Samsung is buying a $408 million stake in South Korea’s biggest crypto exchange
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Three Samsung affiliates agreed to buy a 4% stake in Dunamu, the operator of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Upbit, for a total of 612.8 billion won ($408 million), the Korea Herald reported. Investment bank Samsung Securities is set to take a 2% stake in Dunamu in a 306 billion-won cash transaction, from affiliates of […]

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Google engineer insider-traded search results on Polymarket, Feds allege
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A Google security engineer, Michele Spagnuolo, was arrested and charged over alleged insider trading by placing bets on Polymarket about what Google users were searching, U.S. officials alleged on Wednesday. According to a complaint unsealed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Spagnuolo used “material nonpublic information” to place bets […]

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Bitcoin on the ropes at $75,000 as AI token rally fizzles: Crypto Markets Today
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The crypto market is at a critical point on Wednesday, with bitcoin BTC$75,813.04 priced close to the $75,000 level of support after failing to break through $78,000 on Tuesday. Ether’s (ETH) chart tells a similar story. The second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was rejected off $2,150 on Tuesday, and fell toward the $2,000 support level. […]

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Trump praises prediction markets, defends CFTC as court cases compound
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U.S. President Donald Trump said it was “critically important” that the CFTC keep “exclusive authority” over prediction markets, echoing CFTC Chair Michael Selig in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform, late Tuesday afternoon. “Under my leadership, we are setting ‘rules of the road’ that are the Gold Standard for the States,” he […]

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Bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) prices slide while stocks gain alongside AI tokens: Crypto Markets Today
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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 […]

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NEAR price rally gains momentum as cross-chain product activity fuels further 15% jump
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NEAR Protocol’s token climbed 15% over the past 24 hours to $2.8, extending a month-long rally that has seen the price of NEAR double in the past month. The move comes amid the success surrounding NEAR Intents, the network’s cross-chain transaction system. The product allows users to request a desired outcome, such as swapping USDC […]

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HYPE funds attract millions as investors dump bitcoin and ether ETFs
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Crypto fund flows are starting to fracture, with investors exiting bitcoin BTC$77,483.75 and ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) while rotating into alternative tokens such as Hyperliquid’s hype (HYPE) and XRP (XRP). Bitcoin ETFs saw more than $1 billion in outflows last week, extending a sharp institutional pullback, while ether funds lost another $215 million, according […]

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Coinbase does not fear competition from Wall Street, says exchange executive
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Coinbase is not at all concerned with the increasing competition from Wall Street giants or other traditional financial institutions, the crypto exchange’s head of Policy for Europe told CoinDesk on Friday. “We have always said that a rising tide lifts all ships,” said Katie Harries, adding that Coinbase is “not at all” worried about the […]

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BTC set to outperform after long, difficult stretch versus traditional assets
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Bitcoin BTC$79,559.69 may be entering a new period of outperformance against traditional assets as inflation pressures persist and bond markets weaken, according to Risk Dimensions chief investment officer Mark Connors. Connors, who spent years as the global head of portfolio management at Credit Suisse, said bitcoin recently broke out of what had been its longest […]

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BTC heads back to $77,000 on Middle East peace deal
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After crumbling about 4% late Friday into early Saturday, bitcoin BTC$76,505.15 has more than retraced those losses in the past few minutes after President Trump announced a coming agreement with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries. “An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of […]

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Bitcoin tanks to $74,300 as spot ETFs bleed $2.26 billion in two weeks
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Bitcoin BTC$75,328.36 is rapidly losing ground as investors pull out billions of dollars from U.S.-listed spot ETFs. The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell to $74,305 early Saturday, its lowest level since April 20, according to CoinDesk data. As of writing, BTC was down more than 3% over the past 24 hours and approximately 10% below its […]

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F2Pool founder who controls 11% of bitcoin’s hashrate to lead first SpaceX mission to Mars
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Chun Wang, the Chinese-born Maltese-Kittitian crypto investor who co-founded F2Pool, has been named Mission Commander for SpaceX’s first commercial human spaceflight interplanetary mission to Mars, crucial to Elon Musk’s plans to send one million people to the Red Planet. Wang, whose mining pool controls roughly 11.3% of the global Bitcoin network hashrate and whose personal […]

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