Bitcoin BTC$74,089.02 hit a one-month high above $75,000 in early US trading hours on Tuesday, up 6% over the past 24 hours to $75,300. The move is drawing increasing attention from analysts, who told CoinDesk that the level could mark a key change in the current market structure. “A clean break above $75,000 would not […]
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The XRP Ledger has added native support for zero-knowledge (ZK) proof verification by integrating with Boundless, a ZK proof network, in what the company claims is the first such deployment on the ledger. The move aims to enable financial institutions to conduct private transactions on the public blockchain while complying with regulatory requirements. It addresses
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The Ethereum Foundation is doubling down on its efforts to address one of the ecosystem’s most critical needs: security. On Tuesday, the organization unveiled a new initiative aimed at addressing a persistent challenge in crypto development: the high cost of smart contract security audits. Through its “Audit Grant Program,” the foundation partners with leading audit
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Bitcoin BTC$74,248.99 started the day with a promising breakout chance, but the rally stalled at a familiar brick wall that has kept prices in check for more than two months. After briefly surpassing $76,000 – a key resistance level – the biggest crypto reverse price, falling below $74,000 later in the session. It still maintained
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Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is adding XRP to its Rakuten Pay app, allowing its 44 million users to use Ripple’s cryptocurrency as a payment method at more than 5 million merchants across the country. In an announcement via He said they will also be able to purchase XRP with Rakuten points and hold it in
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Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee for Federal Reserve chairman, has filed his 69-page financial disclosure with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, clearing the final bureaucratic hurdle before his confirmation hearing, now expected next week. The filing reveals combined assets with his wife of at least $192 million – but it’s the crypto-specific holdings buried
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CoW Swap, a decentralized trading interface, said on Tuesday it had temporarily halted its services after detecting a Domain Name System (DNS) hacking incident affecting its website, highlighting ongoing security risks at the front-end layer of DeFi platforms. In a post on X, the team said the attack occurred at 2:54 p.m. UTC and warned
Jeremy Barnum, chief financial officer of JPMorgan Chase, said stablecoins could evolve into a form of regulatory arbitrage if the new rules fail to bring them in line with traditional banking standards. Speaking on the bank’s first-quarter earnings conference call Tuesday, Barnum framed the debate less as a technological shift and more as a question
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The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) behind the Ethereum layer 2 network Scroll said it will propose a plan to disband its Security Council and transfer control of the network to an account managed by an internal team. The announcement of the proposal comes two months after Scroll’s main fee-generating decentralized application (dapp), crypto neobank Ether.fi,
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Bitcoin BTC$75,262.37 hit $75,900 mid-morning in the United States on Tuesday, marking its highest level since before February 5, when the price collapsed to $60,000. Optimism about developments in the Iran war is driving strong gains in risk assets and a continued decline in oil prices. The Nasdaq was ahead 1.2% and WTI crude was
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