The biggest decentralization move Bitcoin mining has seen in years has happened quietly, with seven of the largest pools agreeing to support the same open standard. Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool, SpiderPool, MARA Pool, Block Inc and DMND have all joined the Stratum V2 working group, the group announced last week. Stratum V2 is an open source […]
XRP finally broke the $1.45 area that had capped rallies for weeks, and the move was rapid. Volume came all at once during the breakout, which generally indicates broader positioning rather than retail chasing, although the rally began to lose momentum as the price approached the psychological $1.50 level. News context • Traders had been
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A Bitcoin whale came back to life on Sunday, moving coins worth $40 billion to a new address after more than a decade of inactivity. The transfer took place around 7:16 p.m. UTC, according to blockchain tracking service Whale Alert. The coins have been moved from the address “1KAA8GGhVjjUjVTz1HKAjCyGNzAKQd882j” to “bc1qm6m6d33d02edr0k8yj9jgt027zl6dvx6thjrxy”. The wallet has been
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White House adviser Patrick Witt said it was possible the Clarity Act could become law by July 4, while Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand pushed for an ethics provision in the Market Structure bill. Consensus Miami 2026 ended with a fiery debate over the role of prediction markets, and much more happened at our first conference in
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Executives from Google Cloud and PayPal said Thursday at CoinDesk’s Consensus conference in Miami that the next wave of internet commerce will take place on crypto rails because AI agents structurally cannot use traditional financial accounts. Richard Widmann, global head of Web3 strategy at Google Cloud, said the existing Internet user
Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible tokens are rising again, fueling hopes of a broader recovery in the struggling NFT market as speculative appetite returns to the crypto space. Price floors, or the lowest value of Yuga Labs’ flagship collection, have risen from around 5 ETH to 10 ETH over the past month, while apecoin
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LayerZero said late Friday US time that it “made a mistake” by allowing its own verification infrastructure to secure high-value crypto assets in a vulnerable setup, marking a notable change in tone after weeks of blaming developer Kelp DAO for a $292 million hack linked to North Korean attackers. The admission marks a notable shift
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BlackRock (BK), the world’s largest asset manager overseeing $14 trillion in assets, is ramping up its efforts in tokenized finance with two new filings tied to blockchain-based U.S. Treasury and money market funds. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, the asset management giant proposed launching the BlackRock Daily
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For most people, trading cryptocurrencies like bitcoin BTC$80,399.78comes down to a simple question: will prices go up or down? But there is another dimension to trading, and that is volatility, a measure of how volatile prices are in any direction. This is already an extremely popular transaction on the stock markets, and CME now wants
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Swiss activists to abandon bid to get Swiss National Bank (SNB) to hold bitcoin BTC$80,863.28 in its reserves after collecting only about half of the 100,000 signatures needed to trigger a national referendum. The initiative aimed to amend the Swiss constitution so that the SNB would hold bitcoins alongside gold and foreign exchange reserves. The
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