Five years after Robinhood (HOOD) stunned users by halting trading in GameStop (GME) and other meme stocks, CEO Vlad Tenev said blockchain-based stocks could help ensure it doesn’t happen again. In an article on X marking the anniversary of the January 2021 trade freeze, Tenev blamed the chaos not on bad actors, but on poor […]
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Criminal actors seized $158 billion in digital assets last year, marking a sudden increase in the value of illicit activity after years of decline, according to a report published by TRM Labs analyzing 2025 data. However, the increase in total still represents a continued decline in the percentage of overall crypto activity tied to bad
Avalanche (AVAX) was also a top performer, up 1.6% from Tuesday.
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The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned a number of adverts from crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) on Wednesday, saying they suggested investing in crypto could help viewers escape financial problems and misrepresented the risks of crypto investing. The adverts, released in August, highlighted the financial pressures affecting some UK households and carried the phrase “If
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WisdomTree is expanding its tokenization efforts to Solana, adding blockchain to the list of networks supporting its real-world asset (RWA) products. The New York-based asset manager, best known for its exchange-traded funds, said Wednesday that institutional and retail investors will be able to create, trade and hold its full suite of tokenized funds on Solana
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Bitcoin BTC$89,823.45 Trading was little changed Wednesday after gaining yesterday as the dollar weakened. Ether ETH$3,026.62 gave up part of his winnings. Instead, advances came from other parts of the altcoin market. Hyperliquid’s native HYPE token extended gains, adding 11% since midnight UTC, and liquid staking token Solana JTO$0.3888 surged 32%, its biggest one-day gain
Laser Digital, the digital assets arm of Japanese investment bank Nomura, said it has filed an application with the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to open a federally regulated national trust bank, joining a number of crypto firms seeking to phase out asset management services for the digital assets sector. The
The crypto market is experiencing one of its rarest trends in recent times, and it doesn’t look good for bitcoin valuations. BTC$89,301.77 and other tokens. This trend is the contraction in the market capitalization of the two main dollar-indexed stablecoins, Attached USDT$0.9988 and USD coin (USDC). Their combined market value fell to $257.9 billion, the
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Stablecoins go beyond crypto experimentation and are part of a reliable financial infrastructure, OKX said, announcing the launch of a new debit card in Europe. “Momentum is quickly gaining momentum,” Erald Ghoos, CEO of OKX Europe, told CoinDesk. “Regulators are putting real safeguards in place, big banks are not only taking them seriously when it
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Dogecoin rose slightly over 24 hours, but failed to build momentum, with late-session selling reversing the heavier short-term structure and keeping the price stuck in consolidation. News context Dogecoin largely trades as a proxy for broader crypto sentiment, with no token-specific catalyst driving price action. The session was defined by consolidation rather than conviction, with
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