X has launched Cashtags, a feature letting users view live price charts and posts for stocks and crypto directly in their timelines.
Bitcoin spiked above $75,000 this morning, up nearly 6% in 24 hours, as US-Iran de-escalation news sparked a relief rally and short squeeze.
Bloomberg reports that a few crypto startups – Apyx, Buck, and Saturn – are issuing yield-bearing stablecoins backed largely by Strategy’s Stretch (STRC) preferred shares instead of safer assets like cash or T-bills
Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled Claude Mythos Preview, a frontier AI model it says is so capable at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that it cannot be released to the public.
Galaxy filed its first annual report as a Nasdaq-listed company, pivoting from purely crypto narratives to also regulated infrastructure
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Figure (FIGR) – the fairly new fintech pubco that uses the blockchain to move home-equity loans around – got a fresh vote of confidence from Bernstein after the fintech’s March loan volume topped $1 billion for the first time and helping drive $2.9 billion in first-quarter originations.
Drift Protocol on Saturday detailed a six-month social engineering campaign that culminated in the April 1 theft of $280 million from its Solana exchange.
Coinbase says it has received conditional OCC approval to form Coinbase National Trust Company, which is a meaningful regulatory step – but not because the company is becoming a bank.
Solana-based trading platform Drift suffered an exploit yesterday, draining at least $285 million across multiple vaults.
Plus, Franklin Templeton launches Franklin Crypto aimed at pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and other institutional investors
Google's new estimate puts the hardware needed to break the elliptic-curve cryptography used by bitcoin, ethereum, and other crypto networks at fewer than 500,000 physical qubits, a sharp drop from the “millions” many had assumed.
David Sacks is stepping down as the US government's crypto and AI czar to join Trump's new tech council as co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Using conservative assumptions (a $1.9 trillion market by 2030, Circle holding 25% share, and margins cut in half), Circle could be worth as much as $75 billion – roughly double today's price.
Tether has hired a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first comprehensive audit of reserves backing USDT, the $180 billion stablecoin.
The White House and key senators appear to have reached an agreement in principle on the stablecoin-yield language that has been holding up the Clarity Act, with White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt calling it a “major milestone.”
The market hasn’t exactly been ripping lately and now the cost-cutting is starting to show.
Vivek Ramaswamy's Strive (ASST) added 317 BTC in the past week, bringing its total to 13,627.9 BTC and entering the top 10 public bitcoin treasury holders.
This is the clearest sign yet that U.S. regulators are trying to replace enforcement-by-ambiguity with an actual rulebook, even before the Clarity Act is passed.
Mastercard agreed to acquire stablecoin infrastructure company, BVNK, for up to $1.8 billion.
Digital asset platform Abra is merging with New Providence Acquisition Corp. III (NPACU) to list on Nasdaq under ticker ABRX, valuing the company at $750 million pre-money.
An activist investor is urging ProCap Financial (BRR) shareholders to reject a merger with CFO Silvia, a five-month-old startup with zero revenue, arguing the deal would dilute their claim on the company's 5,400+ Bitcoin treasury.
Strive (ASST), the BTC treasury company founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, just bought another bitcoin company's dividend shares while selling its own at a loss – a circular trade that masks a deeper problem.
While many investors dismiss $1 million BTC as fantasy – a 14x increase from here – they're making a basic mistake...
While Tether’s USDT still dominates stablecoin supply, Circle's USDC has begun outpacing it in transaction volume – hitting new highs last month at more than twice Tether's level.
