange Bullish, the parent company of CoinDesk, across three of its actively managed ETFs. Trade disclosures show the ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) and ARK Fintech […]
Spot ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) logged their fifth straight day of outflows this week, shedding $952 million in total and over $787 million in the four-day week alone. The withdrawals followed a record-setting August when spot ether ETFs pulled in $3.87 billion even as bitcoin ETFs saw $751 million in net outflows, according to SoSoValue […]
World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is defending its decision to freeze hundreds of wallets, including Tron found Justin Sun’s, saying the move was meant to protect users from phishing-related compromises, not to stifle normal trading. “WLFI only intervenes to protect users, never to silence normal activity,” the project wrote on X. We’ve heard community concerns about […]
The U.S. Senate’s work on the crypto industry’s top policy priority — a bill to establish the regulatory workings of crypto markets in the U.S. — advanced further on Friday with the private circulation of a new draft bill that further outlines protections for crypto developers and bankruptcy guidelines for some digital asset issuers. Despite […]
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price recovery has gathered traction in the lead up to Friday’s U.S. jobs report. The leading cryptocurrency by market value rose to $113,000, its highest level since Aug. 28, and recorded its first higher high since the mid August all time peak of $124,000, according to CoinDesk data. In technical terms, a higher […]