Blockchain

Japan’s newly elected prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, may open the door for more “refined” regulations to boost the country’s cryptocurrency economy, which could be set to emerge as the next global hub for crypto companies. […]

Inspired by Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin playbook, Joseph Lubin believes Ethereum treasury companies could provide outsized returns on yield and investment opportunities to their Bitcoin counterparts. Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph at Token2049 in Singapore, the Ethereum […]

SharpLink Gaming’s Ether holdings surged in value as the cryptocurrency climbed nearly 4.5% in the past 24 hours, pushing the company’s unrealized gains close to $1 billion. On Tuesday, the company said its unrealized profit […]

Multinational bank Standard Chartered predicted that more than $1 trillion could exit emerging market banks and flow into stablecoins by 2028 as demand for US dollar-pegged crypto assets accelerates.  In a Monday report, Standard Chartered’s […]

Key takeaways:  With inflation at 229%, daily prices in Venezuela are set in USDT “Binance dollars,” usually at live P2P rates. Three dollar rates exist (official, parallel and P2P), but merchants mostly follow the P2P […]

US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) began the historically bullish month of October with their second-best week of inflows since launch, signaling renewed investor optimism. Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs recorded $3.24 billion worth of cumulative […]

Wall Street’s growing interest in late-stage cryptocurrency firms could disrupt the traditional boom-and-bust cycle of digital assets, according to new research. Crypto financial services firm Matrixport said Friday that more than $200 billion worth of […]

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has become the world’s largest startup after reaching a $500 billion valuation in a secondary share sale.  Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reported on Thursday that current and former OpenAI employees sold […]

Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, has asked a US federal judge to acquit him of his sole conviction for unlicensed money transmission and the jury’s hung counts for money laundering and sanctions violations, arguing […]

Ethereum layer-2 network Base’s non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem took center stage in September, recording the highest sales count among collections, according to DappRadar data.  NFTs on Base captured five of the top 10 spots by […]