Ethereum faced steep losses Friday after a security breach at Bybit drained an estimated $1.4 billion from the exchange. Bybit’s CEO confirmed on Feb. 21, 2025, that the platform lost a large portion of its crypto reserves in the attack,…
Updated Feb 21, 2025, 3:55 p.m. UTCPublished Feb 21, 2025, 12:58 p.m. UTC The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will vote soon on a deal negotiated with Coinbase to entirely drop the agency’s legal pursuit of the crypto exchange, according to the…
The Hedera-based Origin launchpad has emerged from stealth to provide a democratized investment vehicle through curated investment opportunities. According to the press release, the novel launchpad enables investors to get in on the ground floor, access promising projects via a…
BTC traded as high as $99,497.97 before retreating, but the dominant digital asset has been gradually edging towards the $100,000 barrier, with bears getting squeezed on shorts to the tune of $128.35 million. Bitcoin (BTC) is edging closer to the…
Feb 20, 2025, 5:10 p.m. UTC The European Central Bank (ECB) said it is looking to develop a way of settling distributed-ledger technology (DLT) transactions with fiat currency as it expands its work on the key feature that underpins the blockchain…
Feb 20, 2025, 4:54 p.m. UTC The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unit tasked with chasing bad guys in the crypto space will be smaller and called something significantly different, the agency said Thursday, further cementing its trend away from an…
Crypto fund manager Canary Capital’s spot Litecoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has been added to the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) ETF list. The listing under the ticker LTCC appeared on its official website, late Thursday. The investment firm filed…
Feb 19, 2025, 5:53 p.m. UTC Nearly every big name in the crypto industry has signed onto a letter calling for Congress to eliminate a U.S. tax policy they say could jeopardize decentralized finance (DeFi) technology by shoehorning much of that…
Key Takeaways: President Donald Trump restated his claim that he intends to make the United States a global “crypto capital” at the Future Investment Initiative Institute conference—financed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund—in Miami on Wednesday night. “Bitcoin set multiple…
Feb 19, 2025, 3:19 p.m. UTC EToro said it received regulatory approval under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework and will soon be able to provide cryptocurrency trading and custody services across the region. The trading platform announced the…