Tokenized versions of SPY, Google, and Robinhood’s own stock led a burst of on-chain trading activity over the past month, with Token Terminal data showing SPY on Robinhood Chain up by more than 1,300% in 30 days to an over $17 million market cap. The moves point to fast-growing retail and platform interest in tokenized […]
Bitcoin is trading above $79,000 after US spot ETFs pulled in a reported $730.9 million in a single day last week, their second-largest daily inflows of the year after the $843.6 million they drew in on January 14. Crypto analysis platform CryptoRus, in its latest market letter, framed this week as a test of whether […]
Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, will launch a meme coin called LAPTOP on Coinbase’s Base network on September 9, naming it after the laptop tied to a 2020 election controversy and reserving a fifth of the supply for wallets that lost money on Donald Trump’s TRUMP coin. The Wall Street Journal first […]
The exploiter linked to the third wave of attacks on Coldcard wallets has now moved 45% of the coins stolen, according to Galaxy Research. The firm said the funds have been transferred either to Ethereum through THORChain or into Coinjoin, in an effort to launder the stolen assets. During Wave 3, the exploiter created 293 […]
Crypto holders relied more on loans backed by digital assets as market conditions weakened in 2026, according to research from CryptoQuant. The report analyzed data from crypto lender CoinRabbit. It found higher borrowing activity among both retail and high-net-worth users. Borrowing Activity Rises Crypto-backed loans allow holders to access cash without immediately selling their digital […]
El Salvador has significantly reduced public participation in its Chivo e-wallet as part of changes to the government’s involvement in Bitcoin, according to the International Monetary Fund. The IMF said efforts are also underway to improve transparency around the country’s BTC holdings across its different wallets. No Public Funds Bought Bitcoin Majority ownership and operational […]
Given the nature of its blockchain, bitcoin was long considered to move around within a broader four-year cycle prompted by the halving, which takes place in general every four years. However, the pattern has been rejected in the past year or so, and popular on-chain analyst Willy Woo took the same approach in his latest […]
A Bank for International Settlements (BIS) working paper tests the XRP Ledger (XRPL) as a proof-of-concept for verifying official statistics on-chain, recording cryptographic fingerprints of public datasets that publish in three to five seconds and verify in one to two. The Working Paper No 1374 essentially asks how statistical agencies can give users an independent […]
The correlation between the leading cryptocurrency and the largest financial asset, gold, has climbed to its highest level since the 2020 pandemic, while its relationship with the Nasdaq has weakened significantly. The shift comes as concerns about debt, deficits, and currency debasement return to the spotlight after the latest developments in the US. Closer to […]
Standard Chartered extended its deliverable Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) spot trading to institutional clients in the United Arab Emirates on September 3, becoming the first Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) to offer the service in the country. The offering runs through Standard Chartered DIFC, the bank’s arm in the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC), […]