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Crypto Exchange Gemini Agrees to Pay $5M Settlement in CFTC Case

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Crypto exchange Gemini agreed to pay $5 million to settle a case with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission over allegedly misleading statements it made more than seven years ago…

U.S. Equities Flash Cautionary Signal for Bitcoin

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By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)It's still early in 2025, and already we're seeing a significant divergence between bitcoin and the S&P 500.BTC is looking to secure…

Coinbase (COIN) Granted Significant Advance in Court Dispute With Gensler’s SEC

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Coinbase Inc. has been given an unusual chance to skip ahead in a U.S. federal court dispute with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) when a judge granted the company's…

Ripple Aims to Boost RLUSD Stablecoin’s DeFi Utility with Chainlink

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Ripple, an enterprise-focused blockchain service closely related to the XRP Ledger (XRP), said Tuesday that it will use data provider Chainlink's (LINK) services to better integrate its RLUSD stablecoin with…

How Ethiopia’s Low Energy Costs Allow BIT Mining to Recycle its Bitcoin Machines

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Landlocked between six different neighbors in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia has approximately 120 million inhabitants, making it the second most populous nation on the continent, and a GDP of…

Agora’s Nick van Eck Is All-In on Stablecoins

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Having travelled extensively through many emerging markets, Nick van Eck, the CEO and co-founder of stablecoin issuer Agora, is keenly aware of the problems that currency debasement and a lack…

Arbitrum Awards Biggest-Ever Foundation Grant to Lotte, the South Korean Megacorp

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Arbitrum, the largest layer-2 network on top of Ethereum, has awarded its biggest-ever developer grant to Lotte Group, the multibillion-dollar South Korean conglomerate known for its vast portfolio of shopping…

Bitcoin’s (BTC) Potential ‘Head and Shoulders’ Pattern Points to a Sell-Off to $75K: Godbole

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After rallying over 50% since early November, bitcoin (BTC), the leading cryptocurrency by market value, looks to be carving out a pattern. If completed, this could see prices revisit the…

Nvidia’s (NVDA) Conference Fails to Reverse Crypto AI Token Downswing

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Artificial intelligence (AI) crypto tokens are failing to live up to their lofty 2024 goals despite Nvidia's (NVDA) recent conference sparking bullish sentiment among AI stocks in the traditional markets.Last…

U.S. CFTC Chair Behnam Makes Departure Official, Stepping Down on Inauguration Day

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With a formal departure announcement from U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Rostin Behnam, January 20 is now the official last day of both heads of the U.S. markets regulators.Behnam…