Ethereum has witnessed a notable surge in the past week as its Layer 2 TVL nears the $30 billion milestone with sustained momentum. As shown by L2Beat, the cryptocurrency, second only to Bitcoin in market capitalization, has shown an upward trajectory. It is worth highlighting that assets and tokens associated with its ecosystem have also...Read More
Popular trader Peter Brandt has adjusted his forecast for Bitcoin’s peak in the ongoing bull market. The commodity and foreign exchange trader for over thirty years now has predicted that the leading crypto asset will hit $200,000, a significant increase from the earlier projection of $120,000. Brandt anticipates that the ongoing bullish cycle is poised...Read More
Bitwise research analyst Ryan Rasmussen projects a 50% probability of spot Ethereum ETFs receiving approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in May. Furthermore, he anticipates Bitcoin reaching $88,000 by the conclusion of 2024. Ethereum ETF Approval Hangs in the Balance In a recent interview on Yahoo Finance, Rasmussen emphasized that ETFs are...Read More
As Bitcoin notched over 10% daily gains, the trading volume of nine BTC ETFs reached a record high. “New Nine” recently launched spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), except for Grayscale’s GBTC, experienced a daily trading volume of $2.4 billion. This marked a new peak and nearly twice the usual daily volume, as per analysis by...Read More
The crypto market may be at the onset of an altcoin season, say analysts at crypto exchange Bitfinex, due to Ether’s (ETH) latest performance. According to this week’s Bitfinex Alpha report, the resurgence in ETH’s value is rekindling investor interest in the broader altcoin market, indicating a shift in focus from Bitcoin (BTC) to other...Read More
The cryptocurrency market is heating up. Many charts are going verticle as Bitcoin’s price topped $57K for the first time in years. As CryptoPotato reported, Bitcoin has been sidelined for a while, but the cryptocurrency exploded by more than 9% in the past 24 hours alone, bringing most of the market with it. This has called for...Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) has surged above $56K, an all-time high achieved almost three years ago on February 20, 2021. The last time BTC was at these levels was in November of the same year. Monday 26th has been one of the most intense days for the crypto industry, with the two leading assets, BTC and ETH,...Read More
According to attorney Scott Johnsson, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may greenlight an Ethereum (ETH) spot ETF as soon as May 2024. Johnsson estimates that approval could be expected by mid-2025 if this timeline is unmet. Spot Ethereum ETF Approval May Follow BTC’s Timeline In his post on X, Johnsson highlighted the SEC’s...Read More
Solana-based investment products had seen steady inflows throughout the year after intensive performance and reliability improvements. However, investor confidence took a hit due to a network outage lasting five hours earlier this month, caused by a bug that caused transactions to enter an infinite loop, thereby impacting the network’s functionality. Solana’s Troubles Continue Among altcoins,...Read More
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange BitForex has stopped all withdrawals for at least three days, leaving users puzzled and worried about the safety of their assets. This incident was revealed when blockchain sleuth ZachXBT flagged suspicious activity on the platform, sparking fears of a potential exit scam. Exit Scam Suspicions and Halted Withdrawals ZachXBT, in a...Read More
Could Bitcoin ETFs become larger investment vehicles than gold ETFs? Bloomberg analysts say it might happen in as quickly as under 24 months. Will Bitcoin Pass Gold? In a post to X on Monday, Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas outlined how Gold ETFs have been gutted in recent weeks precisely as Bitcoin ETFs have absorbed...Read More
After an impressive run, spot Bitcoin ETFs appear to have hit a snag as inflows saw a minor reduction. Lookonchain’s latest analysis reveals a concerning trend in the cryptocurrency market as Bitcoin ETFs experience a significant decrease in inflows. Bitcoin Inflows Hit Snag According to the provided data, only 18,477 BTC, equivalent to $951 million,...Read More
Ether’s (ETH) latest price rally and surge past the $3,000 level has been followed by whales on an accumulation spree. A tweet from on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain revealed that ETH whales withdrew over $64 million worth of the crypto asset in the last six days for different purposes, including staking. ETH Whales Withdraw $64.2M According...Read More
Ethereum prices reached a 22-month high of $3,125 during the Monday morning trading session in Asia. It is the highest price the asset has seen since April 2022. The move has added a further 2.5% gain to the price of ETH, which is now up 36% over the past month. Ethereum is currently leading crypto...Read More
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) included numerous wallet addresses associated with two individuals from Russia in its list of specially designated nationals. Artur Sungatov and Ivan Kondratyev faced charges linked to the deployment of ransomware, with their affiliation to LockBit, a ransomware syndicate that reportedly stole more than $120 million in...Read More
