“What’s interesting is that if you look at what happened over the past year, you actually saw a lot of bipartisan work getting done. Crypto, in many ways, has been treated as a bipartisan issue for quite some time,” he said. “You saw major bills in stablecoin, major bills in market structure advancing, and so it looked like this was a purple issue.” Source
Month: August 2024
Solana-Based Pump.Fun Rakes in Highest Daily Fees, But Users are Unhappy
Pump lets anyone issue a token for around $2 worth of Solana’s SOL in capital, after which they choose the number of tokens, theme, and a meme picture to go along. When the market capitalization of any token reaches $69,000, a portion of liquidity is deposited to the Solana-based exchange Raydium and burned. Source BitcoincryptoexchangeExchanges CryptoX Portal
HODLing Resurgence? 374,000 Bitcoin Transfer Ignites Recovery
Despite the recent decline, Bitcoin is seeing an interesting shift in investor behavior, with analysts like Crypto Tony betting on possible bullish momentum in the near future. Though the market is still highly unpredictable, a tendency for consolidation and holding on to gains is slowly showing up. Related Reading Crypto Tony recently commented that a break above could show the beginning of a new uptrend, referring to $58,300 as the key resistance level. The most recent data from Glassnode makes a move in this direction, which indicates that though the…
TON Ventures Raises $40M to Invest in Consumer Apps Built on TON and Telegram
The organization has already raised $40 million and plans to invest in early stage consumer applications in the TON ecosystem with “mass appeal,” the press release said. The investors in the fund are “mainly [composed] of individual, private investors, who want to support the long-term growth of the TON ecosystem,” the founders told CoinDesk in an email. Source
MetaMask Starts Rollout of Its Crypto Card with Mastercard (MA), Baanx
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Goldman Sachs reveals $418m bet on Bitcoin ETFs
Leading global investment banking firm Goldman Sachs has disclosed it holds $418 million in several Bitcoin-related exchange-traded funds. The revelation came through Goldman Sachs’ latest 13F filing for the second quarter of 2024, released on Aug. 14. According to the filing, the investment bank holds nearly 7 million shares worth more than $238 million in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin (BTC) Trust. It also holds 1.5 million shares of the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin ETF, currently worth almost $80 million, as well as 940,443 Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF shares with a market…
7 Indicted in $300,000 Queens Bitcoin Theft, Say Prosecutors
Seven individuals have been indicted for stealing over $300,000 in bitcoin from a Queens resident. The charges against them include grand larceny, money laundering, and identity theft, stemming from a lengthy investigation into a cryptocurrency wallet hack. Using advanced hacking techniques, the group allegedly stole the bitcoin and now face potential sentences of five to […] Original
Expert Dives Into Tether’s Role As The Key
The Bitcoin (BTC) price has broken free from its recent consolidation phase, breaching the $60,000 mark and setting its sights on critical resistance levels essential for propelling the cryptocurrency to new all-time highs (ATHs). This surge comes amid emerging bullish momentum in the world’s largest digital asset. However, the key to continuing this breakout is the influential role of Tether (USDT), the largest stablecoin in the crypto ecosystem. USDT Minting Could Propel Bitcoin Beyond $73,700? According to technical analysts, such as Doctor Profit, the continuous minting of USDT by its…
Ethereum Set for Overhaul of Crucial Programming Standard With ‘EVM Object Format’
“The problem that I see is that now performing these operations, performing these verifications, these checks, is also part of the consensus,” he told CoinDesk in an interview at the Ethereum Community Conference in Brussels. “That means if there’s a bug in there, and we deploy something that passes our verification, but has a bug in it, then it will later on crash in a very unexpected way.” Source
Crypto Exchange Crypto.com Secures Multiyear Sponsorship Deal With Soccer’s UEFA Champions League
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