Nasdaq’s Shift To Round-The-Clock Stock Trading Due to Crypto, Says Exchange Executive
Stock and other traditional financial asset traders across the world are wanting to be able to buy and sell assets around the clock, resulting in…
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How Ether.fi Retained TVL as Restaking Lost Its Luster
A year ago, restaking was one of the hottest areas of crypto, and projects like EigenLayer were heralded as the next big thing. Fast forward…
Gotbit Founder Aleksei Andriunin Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud, Market Manipulation
Gotbit founder Aleksei Andriunin struck a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday that will see him serve no more than 24 months behind bars…
Data Storage Protocol Walrus Raises $140M in Token Sale Ahead of Mainnet Launch
The Walrus protocol, a blockchain-based data storage platform, said it raised $140 million in a private sale of its native token, WAL, led by Standard…
Biotech’s ATAI Life Sciences Joins Roster of Firms With Bitcoin Treasury Strategies
Another company has elected to add bitcoin (BTC) to its balance sheet. Christian Angermayer, the chairman of Germany-based biopharmaceutical company atai Life Sciences (ATAI) announced…
Inside Pump.fun’s Plan to Dominate Solana DeFi Trading
Solana’s most profitable protocol Pump.fun is gunning for an even greater share of the chain’s DeFi economy. The massively popular memecoin launchpad on Thursday unveiled…
Bitcoin DeFi Expansion Faces Fork Dilemma as Developers Explore ZK Proofs
Bitcoin developers looking to expand the blockchain’s decentralized finance (DeFi) capabilities are likely to be considering zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs, functionality that’s not currently available and…
As Congress Talks Up Its Earth-Shaking Crypto Bill, Regulators Are Already at Work
While the crypto sector’s eyes are drawn to the policy fireworks in the White House and Congress, the financial agencies have been taking consequential bites…
Crypto Will ‘Expand Dominance of U.S. Dollar,’ Trump Says
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump dropped a video into a crypto event on Thursday, amping up his pro-crypto sentiment with an assertion that crypto…
TON Jumps as Foundation Says VC Firms Invested $400M in the Token
Toncoin (TON), the native token of the Telegram-adjacent TON blockchain, spiked on Thursday as ecosystem organization The Open Network Foundation said several venture capital firms…