Chainlink price has made its way into a strong uptrend, climbing to $17.13 with a daily gain of 3.58% and a 19.55% weekly increase. The token’s price spike comes along with a wave of optimism surrounding blockchain utility, driven by Chainlink’s integration with Australia’s PayTo via Project Acacia. Moreover, the impetus also comes from growing …
Bitcoin first-timers have upped their BTC exposure by more than 2% in July, but mainstream interest worldwide is still barely perceptible, data reveals.
The completed $70 million public offering follows the GameSquare board of directors approved a $100 million ETH treasury initiative on July 9.
The US Marshals Service (USMS) appears to hold just under 29,000 Bitcoin, far lower than the more than 200,000 BTC many believed the government had in custody. The updated figure, confirmed via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by independent crypto journalist L0la L33tz on July 16, puts the government’s total at 28,988 BTC […]
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The Ethereum (ETH) price has made a strong comeback, pushing past a major resistance zone to trade above $3,400. This price movement signals growing bullish momentum, driven by strong institutional buying, rising investor confidence, and Ethereum’s increasing dominance over Bitcoin. As ETH breaks out from key levels, many are now watching closely to see if …
Arena launched in late 2023 as Stars Arena, an improved version of Friend.tech that transplanted the “buy a creator’s ticket, unlock a private chat” mechanic onto Avalanche. Arena was the first SocialFi app to incorporate additional creator tools like a public social feed, which created a more social experience compared to friend.tech’s gated Patreon Socialfi […]
Crypto firms must prepare for stricter rules by 2026 as AUSTRAC targets sector-wide financial crime vulnerabilities.
Crypto exchange Coinbase has launched a new initiative with its “Base App,” aiming to broaden access to the crypto economy. Unveiled on Wednesday, this application replaces the Coinbase Wallet and is designed to merge various functionalities, including wallet, trading, payments, messaging, and social media. Built on Coinbase’s proprietary blockchain network, Base, which operates on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, the app reportedly seeks to attract a wider audience beyond traditional cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Base App Launch According to CNBC, the Base App represents an opportunity to reach consumers who may not be primarily interested in buying or trading cryptocurrencies—a critical pivot given the company’s past over-reliance on trading revenues. Related Reading: BNB Price Stalls: Struggles to Resume Gains While Altcoins Rally To support the launch of the Base App, Coinbase introduced two significant features: Base Account, an identity verification system, and Base Pay, an express checkout tool designed for payments using the Circle-issued USDC stablecoin. During the unveiling event, Alex Danco, a product manager at Shopify, highlighted that “tens of thousands” of merchants can now utilize this feature, with plans for a broader rollout in the coming months. Additionally, Shopify intends to offer 1% cash back on USDC payments made through Base, further incentivizing usage. While initial enthusiasm for the Base network has primarily attracted developers and builders, notable interest is growing among larger financial entities. Recently, JPMorgan announced its plan to launch a deposit token on the Base blockchain, showcasing the network’s potential. Ambitious Goals For Coinbase The Base App is designed to enhance monetization options and greater control over their identity and data. As part of this initiative, Coinbase plans to fund creator rewards and waive USDC transaction fees within chat features, although significant revenue generation is not expected immediately. This launch comes at a time when the broader cryptocurrency industry is experiencing a surge in new products, driven by favorable policies from the Trump administration and anticipated regulatory clarity from Congress. Related Reading: Altcoin Season Index Spikes Above 30, But Bitcoin Dominance Remains High, What Next? Last month, Coinbase made headlines with the introduction of its first credit card in partnership with American Express, while Shopify rolled out USDC-powered payment solutions through Coinbase and Stripe. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has expressed ambitious goals for the company, aiming to position USDC as the world’s leading stablecoin, currently dominated by Tether’s USDT. He also envisions transforming Coinbase into the premier financial services app globally within the next five to ten years. As of writing, the exchange’s stock, COIN, is trading at $398, slightly down from its all-time high of $405, which was reached earlier in Wednesday’s trading session. Bitcoin (BTC) and other major cryptocurrencies have also shown significant bullish momentum, with prices reaching new records or levels not seen since earlier in the year. Featured image from DALL-E, chart from TradingView.com
Gaming, daily purchases, and travel bookings emerge as the leading categories where Gen Z users strongly prefer cryptocurrency.
While the crypto is waiting anxiously for the upcoming crypto bills to hit the space. One analyst is expecting blood on the Satoshi Street once the GENIUS Act becomes the law. In this context, crypto analyst Jacob King sounded the alarm over what he calls the “bloodiest event in Bitcoin’s modern history.” His warning centers …
Pakistan is getting serious about crypto and wants to follow in El Salvador’s footsteps. This week, Bilal Bin Saqib, head of Pakistan’s Crypto Council and special advisor to the prime minister, visited El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele to talk about Bitcoin adoption and building stronger crypto ties. Pakistan Following El Salvador Footsteps Bilal Bin Saqib, …
Bitcoin dominance charts moving downward may be a signal that the much-anticipated “altcoin season” is finally here, analysts said.
