Crypto

Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin said ETH-based digital asset treasuries will become a “Berkshire Hathaway-style” vehicle for the decentralized economy. Inspired by Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin playbook, Joseph Lubin says Ethereum treasury companies can provide outsized returns on yield and investment opportunities to their Bitcoin counterparts. Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph at Token2049 in Singapore, the Ethereum co-founder unpacked his thesis for why Ether (ETH) digital asset treasuries (DATs) present superior opportunities to the Bitcoin (BTC) treasury movement popularized by Saylor’s Strategy Bitcoin play. “I’d much rather have something that potentially has more impact. It certainly is as solid as Bitcoin, and I would argue more solid because of the functionality and the organic demand for it to pay for transactions and storage,” Lubin said. Read more

The pair are accused of planning robberies that targeted holders of “significant amounts of cryptocurrency assets” from jail.

"Demand is extremely down, and the on-chain usage of PI is poor," one popular X user claimed.

AFL-CIO's opposition comes as the Senate rushes toward a year-end vote on legislation that would let banks trade crypto with FDIC backing.

BNB Chain traders made millions on new memecoins going parabolic, with one turning $3,500 into $7.9 million amid a surge in onchain trading activity. Cryptocurrency traders made millions of dollars on small-cap memecoins on the BNB Chain over the past week, signaling a renewed wave of speculative capital fueling the current market cycle. Among the most profitable investors is trader “0xd0a2,” who turned an initial investment of $3,500 into $7.9 million, generating a 2,260-fold return in three days, according to blockchain intelligence platform Lookonchain. Trader “hexiecs” turned a $360,000 investment into over $5.5 million by investing in the recently launched “4” memecoin, which went parabolic after an X post from Binance co-founder and former CEO, Changpeng Zhao. Read more

Short-term holders added 559K BTC as Bitcoin nears highs; on-chain data shows rising demand and falling exchange activity.

From TerraUSD’s crash to Yala’s YU, several stablecoins have failed to hold their peg. Here’s why depegging happens and the risks you can’t afford to ignore. Stablecoins are nearing a $300-billion market cap, but adoption remains limited due to risks around depegging, collateral and trust. The depegging of stablecoins such as NuBits (2018), TerraUSD (2022) and USDC (2023) has revealed vulnerabilities across both algorithmic and fiat-backed models. The collapse of TerraUSD wiped out roughly $50 billion in value and exposed the systemic fragility of algorithmic designs. Read more

Forward Industries staked its entire Solana treasury into a new validator, immediately joining the network’s top 10. Publicly traded Solana treasury company Forward Industries launched its first institutional-grade validator node on the Solana blockchain as part of its broader strategy to deepen its role within the Solana ecosystem.  The company announced the launch on Tuesday, saying that the validator runs on DoubleZero’s fiber network, which powers the validator and uses Jump Crypto’s Firedancer, a new independent Solana validator client.  Kyle Samani, chairman of the board of Forward Industries, said the move allows them to fortify Solana’s resiliency and help ensure that it remains “the standard for institutional adoption” in decentralized finance (DeFi).  Read more

The total market capitalization plunged below $4.3 trillion.

Gold’s climb past $4,000 has Schiff declaring Bitcoin’s rally a “bear market bounce” that could be poised for reversal.

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XRP trades near $2.85, testing key $2.72 support. Analysts warn of breakdown if it closes below $2.69, with $2.22 as next target.

The price of PancakeSwap's native token remains mostly unaffected as experts blame the attack on phishing and weak security.

Fear, uncertainty and doubt around Ripple’s cross-border payments token has increased, according to blockchain analytics.

The country's plans represent "one of the boldest experiments in tying physical identity to financial transparency," Decrypt was told.

Experts say altcoins lag as capital favors Bitcoin and Ethereum's liquidity, with any future rally being highly selective toward utility.

The regulator is developing a framework that could let crypto projects experiment under supervision instead of facing enforcement.