Amidst surging network activity, striking parallels between Dogecoin’s recent price action and its historical behavior in 2020 have emerged. Just as before, DOGE has broken out of a descending triangle formation and is now in a consolidation phase, reminiscent of its previous trajectory. In 2020, this pattern preceded an astounding surge of 28,770%. Crypto analyst...Read More
Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) have surpassed a staggering $50 billion cumulative trading volume since trading started in the United States on January 11. The milestone, achieved on Thursday, February 22, marks a 76.68% surge from the 28.3 billion cumulative volume recorded at the beginning of the month, according to data from BitMEX Research. $50B...Read More
Solana-based nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have reached a significant milestone, surpassing an all-time sales volume of $5 billion, according to data from CryptoSlam. This surge in activity marks a turnaround for the Solana blockchain, which struggled to gain traction in the NFT space just a few months ago. Solana Ecosystem Surges As of February 23, the...Read More
A U.S. federal judge has approved Binance’s guilty plea and a hefty $4.3 billion settlement deal for violating anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions laws through its cryptocurrency exchange. According to a Reuters report, the plea and the settlement were accepted on Friday, February 23. The Settlement Deal The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had announced...Read More
Zcash (ZEC) exploded roughly 30% weekly after Grayscale filed a request for a privacy-centered ETF that tracks companies from that sector, including privacy coins, AI, data security, and more. Grayscale approached the SEC this week with a proposal for a unique exchange-traded fund (ETF) focused on privacy and cybersecurity, the Grayscale Privacy ETF (PRVC), as...Read More
According to Tronscan data, Tron’s fee revenue soared to a record-breaking $1.758 million on February 20th. Tron’s revenue stems from fees levied on transactions, which are subsequently burned. This revenue is determined by multiplying the daily quantity of TRX burned by the closing price of TRX on CoinMarketCap. On the same day, the Tron network...Read More
European Central Bank advisors have described the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds in January as “the naked emperor’s new clothes” in their latest blog post. The advisors, Ulrich Bindseil, ECB Director General for Market Infrastructure and Payments, and Advisor Jürgen Schaaf, criticized Bitcoin, outlining its unsuitability as a means...Read More
Block, led by CEO Jack Dorsey, announced $66 million in gross profit from selling Bitcoin through its Cash App in the fourth quarter of last year. This marks a 90% increase from the previous year, according to the company’s earnings report released on Feb. 22. Block’s Bitcoin Revenue Soars to $2.5 Billion The report revealed...Read More
Recent analysis from on-chain intelligence platform CryptoQuant has found that large entities’ total bitcoin (BTC) holdings have grown to a level last seen in July 2022 due to their unwavering accumulation of the digital asset. According to CryptoQuant’s weekly crypto report, the BTC holdings of these entities have grown significantly from 3.694 million in December...Read More
Following the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval of the first eleven spot Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in the United States last month, Australian retail interest in Bitcoin has experienced a surge. The development has grabbed Australian investors’ attention, with 34% acknowledging awareness of the news. This has increased confidence in Bitcoin, with 25%...Read More
On Feb. 23, Bitcoin historian and journalist Pete Rizzo shared five emails from 2008 and 2009 between cryptographer Adam Back and BTC creator Satoshi Nakamoto. The first one from August 2008 is a discussion on Bitcoin four months before its official launch. “I’m getting ready to release a paper,” wrote the elusive Satoshi, who referenced...Read More
Over the past three years, the incidences of virtual asset-related crimes in Hong Kong have significantly increased. The cases reported amounted to 1,397, 2,336, and 3,415, involving HKD 824 million, HKD 1.704 billion, and HKD 4.398 billion, respectively, nearly tripling during this period. Law enforcement has gathered specific statistics for individual cases per the report...Read More
StarkWare, a blockchain firm developing layer 2 scalability protocol Starknet, announced that it is changing the token release structure set for STRK. The move comes after concerns from the community that the initial plan might enable the network’s investors to dump their holdings onto retail Starknet users. StarkWare Releases New Token Release Structure Initially, StarkWare...Read More
Major cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is seeking to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), arguing that the Commission was overstepping the boundaries of its regulatory authority. The SEC sued Kraken in November 2023, alleging that the crypto exchange co-mingled customer funds and listed assets deemed as securities on its platform....Read More
Donald Trump, former United States President and candidate in the upcoming elections, has taken a u-turn on his stance against Bitcoin, stating that he can live with it. During an interview with Fox News, the billionaire acknowledged that BTC, the leading digital currency, is getting a lot of attention and taking a life of its...Read More