For years, crypto advocates have insisted that blockchains would one day power everything from messaging to micro‑payments. Coinbase now claims that the future is arriving, inside a single icon on your phone. On 16 July, the exchange quietly began rolling out “Base App,” a rebuilt version of its mobile wallet that mashes trading, payments, social media, […]
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Can a tiny slice of Bitcoin give you a share in the world’s wealth forever? Crypto analyst and author of “The Bitcoin Thesis”, Cole Walmsley, says yes. In a widely shared tweet, Walmsley calls Bitcoin “the greatest asymmetric opportunity in human history,” arguing that even 0.01 BTC, worth about $1,195 today, could be enough to …
Staking ETFs remain an uncertainty in the U.S., despite an easing regulatory environment under President Donald Trump’s pro-crypto administration.
Valued at just £60,000 ($77,400) at the time of the theft in 2017, the bitcoin is now worth around £4.4 million ($5.9 million).
Memecoin market cap hits $72B in July, driven by the Bonk memecoin’s 72% surge and LetsBonk launchpad’s rise.
The rot starts from the head.” This age-old proverb rings true in a shocking case from the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), where a former officer, Paul Chowles, was convicted of stealing a significant number of Bitcoins seized during the Silk Road 2.0 investigation. Chowles’ Role in the Infamous Silk Road 2.0 Case The Silk …
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has stirred up the crypto crowd once again, this time with a simple laughing emoji. His reaction came after a playful post on X, where a user offered $200 to Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, to crack open the Bitcoin wallets believed to belong to Satoshi Nakamoto. That single …
Crypto strategist Pentoshi put the market on notice in a late‑Tuesday post. “With XRP it held up for the past 7 months while most of the market nuked and kept this structure. It arguably has little resistance from here because it never spent time trading here on the verge of price discovery,” he wrote, adding that a cluster of regulatory and corporate tailwinds “is a pretty good setup into decent tailwinds and so far has traded very cleanly.” By Wednesday afternoon XRP was changing hands at $3.08, up roughly 27 percent on the week and hovering just below its highest close since the 2021 cycle high. Daily volumes have topped US $8.5 billion and momentum indicators on major venues show relative‑strength indexes back in “buy” territory, underscoring Pentoshi’s contention that overhead supply is thin. Upcoming XRP Price Catalysts The first fundamental catalyst is Washington’s sudden enthusiasm for federal stablecoin rules. The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act sailed through the Senate in June and secured the votes it needs in the House this week after an eleventh‑hour whip by President Donald Trump. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told reporters, “We’re back on track … all three bills will be encompassed in the work we do today,” referring also to the CLARITY and Anti‑CBDC acts. Related Reading: XRP Becomes Top 3 Crypto After ProShares ETF Approval, Can It Flip ETH? Ripple, which launched its dollar‑backed RLUSD last December, is already positioning for that environment. On 2 July the company filed for a US national bank charter and a Federal Reserve master account that would let it custody RLUSD reserves directly at the Fed. Two weeks later it confirmed plans to secure an EU electronic‑money‑institution licence under MiCA; a company spokesperson said Ripple aims “to become MiCA‑compliant” because it sees “significant opportunity in the European market.” The second driver is the near‑resolution of Ripple’s grinding courtroom saga. On 26 June, when US District Judge Analisa Torres rebuffed a joint motion by Ripple and the SEC that would have vacated her permanent injunction and sliced the civil penalty from $125 million to $50 million, ruling the parties had “not come close” to establishing the “exceptional circumstances” required to alter a final judgment. The next day CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced on X that Ripple will drop its own cross‑appeal and “close this chapter once and for all,” adding that he expects the SEC to withdraw its appeal as well. For now, however, Torres’s injunction and the full $125 million penalty remain in force, leaving any definitive resolution, however, the end has never been closer. Related Reading: XRP Countdown Begins—Analyst Predicts Explosive Run To $11 With the litigation roadblock largely cleared, exchange‑traded‑fund issuers have accelerated filings. ProShares on 15 July rolled out 2× leveraged futures funds tied to Solana and XRP, noting that spot‑based products remain in the SEC queue. Only a week earlier, the agency issued new disclosure guidance meant to streamline crypto‑ETF approvals. Trump Media & Technology Group has even asked the SEC to sign off on a “blue‑chip” basket ETF that would hold bitcoin, ether, solana and xrp, signalling bipartisan pressure to open the ETF spigot further. Ripple is also arming itself for a buying spree. “Our M&A people are very busy,” chief technology officer David Schwartz told DL News in late June, revealing “multiple potential acquisitions in various different stages.” The firm has already paid $1.25 billion for prime broker Hidden Road this year and is building an on‑ledger lending protocol slated for Q3, moves that could deepen XRP liquidity and justify higher valuations. Each strand—the GENIUS Act, the bank charter and MiCA licences, the SEC’s retreat, the ETF pipeline, and Ripple’s war‑chest for acquisitions—converges on the same conclusion: regulatory opacity is fading just as institutional distribution channels open. Whether that is enough to propel XRP through the previous all-time high at $3.84 from January 2018 remains to be seen, but the technical setup is also looking quite strong, as Pentoshi concludes. At press time, XRP traded at $3.14. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
Curve DAO has stunned the crypto market with a meteoric 79.32% price rally, over the past week and climbing 28.39% in the last 24 hours alone. With trading volume soaring by 72.78% to $727.58 million and the price reaching an intraday high of $0.993, CRV has officially broken free from months of consolidation. That being …
BitMine Immersion’s holdings has doubled to 300,657 ETH as investors like Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund bet on Ethereum treasuries.
