For years, privacy in transacting was one of crypto’s most ambitious promises. Then it took a back seat as other trends took off. As developers focused on scaling blockchains and regulators scrutinized privacy tools such as Tornado Cash, much of the industry’s attention shifted elsewhere. But a new Ethereum proposal and a growing number of […]
Crypto investors endured one of their toughest week in years as a wave of selling wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars from digital asset markets. Bitcoin BTC$60,794.61 fell 17.3% this week while ether (ETH) dropped 22%, putting both assets on track for their largest weekly declines since November 2022, when the collapse of Sam […]
Bitcoin BTC$77,368.07 traded at $76,600 on Tuesday, down 0.8% since midnight UTC, as Monday’s brief bounce to $77,800 fades. The move leaves the largest cryptocurrency potentially forming another lower high in a bearish structure that has been in place since October, and down 7% over the past two weeks. The weakness is not reflected in […]
DeFi lender Aave and other stakeholders impacted by last month’s Kelp DAO hack have launched a binding Arbitrum governance vote to transfer $71 million in disputed ether into an Aave LLC-controlled address A Constitutional Arbitrum Improvement Proposal, or AIP, is the DAO’s formal on-chain governance mechanism for approving binding protocol actions. This amended proposal implements […]
A Manhattan federal judge has cleared the way for Aave’s recovery effort to move forward after last month’s North Korea-linked rsETH exploit, allowing $71 million in frozen ether to be transferred out of Arbitrum while preserving North Korean terrorism victims’ legal claim on the funds. In a two-page order published late Friday U.S. time, Judge […]
Miami — Bitmine (BMNR), the largest Ethereum treasury firm, may slow the pace of its ether (ETH) accumulation as the firm is inching closer to reaching its accumulation goal, Chairman Tom Lee said Thursday at Consensus 2026 in Miami. The company, which holds over 5.1 million ETH worth around $11.9 billion at current prices, originally […]
Bitcoin BTC$79,707.35 just gave the options desks the breakout they were positioning for. The largest crypto crossed $81,000 in Asian hours Tuesday, its highest level since late January, up from $79,000 at the end of U.S. trading hours on Monday and 5.3% higher on the week. Other majors traded mixed. Ether held $2,379, off 0.1% […]
Bitcoin BTC$71,736.44 and other major cryptocurrencies all fell around 2% late Saturday evening U.S. hours after Vice President J.D. Vance announced that U.S. and Iranian negotiators had failed to agree to an extended ceasefire. The parties met in Pakistan Saturday to negotiate an agreement after the U.S.’s nearly six-week long campaign against Iran. Vance said […]
Brokerage services giant Charles Schwab plans to roll out spot cryptocurrency trading in the first half of 2026, pushing it deeper into digital assets. “We remain on track to launch our spot crypto offer in the first half of 2026, starting with bitcoin BTC$66,835.15 and ether (ETH),” a company spokesperson told CoinDesk on Friday. The […]
SGX’s bitcoin BTC$90,301.29 and ether ETH$3,113.55 perpetual futures have become increasingly popular since their debut two weeks ago, and that growth represents new liquidity rather than cash redirected from elsewhere, said Michael Syn, president of the SGX Group. The products, cryptocurrency derivatives that allow institutional traders to speculate on the price of an asset without […]
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Monday launched a pilot program allowing select digital assets — bitcoin BTC$90,938.56, ether ETH$3,134.24 and USD Coin (USDC) or other payment stablecoins — to be used as collateral in U.S. derivatives markets. The program, announced by Acting Chairman Caroline Pham, is part of a broader push to give […]
Latin American cryptocurrency exchange Ripio has revealed it holds a crypto treasury valued at over $100 million, making it the second-largest publicly known such firm in Latin America behind OranjeBTC. The company’s CEO Sebastian Serrano confirmed the figure in an interview with CoinDesk during DevConnect 2025 in Buenos Aires, noting that it began acquiring bitcoin […]