Fed Governor Lael Brainard Can’t Imagine Future Without Digital Dollar

  Pointing to a number of reasons why a digital version of the U.S. dollar should be created, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard insis...

Bitcoin Price Regains Strength Above $41K, Crypto Market Cap Jumps 6% in 24 Hours

Crypto assets have climbed in value during the last 24 hours as the price of bitcoin tapped a high on Friday, reaching $42,411 per unit at...

German law allowing institutional funds to hold crypto comes into effect Aug. 2

 As much as $415 billion worth of investments could flow into cryptocurrencies as new laws governing German Spezialfonds go into effect. 

Automated Investment Service Firm Wealthfront Adds Support for Grayscale's BTC, ETH Trusts

  On Thursday, the Palo Alto-based automated investment service firm, Wealthfront Inc., announced that customers can now get exposure to c...

Global Cryptocurrency Adoption Doubled Since January Reaching 221 Million Users: Report

  A new report issued by Crypto.com, a cryptocurrency exchange and fintech services firm, discovered that the number of people using crypt...

GoldenTree Asset Management is reportedly investing in Bitcoin

 At least three executives at the $45 billion firm have participated in a funding round for the blockchain-focused VC group Borderless Capi...

Binance completes Polygon wallet integration

The company indicated that transactions should now be cheaper than utilizing the traditional Polygon-Ethereum bridge. 

US Marshals Service Hires Custodian for Seized Cryptocurrencies — Over 185K BTC Confiscated, Sold so Far

  The U.S. Marshals Service, a primary law enforcement agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ), has hired a new custodian for its seized...

New Jersey’s Order Against Blockfi Extended, Vermont Issues Notice to Crypto Lender

  On July 28, Zac Prince, the CEO of crypto finance firm Blockfi, explained that the company has been “engaged in a productive discourse” ...

IMF intends to 'ramp up' digital currency monitoring

 The fund will greatly expand to cover all aspects of digital currency while also working with related financial institutions. 

Algorithmic stablecoins show promise of reducing volatility — ShapeShift

 “Stablecoin experimentation is happening in real-time with billions of dollars at stake in this vast permissionless lab we call DeFi,” rea...

Bitcoin Rewards Firm Lolli Raises $10M in Funding Led by Acrew Capital, Social Media Moguls

The bitcoin rewards platform Lolli has announced the company has closed a $10 million Series A funding round on Wednesday. Lolli says the ...

Russian ‘Time Capsule’ to Facilitate Inheritance of Crypto Assets

  Researchers in Moscow are developing a new service that will allow users to transfer digital data to their heirs, including crypto keys....

Bitcoin Strategy ProFund aims to tackle regulatory barriers for investors

 Mutual funds provider ProFund aims to enable crypto exposure for investors without actually buying Bitcoin. 

Solana based cross-chain exchange Saber raises $7.7M to expand team and tokens

Saber has raised $7.7 million in a seeding fund round, and is rated as the second platform on Solana in terms of total locked value (TVL) w...

Paypal Plans to Study Transactions That Fund Extremism, Anti-Government Groups

The payment processing giant Paypal has revealed it has partnered with the nonprofit organization the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Accord...

US Senator Says Cryptocurrencies Put Americans' Hard-Earned Money at Risk

  U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown says cryptocurrencies are not real dollars and they “put Americans’ hard-earned money at risk.” Referring to ...

Blockfolio rides off into the sunset, but it's a new dawn for FTX App

 FTX indicated that although the Blockfolio brand is being retired, this would not affect the services offered to users. 

Coca-Cola officially gets into NFTs for charity

“Each NFT was created to celebrate elements that are core to the Coca-Cola brand, reinterpreted for a virtual world in new and exciting wa...

Nigerian Central Bank Stops Forex Sales to Bureaus de Change — Operators Accused of Feeding Black Market

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently announced the abrupt end to sales and outsourcing of foreign exchange to Bureau de Change (BDC)...

Unique Addresses Tethered to Ethereum Defi Apps Climb Past 3 Million

  The number of users or unique addresses leveraging decentralized finance (defi) protocols via Ethereum has risen past 3 million accordin...

Japan to test Ripple’s ODL service for money transfers to Philippines

 Japan’s first On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service implementation helps Ripple to drive the adoption of crypto-enabled services. 

$7B investment firm recommends crypto to beat currency debasement

Crypto and land are the best assets to protect against currency debasement, advises contrarian investment firm, Horizon Kinetics. 

Stacks AMM Revealed, Native Bitcoin Swaps Executed With Proof-of-Transfer Protocol

  According to a recent report, the first trust-less swap between the Bitcoin blockchain and Stacks protocol has been executed. The co-fou...

Brazilian Burger King Customers Can Now Purchase Meat-Flavored Dog Biscuits With Dogecoin

  According to regional reports, the Burger King franchise in Brazil has introduced a new type of food specifically made for canines calle...

