Bitcoin (BTC) eyed $79,000 into Sunday’s weekly close as crypto markets continued to be guided by the US-Iran war. Key points: Bitcoin circles a key weekly level into the weekly close, with the highest …
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Prediction markets are ditching the ‘casino’ label to become a regular part of how people track the news
by adminby adminPrediction markets are shifting from one-off bets tied to major events into platforms driven by daily user engagement, according to a new report from Bitget Wallet in partnership with Polymarket. Trading volume on Polymarket …
In Bitcoin news today, the Federal Reserve held the federal funds rate at 3.5%–3.75% on Wednesday in what was almost certainly Jerome Powell’s final meeting as chair, with an 8-4 FOMC vote revealing a …
Recovered tokens will be sent to a DeFi United multisig wallet, redeemed for ETH, and used to cover the shortfall across affected markets. Aave has announced a recovery plan following an April 18 exploit …
The artificial intelligence (AI) boom is often framed as a story of capital, code, and compute. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast capital expenditures of about $650 billion in 2026. At the same time, …
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Crypto PAC Fellowship Halts Support of Texas AG for Senate: Report
by adminby adminThe Fellowship political action committee (PAC), which launched claiming to have more than $100 million from crypto-aligned backers, has reportedly backed out of an advertising deal to support Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in …
Recent progress in quantum computing has reignited a long-standing concern for bitcoin BTC$77,556.58. A sufficiently powerful cryptographically relevant quantum computer could, in theory, break bitcoin’s elliptic curve signatures, exposing coins with visible public keys, …
XXI higher by 8% on merger plans with Strike and bitcoin miner Elektron Energy
The shares of Twenty One Capital (XXI), the bitcoin-focused firm, are up over 8% in after-hours trading on Wednesday, after majority shareholder Tether Investments proposed a merger with Strike and Elektron Energy. Tether Investment, …
Microsoft is not betting on crypto lightly. M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, led a $20 million investment in Space and Time back in 2022. Now that bet is paying off in a direction nobody saw …
The Arbitrum Security Council has frozen $71 million in ETH directly traceable to the Kelp DAO exploit, with the council’s published statement confirming that the frozen funds cannot be moved without a subsequent action …