United States President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that most Americans will receive a $2,000 “dividend” from the tariff revenue and criticized the opposition to his sweeping tariff policies. “A dividend of at least $2000 a person, not including high-income people, will be paid to everyone,” Trump said on Truth Social. The US Supreme Court … Read more
Wall Street’s appetite for crypto is stronger than ever. BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF has broken inflow records. Fidelity and VanEck have followed suit with new spot products. Even the Nasdaq has hinted at expanding its digital asset trading infrastructure. Yet, for all this momentum, almost none of it actually happens onchain. Institutions now treat crypto as … Read more
Cryptocurrency prices nudged higher after U.S. President Donald Trump said a direct tariff dividend of “at least” $2,000 will be paid out to most Americans. In a Truth Social post, Trump said the U.S. is generating “trillions of dollars” in tariffs and said the funds would both reduce the country’s $37 trillion national debt and … Read more
For decades, research in distributed systems, especially in Byzantine consensus and state machine replication (SMR), has focused on two main goals: consistency and liveness. Consistency means all nodes agree on the same sequence of transactions, while liveness ensures the system continues to add new ones. Still, these properties do not stop bad actors from changing … Read more
The U.S. Congress has long been trying to grant the Commodity Futures Trading Commission more direct authority over crypto spot markets, but the agency is forging ahead without it, and interim chief Caroline Pham is in talks with regulated exchanges to launch spot crypto products as soon as next month, according to people with direct … Read more
French crypto hardware wallet provider Ledger is considering a New York listing as surging cyberattacks drive record demand for its hardware devices, sending revenues soaring into the triple-digit millions in 2025. CEO Pascal Gauthier recently told the Financial Times that the company, founded in Paris in 2014, is seeing its best year yet as both … Read more
Key points: Bitcoin faces an important weekly close with several key price levels on the line. The bull market’s future is still at stake, a trader says, amid ongoing whale selling. Risk assets should gain from a reduction in US trade tariffs or the end of the government shutdown. Bitcoin (BTC) wedged itself in a … Read more
U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded inflows of $240 million on Thursday, marking the first day of positive flows since Oct. 28, according to data from Farside. No outflows were reported from any ETF provider, ending a six-day streak of consecutive outflows. The longest stretch of outflows since the ETFs launched remains eight consecutive trading days, … Read more
The crypto market compounded a negative week with a continued drawdown on Friday. Bitcoin BTC$102,216.34 dropped to $100,600 and ether ETH$3,424.81 is languishing as $3,270. The move appears to be in line with the wider crypto market trend of late, which has seen BTC lose 18% of its value over the past 30 days. Both … Read more
By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin BTC$102,002.95 and other major cryptocurrencies fell in the last 24 hours with the CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index retreating 2.17%, caught in the pullback that has gripped global markets this week. The broader retreat began with a sell-off in tech-heavy equity indices like the Nasdaq 100, … Read more