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With payments company Stripe’s recent $1.1 billion acquisition of stablecoin platform Bridge.xyz sending shockwaves through the crypto payments sphere, attention is turning to the next generation of stable payment infrastructure providers. Among them is BlindPay, winner of the Consensus 2024 hackathon and batch company Y Combinator 2025 (W25) which takes a distinct approach to the […]

PK Press Club — Bitwise, a cryptocurrency asset manager, recently submitted an application to the Delaware Department of State: Corporations Division, seeking to register a Dogecoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF). a digital currency widely recognized as the first memecoin, boasts a market capitalization close to $52 billion. Memecoins have attracted increased attention of late, following the

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of the leaders and laggards of the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3,809.52, down 4.3% (-172.06) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. One of the 20 assets is trading higher. Leaders: ETC (+2.1%) and ETH (-1.4%). Lagging behind: SOL (-8.8%)

PK Press Club — Needham & Co. said its “Crypto Euphoria Needham Diagram” (CEND) reached its highest levels since inception, indicating that market sentiment for cryptocurrencies is “very high right now » and approaches “extreme euphoria”. The CEND Index, which tracks various metrics related to the crypto market cycle, recorded a reading of 64 this

Animecoin, the governance token tied to the Azuki non-fungible token (NFT) project, debuted at a fully diluted value (FDV) of $1.2 billion, with the tokens trading at $0.12 on HyperLiquid. The total supply of the token is set at 10 billion, and holders of the Azuki NFT can claim the airdrop. Users reported that the

By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless otherwise noted) Bitcoin and most major cryptocurrencies are weaker after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a proxy for institutional activity, denied reports of listing futures linked to XRP and SOL. Traditional markets are also holding their breath in anticipation of the Bank of Japan’s expected interest rate hike on

Tortola, British Virgin Islands, January 23, 2025, PK Press Club Nibiru, a secure and high-performance blockchain, has successfully finalized the code for its upcoming Nibiru EVM (Nibiru V2) upgrade. “This milestone marks a key milestone in the evolution of Nibiru. Softly launching an initiative like this is about doing small things well to make a

The outlook for bitcoin (BTC), the world’s largest cryptocurrency, is positive and its price is expected to remain high in 2025, German bank Deutsche Bank (DB) said in a report on Wednesday. A more favorable regulatory and policy environment in the United States, growing institutional adoption, and looser monetary policy from the Federal Reserve are

Ethereum Layer 2 protocols process transactions faster than ever, with Coinbase’s BASE at the forefront of this advancement. According to data from Growthepie.xyz, the cumulative transaction throughput for Layer 2s jumped to 29.64 million gas units per second (Mgas/s), the highest pace ever recorded. BASE comes first with 67% of the total. Gas is the

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 23, 2025, PK Press Club Bybit, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is pleased to announce new rewards opportunities via bbSOL staking on Bybit Launchpool. Bybit users now have the ability to participate in mining via bbSOL staking and access various prize pools, all with just a