Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley says the firmâs XRP spot ETF has moved into the top slot in the US market, edging out rivals on assets as the categoryâs liquidity and asset base continue to expand. âThe Bitwise XRP ETF (ticker: XRP) is now the largest XRP...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
US President Donald Trump formally sent the nomination of pro-Bitcoin Kevin Warsh to the US Senate on Wednesday, beginning a process that could replace Jerome Powell when his term ends in May. Reports say the White House filed paperwork to seat Wars...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya says Bitcoin has hit a structural limit that many market participants still do not want to confront: in his view, it lacks the qualities needed for central bank adoption. That matters because, in his framing, sovereig...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Earlier this week, the Executive Chairman of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), Michael Saylor, announced that the company had made another major Bitcoin purchase. The announcement, which was made on Monday, showed that despite the bearish market hea...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Binance continued to be the spot volume leader in the crypto sector during 2025, according to CryptoQuant’s annual report on exchanges. Binance Saw $7 Trillion In Spot Crypto Trading Volume In 2025 In a new thread on X, on-chain analytics firm...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
The Federal Reserveâs (Fed) decision this Wednesday to grant its first-ever master account to a crypto-focused institution has triggered swift opposition from major banking groups, intensifying tensions between traditional finance and the digital ass...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Shiba Inu is approaching a pivotal moment, and the latest derivatives data suggests that while top traders still lean bullish on the meme coin, their conviction is steadily fading. Rather than signaling a strong directional move, current positioning...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
The crypto industry took a significant step deeper into the traditional financial system on Wednesday after Kraken Financial, a Wyoming-chartered digital asset bank, was granted a Federal Reserve (Fed) master account. According to one expert, Ripple...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Ethereum is attempting to regain the $2,000 level as the broader crypto market shows early signs of relief after weeks of persistent volatility. The recent stabilization in price action has helped ease short-term selling pressure, allowing ETH to app...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Kraken, the USâs second-largest crypto exchange, has reportedly secured access to the Federal Reserveâs (Fed) core payment systems, marking a significant milestone as the first crypto firm to operate on the same infrastructure utilized by thousands o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
XRP has remained under sustained pressure as it struggles to reclaim the $1.50 level, reflecting a broader slowdown in market participation across several major altcoins. In recent weeks, price action has lacked momentum, with rebounds proving short-...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Coinbaseâs chief publicly accused big banks of trying to choke off parts of a law meant to clear the rules for stablecoins and other crypto products. Brian Armstrong said banks were pushing terms that would make the law less useful to crypto firms, a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
South Korean authorities and the ruling party agree on a 20% ownership ceiling for âmajor shareholdersâ in crypto and virtual assets exchanges, with a threeâyear implementation delay. From A Strict Proposal To Compromise After months of friction, the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Data shows the Bitcoin Open Interest witnessed its largest daily spike since July 2025 as the cryptocurrency’s price neared the $70,000 mark. Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Open Interest Shot Up Recently In a new post on X, on-chain analytics firm G...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Evernorth CEO Asheesh Birla is laying out an ambitious roadmap for institutional XRP adoption, with crypto analysts predicting that the positive results from this development could fuel a price surge to $100. With plans spanning treasury accumulation...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Blockstream Research says it has deployed post-quantum signature verification on Liquid, marking what it describes as the first time real transactions on a production Bitcoin sidechain have been signed with a post-quantum scheme. For Bitcoin infrastr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
The US government shifted seized Bitcoin on Monday just as military strikes on Iran sent crypto markets into a sharp sell-off. On-chain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence tracked three transfers totaling roughly 1.23 Bitcoin â about $22,550 â fr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, has issued one of his starkest warnings yet: if the network continues to limit itself to DeFi, obsessing over yields and political meme coins, it will betray Ethereumâs original mission. Ethereum Beyond DeFi In a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Paraguayâs state power utility ANDE has signed a memorandum of understanding with crypto infrastructure firm Morphware, setting up a formal cooperation framework that explicitly includes exploring Bitcoin mining as a national-level opportunity tied t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
After hitting an all-time high of $291 back in January 2025, Solana has begun what has been a year of steady declines. While there have been some relief bounces along the way, the main direction has been downward. At the time of writing, the price of...
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Core Scientific is the latest in the line of Bitcoin miners accelerating a pivot toward AI, selling 1,900 BTC and signaling that more is coming. Core Scientific Expects To Sell All Of Its Bitcoin Holdings In Q1 2026 Core Scientific has filed its annu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
A new chapter has unfolded in the ongoing LIBRA cryptocurrency scandal, as fresh judicial findings suggest that the relationship between Argentine President Javier Milei and LIBRA co-creator Hayden Mark Davis may have been closer than previously ackn...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Onâchain data shows that in the days after joint USâIsraeli airstrikes on February 28, Iranian exchanges saw a sharp spike in withdrawals, with roughly 10.3 million dollars in crypto fleeing. Iranâs Crypto Use Amidst Economical Collapse Crypto has be...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Bitcoin is navigating heightened uncertainty as escalating conflicts in the Middle East inject fresh volatility into global markets. Price action has become increasingly reactive to geopolitical headlines, while broader liquidity conditions remain fr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
A four-year legal battle came to a close this week when a federal judge ruled that Uniswap cannot be held responsible for fraudulent tokens that were bought and sold on its platform. The decision is being seen as a major win â not just for Uniswap, b...
