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After two decades building systems that evolved from reactive to cognitive – first at VMware with mobile device security, now in compliance infrastructure for digital asset markets – I've seen that following the rules i…
The Ethereum Foundation is cutting roughly 20% of its workforce, eliminating 54 positions as part of a broad restructuring that comes amid sustained senior leadership turnover and growing fragmentation across the wider …
The weeks are growing short for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act to thread the needle of the U.S. Senate, but talks continue in several distinct negotiations as lawmakers seek to patch the remaining rifts in the cry…
The $1.7 trillion asset manager Franklin Templeton is establishing a new dedicated active crypto investment management arm through acquisition of 250 Digital.
Ripple, the blockchain company behind the XRP Ledger, is on its way to regulatory approval in the European Union (EU) via licensing in Luxembourg.
Tanya Denisova, the former chief operating officer of Robinhood Crypto, has joined stablecoin issuer Agora as head of operations, according to a Tuesday blog post by Agora's CEO and co-founder Nick van Eck.
Former bitcoin miner Hut 8 (HUT) agreed to pay $2.35 million to settle a securities class action alleging it misled investors in connection with its 2023 merger with U.S. Bitcoin Corp. (USBTC).
That's the conclusion from an indicator that might seem to signal a bearish shift in sentiment but has tended to presage a more bullish outlook.
The selloff follows Monday's downturn in technology stocks, with another day in the red foreshadowed by Nasdaq 100 futures, which have cratered by 2.5% since midnight.
A widely watched indicator has flipped to "altcoin season," for the opposite reason the label suggests. Glassnode's Altcoin Cycle Signal, which reads above 50 when alternative coins, or alts, outperform bitcoin, has cli…
XRP is running out of room. After spending most of June trapped between resistance overhead and support near $1.10, the token is once again testing the bottom of its range.
Bitcoin fell toward $63,000 on Tuesday, caught in a broad retreat from risk as investors pulled out of the technology stocks that have led markets all year.
The U.S. government wants to build a quantum computer – the ultra-fast machine that could theoretically break the Bitcoin
SpaceX's stock has lost more than $600 billion in market value over three trading days, which is nearly half of bitcoin's $1.3 trillion market cap, after announcing its first bond sale.
A group of former Ethereum Foundation researchers have started a new nonprofit research and development organization backed by some of ether's largest corporate holders, as the Ethereum ecosystem undergoes a major organ…
Thanks to the newly passed U.S. Senate housing affordability bill, the Federal Reserve may be heading toward a formal ban from instituting a digital dollar in the form of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), despite …
Latest developments: Edelman argues investor sentiment and industry fundamentals are moving in opposite directions.
The Ethereum community is once again debating the future of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang announced she would step down from her leadership role, the latest in a growing list of…
Latest developments: Digital credit products tied to Strategy's bitcoin-backed ecosystem suffered steep declines last week before partially recovering.
Top U.S. crypto lobbying groups united to ask that the U.S. House of Representatives embrace a bill that gives digital assets miners and recipients of staking rewards an option for deciding when to take a tax hit on the…
The largest Ethereum treasury company is still buying ether (ETH) but it has slowed its pace as it nears the goal to accumulate 5% of the second-largest crypto's supply.
MoneyGram said Monday it has become a validator on the Solana (SOL) blockchain, the latest step in the remittance firm's ongoing push into crypto infrastructure as it builds payment services around stablecoins.
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Despite the green shoots among the majors, the broader market has yet to follow suit. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) remains slightly lower over 24 hours. Still, smaller outliers like DEXE and BEAT jumped of 8% and 5%.