Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Payments giant Mastercard has secured New York’s BitLicense, one of the toughest regulatory approvals, to advance its digital assets strategy and expand its stablecoin and tokenized deposits infrastructure.
Mastercard Wins Major Regulatory Approval...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Crypto analyst Chain Mind has drawn a correlation between Bitcoin and the S&P 500, noting how the latter could determine the BTC bottom. Based on analysis, the leading crypto has yet to find a bottom, with the stock market still making new highs....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Spot HYPE ETFs have absorbed a larger share of Hyperliquid’s market capitalization in their first 10 trading days than comparable spot crypto ETF launches for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, according to Kairos Research. The firm said the products’ ear...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
A new amendment proposal submitted to the XRP Ledger Foundation’s repository on May 26 would fundamentally redesign how liquidity pools function on the XRP Ledger — introducing multiple curve types, concentrated liquidity, and a future fully pr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
A large, unidentified holder sold roughly $1.3 billion worth of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, through a dark pool on Tuesday morning, in what ETF analysts described as an unusually large block trade. The sale stood out not only because of its s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
UK authorities are ramping up their pressure on Russia with a fresh sanctions package targeting over a dozen individuals, crypto networks, and firms used to bypass the country’s sanctions.
Russia-Linked Crypto Firms Hit With New Sanctions
On Tuesday...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
South Korean prosecutors have indicted five individuals in the country’s first-ever criminal prosecution of a decentralized exchange rug pull — and the first case in which fraudulent trading charges under South Korea’s Virtual Asset User...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Polymarket and Kalshi have been hit with mounting regulatory scrutiny, and Spain is now the latest jurisdiction to step in. After challenges ranging from security concerns to government investigations, Spanish regulators have begun a formal process a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
The founder of Capriole Investments has highlighted how institutions have reversed course on Bitcoin recently, taking to selling once more.
Bitcoin Has Seen Institutional Demand Turn Red Recently
In a new post on X, Capriole Investments founder Charl...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Security researchers say Google’s ad platform has been weaponized for over a year, with threat actors running fake sponsored links that funnel unsuspecting crypto users to phishing sites designed to drain their wallets.
How The Attack Works
The...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
On-chain data shows an ancient Ethereum wallet containing 2,000 ETH that had been inactive for nearly 11 years has suddenly come back to life.
Ethereum OG Wallet Has Turned $620 Into $4.2 Million
According to data from cryptocurrency transaction trac...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
XRP has been grinding in sideways consolidation below key resistance since early February, showing no clear trend and offering participants little directional conviction despite weeks of waiting for a catalyst to force a decisive move. The indecision...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says crypto will need to support internet-scale stablecoin micropayments if AI agents are going to coexist with the open web. In a Bankless interview on May 25, Prince argued that the internet’s ad-based business model i...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Chainlink has continued to struggle below the critical $10 level as uncertainty dominates the broader crypto market, with traders waiting for a decisive move to break the current consolidation structure. Despite repeated recovery attempts throughout...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Bets on the Texas Republican Senate primary runoff topped $16 million in total volume on prediction platform Kalshi, which gave crypto-backed candidate Ken Paxton a 96% chance of defeating incumbent John Cornyn heading into Tuesday’s vote.
The...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin’s cycle map is putting one month at the center of its next major turning point. The premise of everything changing in one month is not based on one chart alone but on a combination of cycle timing, HODL wave behavior, drawdown patterns, and o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s criticism of how the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) handled national trust bank charters for digital asset firms has triggered a direct response from the crypto industry.
On Tuesday, The Digital Chamber (T...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin’s price action has been rejected at a price level that has acted as resistance and support in the past five years. This macro resistance level that has defined Bitcoin’s price ceiling for nearly five years has once again turned back the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Once again, the Bitcoin price is gradually regaining upside momentum after its recent pullback, with many crypto analysts anticipating a move toward the pivotal $80,000 mark. Data from a key metric now shows that the BTC market is entering a cooling...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
XRP could create enormous wealth for long-term holders if institutional adoption and global liquidity demand expand the way some market analysts expect. That was the message pushed by crypto commentator Remi Relief, who argued that future XRP valuati...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Despite recording multiple price declines in recent weeks, a crypto market expert believes that Ethereum (ETH) could still stage its biggest comeback in history. The analyst has projected a massive price spike toward $3,300, expecting it to occur wit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
XRP is still capped by ongoing volatility in the market, limiting its price below the $1.40 level, but its market dynamics are beginning to experience a crucial change. This shift in dynamics is currently being reflected in the Whale Vs Retail Delta,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Ethereum is facing one of its most uncomfortable periods in recent memory, with GSR Research’s Carlos Guzman arguing that leadership turnover, weak ETH performance and a sharpening debate over the Ethereum Foundation’s (EF) role have exposed a deeper...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
The XRP ETFs continue to see significant demand despite the current bear market conditions, with XRP on the decline. These funds are also outperforming the Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, which are seeing outflows as BTC and ETH trend downwards.
XRP ETFs...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
OKX says its new platform can handle up to 300,000 transactions per second, running at millisecond-level speed — a technical benchmark the company set out as it launched Exchange OS on Tuesday.
A Shared Home For Different Markets
The platform is bui...