Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
BTQ Technologies has been selected as the core security infrastructure provider for South Korea’s first bank-led Korean Won stablecoin proof-of-concept, deploying its Quantum Secure Stablecoin Network on the Kaia mainnet — a development that po...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse used a Consensus 2026 interview with CoinDesk to frame the XRP community as one of crypto’s most durable forces, while warning that chain maximalism remains a drag on the industry’s broader adoption story.
Speaking after...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
A combined 130 million people in Bolivia and the Philippines now have access to Western Union’s new digital dollar, USDPT — a US dollar-backed stablecoin running on the Solana blockchain.
A Big Name Makes Its Blockchain Debut
Western Union, wh...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
Drift Protocol announced on Tuesday that it has laid out a recovery plan for users affected by the April 1 exploit, an incident that resulted in a major loss of roughly $295 million in user funds on the lending decentralized exchange (DEX).
Drift Pro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
Spanish bank Sabadell is the latest to join a consortium of European banks seeking to launch a euro-pegged stablecoin to make transactions more efficient and increase the dominance of Europe’s digital assets market.
Sabadell Joins European Banking C...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
Moscow Exchange plans to begin calculating and publishing new crypto indices for Solana, XRP, Tron and Binance Coin from May 13, broadening Russia’s regulated market infrastructure for digital-asset-linked products. The move matters because the bench...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
Bitcoin is holding above $80,000 as the market tests key resistance and participants debate whether the recovery from the March lows has the foundation for a sustained move higher. The price has recovered 17.5% over the past month — a meaningful move...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
A $300 million bond demand is now at the center of a legal fight over 30,766 Ethereum frozen in the wake of April’s Kelp DAO hack — and a New York court will decide whether the funds stay locked or flow to victims.
DeFi Protocol Takes Legal Ac...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
XRP has reclaimed the $1.40 level as the market heats up and buyers begin asserting control after weeks of consolidation. The move is modest but directional — and a CryptoQuant analyst has just identified a signal in the order flow data that suggests...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
XRP’s price action is somewhat muted, but Binance reserve data is showing a different kind of pressure building under the price movement. The exchange’s XRP balance has fallen from about 3.05 billion tokens to roughly 2.75 billion in less than a year...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
Bitcoin may be the largest cryptocurrency asset in the space, but Ethereum, on the other hand, continues to control a large share of the market. In recent market activity, the Ethereum network is starting to surpass the Bitcoin network in terms of ca...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
A crypto pundit has revealed five major investment plans for long-term XRP holders. The plan, shared publicly on X this week, outlines several key points to help investors make the most of their holdings and position themselves for potential gains. W...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 days ago
Australian rapper Iggy Azalea is now facing a federal class action connected to her Solana-based memecoin, MOTHER, after the token experienced a steep collapse in price. The lawsuit comes in the wake of a dramatic drop of roughly 99%, which plaintiff...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
The crypto market could be headed toward a double-digit Bitcoin price crash, as an analyst has identified a historical pattern that he says has always occurred after BTC’s cyclical halving event. According to the expert, Bitcoin has always crashed ex...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Before its recent rebound, the downturn in Bitcoin’s price was attributed to several factors that significantly hampered its performance. However, one of these factors stood out the most during the downtrend, and that was heightened selling pressure...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Bitcoin is once again at a critical technical crossroads, with a widely discussed chart structure suggesting that a sharp decline could be on the table. A recent analysis shared on X by crypto trader @0xPepesso points to a classic bearish continuatio...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Solana executive Vibhu recently alluded to content about how the war with XRP was over. This follows the integration of the wrapped XRP (wXRP) on the Solana network, which the Solana executive indicated is a positive for the crypto space.
Solana Exe...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Ripple’s former CTO David Schwartz pushed back against the idea that he is a committed long-term XRP holder, saying in a series of X posts that Ripple stock, not XRP, now represents his main exposure to the crypto sector.
The comments matter because...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Before Standard Chartered’s investment arm took a stake in GSR, the crypto market maker had already made a move of its own.
GSR invested in Libeara last month — a tokenization platform backed by SC Ventures — designed to help financial institut...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
American crypto exchange Coinbase will cut roughly 700 workers — about 14% of its global headcount — in a restructuring move the company says is driven by a slowing crypto market and a rapid shift toward AI-powered operations.
The cuts are expected...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Charles Hoskinson pushed back against criticism that Cardano prioritized governance over scaling, arguing that the network’s current roadmap reflects years of research rather than a delayed pivot. The dispute comes as Input Output’s latest treasury p...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Bitmine Immersion Technologies, the world’s largest known Ethereum treasury company, acquired an additional 101,745 ETH last week for over $240 million, pushing total holdings to 5.18 million tokens — as Chairman Thomas “Tom” Lee de...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, has filed a lawsuit against its very own crypto custodian, Etana Custody, and its CEO, Brandon Rusell, alleging that Etana misappropriated more than $25 million in client funds and operat...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Ethereum treasury company Bitmine has expanded its holdings with another ETH acquisition, reaching 86% of the way to its 5% supply goal.
Bitmine Accumulated 101,745 ETH Over The Past Week
According to a press release, Bitmine has furthered its Ethere...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Strive Asset Management reported a quarterly Bitcoin yield of 4.3% and a yearly performance of 18.7% — figures that came alongside its latest purchase announcement and paint a picture of a firm moving with quiet urgency.
A Firm Built Around Accumulat...