Bitcoin (BTC) avoided US selling pressure Thursday as US Thanksgiving provided bulls with key relief. Key points: Bitcoin retains $90,000 as support into the Thanksgiving weekend after hitting weekly highs. BTC price expectations flip bullish, with even $100,000 on the cards again. Futures markets show a leverage washout laying the foundations for a more sustainable … Read more
Countries around the world are grappling with inflation, and in many places, investors and everyday savers are turning to crypto to protect their savings. The early 2020s saw a sharp uptick in global inflation rates amid government stimulus programs during the COVID-19 epidemic. Supply chain disruptions led to increased costs for businesses, and food and … Read more
A malicious Google Chrome browser extension is letting users trade on Solana, while quietly skimming a fee from every swap into the creator’s wallet. According to a Tuesday report by cybersecurity company Socket, the Google Chrome extension allows users to trade on Solana (SOL) from their X social media feed. Unlike typical wallet-draining malware that … Read more
Blockchains do not stand still. Fee markets shift, validator sets evolve, and new modules arrive to handle everything from privacy to crosschain messaging. Behind each of those changes sits a simple starting point: an idea that someone cared enough to write down. Cointelegraph Decentralization Guardians (CTDG) was created to give those ideas a more reliable … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) rallied 13% from multimonth lows at $80,000, reclaiming the $90,000 mark on Wednesday. This move came as a surprise as BTC staged a pre-holiday rally, increasing hopes of a continued upward move going into Thanksgiving weekend. Key takeaways: Bitcoin stages a pre-Thanksgiving rally and seeks to defy its historical average return of -0.8% … Read more
Ethereum crossed a threshold in execution capacity as its mainnet block gas limit reached 60 million, the highest level the network has seen in four years. Data tracker Gas Limit Pics showed that in November, over 513,000 validators signaled a 60 million gas limit, pushing the Ethereum network over the threshold needed for the protocol … Read more
Representatives of European Union member states reached an agreement on Wednesday in the Council of the EU to move forward with the controversial “Chat Control” child sexual abuse regulation, which paves the way for new rules targeting abusive child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on messaging apps and other online services. “Every year, millions of files … Read more
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon asked a US judge to cap his prison time at five years for his role in the collapse of the Terra ecosystem, which erased about $40 billion from crypto markets in 2022. In a court filing on Wednesday, Kwon argued that a longer term would be excessive given the punishment … Read more
XRP’s (XRP) newly launched exchange-traded funds (ETFs) absorbed nearly 80 million tokens on Monday, sharply outperforming Solana’s recent ETF debut. The rapid inflows have pushed total assets under management (AUM) to $778 million, according to data from XRP Insights. Key takeaways: Grayscale and Franklin Templeton’s XRP ETFs absorbed nearly $130 million on product launch. Sustained … Read more
Equities and cryptocurrency markets may be setting up for a year-end reversal as liquidity improves and US monetary policy turns more supportive following the end of the record government shutdown. Improving market conditions will be driven by the increasing liquidity, which has already returned $70 billion into markets since the end of the US government … Read more