Robinhood introduces feature aimed at protecting investors from crypto volatility

“We’ve been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to provide our crypto customers with the functionality that they’ve been asking for,” sai...

Dash launches retail consumer app for shopping in stores across America

The app allows consumers to pay with Dash at over 155,000 in-store locations and 125 online retailers across the United States. 

Finder's Experts Predict Ethereum Will Reach $4.5K This Year, $18K in 2025

  Ethereum will have a very bullish year, according to a price prediction poll made by Finder. The average price that the second-ranked cr...

Market Strategist Says Bitcoin's Best Days Are Ahead, Won't See Restrictive Fed Policy Anytime Soon

  The founder of investment management firm Michael Lee Strategy says that “the best days of bitcoin are definitely ahead of it,” expectin...

India to use Ethereum blockchain to verify diploma certificates

 A new partnership with LegitDoc places India among early adopters to implement an e-governance system for higher education. 

Institutions continue offloading BTC exposure despite price rebound

 Bitcoin funds are still in decline as institutional sentiment remains bearish. 

Jeff Bezos Directs Amazon to Accept Bitcoin and Other Popular Cryptocurrencies: Report

  Amazon is reportedly planning to accept bitcoin by the end of the year, after which the company will roll out support for other major cr...

Massive Short Squeeze Pushes Bitcoin Closer to $40K, Crypto Economy Jumps 9% Higher

  The price of bitcoin jumped over 15% in a matter of three hours on Sunday evening and came awfully close to the $40K handle. Since then, ...

Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team joins fan token platform Socios

 “This is the start of an exciting partnership that we believe can eventually lead to greatly enhanced fan engagement for fans of the Cava...

Here’s how much Musk and Saylor’s tweets influenced crypto prices in Q2

 Elon Musk and Michael Saylor have emerged as two of the most influential names in crypto. A new sentiment-driven analysis from The TIE and...

Kubernetes Clusters Used to Mine Monero by Attackers

 Attackers are abusing an attack vector present in one of the most popular execution engines (Argo Workflows) to repurpose Kubernetes syst...

FTX Slashes Leverage Limit from 100x to 20x — Community Suspects Competitors Will Follow Example

  FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried told his Twitter followers on Sunday that his crypto exchange has lowered its margin trading limit from 101x t...

China's crackdown signals an oncoming crypto ban, Bobby Lee says

 China has been increasing its regulatory pressure on crypto firms to help Chinese citizens stay clear of high-risk investments. 

Uniswap delists 100 tokens from interface including options and indexes

 Synthetic tokens and tokenized stocks have made it onto Uniswap Labs’ black list as regulatory concerns mount. 

Crypto Companies Establish Presence, Hire Talent in Ireland

  With a friendly attitude towards financial innovation, the Republic of Ireland has become a desired destination for fintech businesses t...

Coinbase, Executives, Investors Hit With Lawsuit Over Nasdaq Listing

  A class-action lawsuit has been filed against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, its executives, and investors over the company’s direct ...

Countries representing over 90% of global GDP are exploring CBDCs

 Governments around the world are pouring more resources into CBDC research and exploratory use cases. Among the major economies, China ap...

Irish Banks Hail EU’s ‘Radical’ Anti-Money Laundering Push

Banks in Ireland have welcomed an upcoming reform of the European Union’s anti-money laundering regulations that will affect the crypto sp...

Strategist Mike McGlone Believes Bitcoin Can Jump to $60K Resistance vs. $20K Support

The senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, Mike McGlone, has been long on bitcoin for a while now and he said last month t...

Users Criticize Uniswap's Decision to Remove Over 100 Tokens From Main Interface

  The largest decentralized exchange (dex) platform, in terms of trade volume, Uniswap has revealed the dex has removed a number of tokens...

Circle K Deploys Bitcoin ATMs in Stores Across US and Canada — Over 700 Machines Already Installed

  A leading convenience and fuel retailer, Circle K, is deploying bitcoin ATMs in its stores across the U.S. and Canada. More than 700 mac...

After Barclays and Santander, UK Bank Natwest Blocks Payments to Binance

  A major high street bank in the U.K., Natwest, has blocked payments to crypto exchange Binance. Natwest’s decision came after two other ...

$10B asset manager registers new Bitcoin fund with SEC

 Stone Ridge Asset Management, the parent company of New York Digital Investment Group, or NYDIG, has been actively pursuing new investment...

Abkhazia Holds Talks With Russia to Ensure Electricity Supply for Crypto Miners

  The government of Abkhazia is negotiating with Russia to solve a problem that led to a ban on cryptocurrency mining. The partially recog...

64% of Adults from 10 Different Countries Would Use a Central Bank Digital Currency: Report

  As central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) advance in testing, a number of countries have taken the lead in an effort to create a CBDC. ...