The TRX price has shown remarkable resilience since April 2025, outperforming several major altcoins amid global market setbacks. Despite the stability, investors still missed the spike seen in December 2024, with Trump’s win being the strongest factor. Now in H2 2025, the factors have increased enormously, like bullish sentiment building around the major acquisition of …
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Institutional demand for Ethereum is surging among Wall Street firms amid the refocusing and restructuring of the Ethereum Foundation.
Spot Ethereum ETFs recorded their highest single-day inflows to date on July 16, with investors injecting a combined $726.74 million into nine US-listed funds. Data from SoSo Value highlights renewed institutional interest in Ethereum, with BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) capturing the largest share of capital. The fund took in nearly $500 million in a […]
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Bilal Bin Saqib met El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele to discuss Bitcoin adoption and signed a Letter of Intent for crypto collaboration.
Cysic, which offers a Layer 1 network for zero-knowledge proof generation and verification, will join Succinct as a multi-node prover.
After rising rapidly over the weekend to hit new all-time highs, the Bitcoin price seems to have hit a brick wall above $120,000, sparking a correction. While this is expected to be a short correction, a notable development involving an 8-year trendline that has marked the top of previous cycles has emerged. If this trendline resistance holds and Bitcoin fails to break it, then it could mean that the top is in, and what usually follows is a drawn-out bear market. 8-Year Trendline Suggests Bitcoin Top Is In Crypto analyst MartyBoots, in an analysis on TradingView, caught a test of a an 8-year trendline which began back in the 2017-2018 cycle, marking the top of multiple bull markets. This trendline continued into the next major bull market and in the 2020-2021 bull market, the trendline once again marked the cycle top, with Bitcoin peaking at $69,000. Related Reading: This Analyst Predicted Bitcoin’s Rally To $120,000 Months Ago, Here’s The Rest Of The Forecast Presently, the Bitcoin price has once again come in contact with this trendline, and the rejection from here does suggest that this trendline could be the real deal. After hitting above $123,000, Bitcoin was promptly pushed back downward from this level as sell-offs and profit-taking became the order of the day. For this trend to be complete, though, there are a number of things that would need to happen first. For example, the analyst explains that investors should watch for the weakly RSI divergence turning bullish. Additionally, a decline in volume and more rejection wicks for Bitcoin would be confirmation that the price has topped. Marty also explained that the price touching this trendline for a third time increases the odds of it actually playing out the same way it has in the past. If this trendline does mark the top once again, then it could signal the start of another bear market. As the analyst explains, a top marked by this trendline has in the past “triggered multi-month correction and Bear Markets.” Still A Chance For Bullish Continuation The test of this trendline does not necessarily mean that the Bitcoin price has to top at this level, because there is still a chance of bullish continuation. As the analyst explains, a decisive break above the trendline would turn this level into support and trigger further upside. Related Reading: Ethereum Forms ‘Pure Cup And Handle’ Pattern After Hitting $3,000, Analysts Set New Targets In addition to this, there is also a lot of buying pressure on the Bitcoin price despite the profit-taking. More importantly is the fact that very large orders await at the $114,000 level. This shows a lot of demand for BTC, something that could drive the price upward as the cost basis for investors remains on the rise. Nevertheless, the analyst advises caution at this level until there is a confirmation either way. “Risk-management alert: consider tightening stops, reducing leverage, or hedging until trendline fate is resolved,” Marty said in closing. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com
XMTP is relaunching inside Coinbase's new Base app, moving from an optional tool to native infrastructure.