What Trump 2.0 really means for the crypto industry — beyond bitcoin
Will Trump 2.0 be the catalyst the crypto industry has yearned for? And will his return to the White House accelerate adoption and bring the industry to the moon? So far, it seems like it. A week afte...
Dogecoin traded more than Microsoft and Amazon combined yesterday
With the crypto market on a tear following its advocate Donald Trump’s election win, prices hit a record high on Monday, topping an unprecedented $88,000. But among the myriad of digital tokens ridin...
S&P 500 posts first close above 6,000; crypto soars
The S&P 500 closed above 6,000 for the first time ever, inching 0.1% higher on the day. The Nasdaq 100 was modestly lower, while the Russell 2000 jumped 1.5%. Among US sector ETFs, consumer discretion...
Dogecoin hits 2024 high
While President-elect Donald Trump has brought a lot of attention and enthusiasm to the original cryptocurrency, — which has soared past a new record high of $87,000 — Elon Musk’s favorite meme coin,...
The total value of virtual currency bitcoin is now a very real $1.6 trillion
In the world of crypto, the Trump Pump is real and showing few signs of slowing down. During his campaign, the president-elect put out a video on X announcing his plans to ensure that the US would bec...
Every bitcoin-linked stock is blasting to the moon
Decentralized finance is seeing concentrated gains. That’s perhaps the most powerful investment theme in the wake of an election in which Donald Trump and a suite of pro-crypto congressional candidate...
Crypto enters a new regulatory era under Trump
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to make the US “the crypto capital of the planet.” So it’s no wonder everyone from everyday investors to the Winklevoss twins are celebrating Trump’s win,...
The French Polymarket whale won so much money that France is investigating the platform
My favorite story from this election cycle was that of the French Polymarket whale, “Théo.” On October 18, The Wall Street Journal reported that a group of four accounts on Polymarket, the popular cry...
Bitcoin soars to new all-time high on election night
As the votes were tallied overnight, optimism among the crypto crowd drove to cross a new all-time high of over $75,000 around 1 a.m. ET, as traders priced in a Trump win. Additionally, the defeat o...
Bitcoin price falls as polls and prediction markets lower Trump’s odds
The day before the US election, prediction markets have narrowed their odds, with CoinDesk reporting that Polymarket had dropped the odds of a Trump victory to as low as 53% overnight on Saturday — it...
MicroStrategy is a $49 billion bitcoin holding company that wants $42 billion more in bitcoin
MicroStrategy is one of the most interesting companies in the market. Normally, when a company announces an at-the-market offering to issue new shares, its stock price declines because that offering w...
Report from on-chain sleuths links MrBeast’s crypto wallet to shady shilling, millions in profits
A group of crypto on-chain analysts and social-media investigators have published a detailed analysis connecting the publicly identified crypto wallet of Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, to a wide networ...
Bitcoin closes in on all-time high, and everyone wants in on the action
Bitcoin neared a new record high, with the coin rising over 3% today to as much as $73,560 at 3:10 p.m. ET. Its current all-time-high price of $73,737 was hit on March 14, 2024, according to CoinGecko...
Stripe’s now all in on stablecoins, but it paid a steep price
On Monday, Stripe made huge news by announcing that it was acquiring stablecoin-enablement platform Bridge for a reported $1.1 billion. This isn’t Stripe’s first foray into the crypto space: the payme...
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin rebrands and launches a fresh “orb”
World wants you to forget about that whole coin thing. The company formerly known as Worldcoin has rebranded, chopping the “coin” from its name and doubling down on its stated goal of providing “proof...
Buterin reveals plan for ethereum’s “surge”
The cofounder of , Vitalik Buterin, shared a lengthy road map today detailing his planned evolution of the blockchain. The goal: reach 100,000 transactions per second while “preserving the robustness ...
Trump-affiliated crypto project aims to raise $300 million with token sale
A Donald Trump-linked crypto project is one step closer to launching. World Liberty Financial said on X that it planned to hold a public token sale tomorrow. The goal, according to The Block , is to r...
FTX’s bankruptcy proved to be quite lucrative for hedge funds
Marking the culmination of one of the wildest bankruptcy stories of the 2020s (besides maybe Hertz ), FTX creditors are poised to get all of their money back… and then some. On Monday, CNBC reported t...
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Grifters reportedly scammed Worldcoin out of almost $700,000 in crypto
Worldcoin had an identity problem. As the eyeball-scanning business dealt with the aftermath of a global regulatory crackdown , a group of scammers in Berlin was reportedly hard at work fleecing the c...
Despite flipping on Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison gets 2 years in prison for role in FTX fraud
Moments before he decided how long she will spend in prison, Judge Lewis Kaplan pointed to a time when Caroline Ellison told the government about a piece of damningly incriminating evidence, unprompte...