Cathie Wood, CEO of asset management firm Ark Invest, recently met with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and discussed bitcoin. She praised his progressive approach to economic and educational reforms. “President Bukele’s determination to transform El Salvador into a hub for the bitcoin and AI communities — two of the most significant economic and technological…
The presidential meme coin fervor persists, with the token maga (TRUMP) hitting an all-time high of $15.45 on Wednesday. This surge elevated the value of Donald Trump’s TRUMP coins to $8.06 million on May 29. Additionally, various Trump-related crypto assets are emerging from the woodwork, including one leveraging Bitcoin’s Runes protocol for minting. Trump-Themed Meme…
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to pay over $1.8 million in its case against the crypto firm Digital Licensing, also known as Debt Box. The penalty resulted from the SEC’s bad faith conduct in obtaining and defending an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO) based on misrepresentations. Additionally,…
Gemini’s bankrupt crypto lending arm has successfully recovered virtually all of its customers’ digital assets, marking one of the most successful industry recoveries from insolvency to date. The crypto exchange, founded by billionaire entrepreneurs Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, announced on Wednesday that Gemini Earn customers had “received $2.18 billion of their digital assets in kind.”…
Long-term Bitcoin holders – those holding BTC for over 1-2 years – tend to sell portions of their holdings during bullish price phases when bitcoin’s price is rising. This selling behavior was observed from early 2024 through April. However, holders with Bitcoin UTXOs (unspent transaction outputs) older than 3 years continued to accumulate more BTC…
Solana is under consideration for a spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the U.S., sparking debates about how it compares to Litecoin. Meanwhile, TRON has surpassed Ethereum (ETH) in transaction fees. BlockDAG is celebrating its global presence with major events in Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing, Las Vegas’ Sphere, and London’s Piccadilly Circus, marking significant milestones and driving…
Payments giant Paypal has made Paypal USD (PYUSD) available on the Solana blockchain, making the stablecoin “faster and cheaper to use.” Platforms like Crypto.com, Phantom, and Paxos are among the first to offer PYUSD on Solana, alongside Paypal and Venmo wallets. Paypal Makes PYUSD Available on Solana Blockchain Paypal Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: PYPL) announced at…
Former FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame was sentenced yesterday to 90 months in prison, according to Damian Lewis, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Salame previously pled guilty to conspiring to make illegal political contributions and defraud the Federal Election Commission and to conspiracy to run an unlicensed money-transmitting business before…
Blocksquare, a real estate tokenization protocol, has announced that it has tokenized $100 million in properties across various sectors. The team believes this marks a significant advancement in the digital real estate market, facilitated by the launch of their new decentralized finance (defi) platform, Oceanpoint v0.5. From Hotels to Healthcare: Blocksquare Tokenizes $100 Million in…
Financial giant Mastercard has initiated its first real-world application of the Crypto Credential system, a system aimed at facilitating easier and more secure peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency transactions. The service, which allows users to transfer cryptocurrencies using simple aliases, has gone live across several exchanges in Europe and Latin America. Mastercard Launches Crypto Credential, Aiming for…