T3 Financial Crime Unit, a crypto task force said it froze $300 million in tainted funds in its first year of operation, earning praise from international law enforcement and showing the stablecoin industry is capable of policing itself. Formed in late 2024 by stablecoin issuer Tether, the Tron blockchain and TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence […]
Aave AAVE$213.08, the governance token of the decentralized lender, posted sharp declines through Thursday, dropping 8% to $208. Since Monday’s $248 high, the token shed over 16%. The DeFi bluechip token carved out consecutive lower highs and lower lows, establishing clear bearish momentum while peers advanced, CoinDesk Research’s market insight tool showed. Trading activity surged […]
Until the final hours of the Netherlands’ Oct. 29 election, Polymarket traders were convinced Geert Wilders’ nationalist Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom) would cruise to victory. The market barely budged as Rob Jetten’s social liberal Democraten 66 (Democrats 66) climbed in every major poll. Then, within minutes of the first exit poll, D66 […]
Chainlink’s native token LINK LINK$18.43 recovered to $18.40 during the Wednesday session, reversing losses from a sharp intraday selloff that saw the price fall below the key $18 support level. A sudden volume spike of 4.59 million tokens — 178% above the 24-hour average — confirmed the breakdown as sellers overpowered short-term support levels. The […]
Deutsche Digital Assets, a Germany-regulated provider of exchange-traded products (ETPs), plans to list an ETP bringing investors exposure to TAO$422.51, a cryptocurrency linked to decentralized artificial intelligence, with the help of Nasdaq Nordic-listed broker Safello (SFL), the firms said on Wednesday. The Safello Bittensor Staked TAO ETP will trade on the SIX Swiss Exchange with […]
SUI slipped 3.4% over the past 24 hours, dropping from $2.62 to $2.53 after a late-day breakdown accelerated on sharp volume spikes, signaling likely institutional selling. The drop shattered the $2.60 support level, a key threshold traders had been watching throughout the session, CoinDesk Analytics found. The breakdown kicked off when volume surged past 25.4 […]
Ethereum-focused digital asset treasury firm ETHZilla (ETHZ) on Froday sold about $40 million ether ETH$4,135.56 from its treasury, so far using some of the cash to repurchase shares of its own stock, the company said on Monday. Since the sale on October 24, the firm bought back around 600,000 shares for roughly $12 million. The […]
ClearBank, a crypto-friendly neobank and regulated provider of Faster Payments in the U.K., plans to join the Circle Payments Network (CPN), linking its cloud-native banking platform to Circle’s blockchain-based infrastructure to speed up cross-border payments and offer access to regulated stablecoins. The move follows a new strategic agreement between the U.K.-founded clearing bank and Circle […]
A proposed XRP Ledger amendment, Batch (XLS-56), is generating excitement among developers and validators alike. One pseudonymous XRP validator, Vet, has shared his experience testing the Batch functionality on the dev net, where multiple transactions, including minting and payments for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), can be bundled and executed automatically. The amendment, according to Vet, enables […]
The REX-Osprey XRP ETF (XRPR) has surpassed $100 million in assets under management (AUM) in just five weeks after its launch, according to issuer REX-Osprey. The ETF has experienced rapid growth since its launch on Sept. 18. It offers investors exposure to the price of XRP, currently the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Loading… With […]
President Donald Trump has named his new choice to lead the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, formally backing Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer Mike Selig after jettisoning his one-time pick of former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz. The near-term leadership of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission could be a weighty matter for the crypto industry as […]
Crypto.com has applied to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national trust bank charter, a step it says would expand its federally supervised crypto-custody services for institutions. In Friday’s announcement, the exchange framed the filing as an extension of its regulated, security-first push for large customers — ETF sponsors, […]