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Tether Abandons Plan To Freeze USDT On Five Chains
Stablecoin issuer Tether has abandoned its plan to freeze USDT smart contracts on five chains, saying the tokens will remain transferable but no longer be issued or redeemed. The revised plan impacts users on Omni Layer, Bitcoin Cash SLP, Kusama, EOS, and Algorand, Tether said on Friday after receiving feedback from members of these ecosystems. […]
Bitcoin Drop Driven By US Trade Deficit, China Banks
Key takeaways: Rising US trade deficits, insider stock sales, and weak Chinese banks heightened global investor caution. Whales and miners keep selling Bitcoin, but macroeconomic weakness remains the dominant driver. Bitcoin (BTC) dropped to its lowest level in 50 days, below $108,000. The sharp decline caught traders off guard and triggered $137 million in liquidations […]
Bitcoin whales rotate into Ether, despite $5B ETH validator exit queue
Bitcoin whales, or large tokenholders, are selling more of the world’s first cryptocurrency to gain exposure to Ether’s price. The move signals the market’s “natural rotation” into Ether (ETH) and other altcoins with more upside potential, Nicolai Sondergaard, research analyst at crypto intelligence platform Nansen, told Cointelegraph. The growing investor capital rotation occurred despite increasing […]
Why Bitcoin Pivots No Longer Guarantee a Stock Pump
The number of Bitcoin (BTC) treasury firms keeps on climbing, but announcing a BTC strategy is no longer a guaranteed way to pump a company’s share price. The model was pioneered by Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), now the world’s largest publicly traded corporate holder with 632,457 BTC at the time of writing. Since its first purchase […]
Bitcoin Price Weakness Returns as Crypto Markets Brace for US PCE Data
Key points: Bitcoin whales take the blame as “spoofy” transactions send BTC price action below $110,000. The Bitcoin “whale playbook” means that price is repeating behavior from earlier in August. US PCE inflation data is under the microscope as the next potential market mover. Bitcoin (BTC) fell nearly 3% Friday as attention again focused on […]
Cloud Mining vs Staking 2025
Cloud mining vs staking: Key differences In 2025, cloud mining and crypto staking are often mentioned in the same sentence when talking about passive crypto income, yet they represent two very different paths to earning. Cloud mining involves renting remote Bitcoin mining hardware, while staking means locking tokens to validate proof‑of‑stake networks. On trusted platforms […]
Crypto Applicants Often Fail In The Interview Process — This Is Why
Getting a job in crypto may be the hardest it’s ever been. The rise of AI has lured away once plentiful venture capital funding, and with a maturing industry, crypto companies are now more choosy than ever. A recent Coinbase summer internship program had room for just 0.3% of applicants, according to Coinbase CEO Brian […]
Crypto Asset Manager 21Shares Files for Spot SEI ETF
Crypto asset manager 21Shares has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch an exchange-traded fund tracking the price of SEI, following Canary Capital’s application in April. The S-1 registration statement filed with the SEC on Thursday proposes to use crypto price index provider CF Benchmarks to track the price of SEI, […]
Gryphon Stock Soars 231% Ahead of Coming American Bitcoin Merger
Gryphon Digital Mining is set to merge with Trump-linked American Bitcoin in September, with its shares already up 231% since the May announcement. Gryphon’s shares jumped 42.1% on Thursday to $1.75 from $1.35, according to Google Finance. The rally came as American Bitcoin’s largest investor, Hut 8 CEO Asher Genoot, told Reuters the merger between […]
Swap Crypto & Bridge Crypto in 2025: Symbiosis, Uniswap v4, 4-Swap
What are crypto swaps, crypto bridges and conversion tools? We are well past the halfway mark of 2025, and crypto swaps are everywhere. But is that just hype, or does the data back it up? And what exactly is a crypto swap, and how does it differ from bridging or exchanging? In Q2 2025, decentralized […]