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Cointelegraph.com - 03:51 Aug 10, 2025
Vitalik Buterin's net worth could be bolstered even more as crypto traders are eyeing new all-time highs for Ether in just days. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has regained his status as a ten-figure crypto holder just days after Ether crossed the $4,000 price level for the first time in eight months, according to a blockchain intelligence firm. “Vitalik Buterin is now an onchain billionaire again,” Arkham said in a post on Saturday. At the time of publication, Buterin’s portfolio is valued at approximately $1.04 billion, holding 240,042 ETH alongside smaller stakes in cryptocurrencies such as Aave Ethereum (AETHWETH), WhiteRock (WHITE), Moo Deng (MOODENG), and Wrapped Ethereum (WETH). On Saturday, Ether (ETH) climbed another 6.38%, reaching as high as $4,332 following its return to $4,000 on Friday — a level not seen since December 2024 — while Bitcoin’s (BTC) share of the crypto market cap declined. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 00:31 Aug 10, 2025
Changpeng Zhao asks the court to dismiss a lawsuit by FTX, Tom Lee says $250,000 is still in sight for BTC this year: Hodler’s Digest Crypto investors may be underestimating the extent of the US securities regulators new stance on crypto, meaning that crypto prices would still have room to grow, according to Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan. US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins published a speech he gave on July 31 at the America First Policy Institute about how blockchain will be integrated into the financial markets. Hougan on Tuesday said the speech caught him off guard and left him wondering whether Atkins vision had been priced into the market. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:01 Aug 09, 2025
Hines said he is leaving the crypto advisory group to rejoin the private sector but will continue to support the cryptocurrency industry. Bo Hines, the executive director of US president Donald Trump’s White House Crypto Council, announced he is stepping down on Saturday. Hines, who was appointed by the president to lead the advisory group in December 2024, said he is stepping down to rejoin the private sector and thanked the crypto community for its “unwavering” support. He wrote on Saturday: Although a successor has not yet been named, independent crypto reporter Eleanor Terrett said that Hines’ deputy director, Patrick Witt, will likely be appointed to the position. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:33 Aug 09, 2025
The cypherpunk ethos is retreating from the limelight, as institutions and centralized players take center stage, driving new narratives. Traditional financial institutions are increasingly shaping the narratives in the crypto sector, and are poised to benefit the most from the current trends, according to Arthur Azizov, founder of B2 Ventures, a private “alliance” of crypto services and financial tech companies. Azizov told Cointelegraph that this market cycle has been dominated by institutional investors, investment vehicles like exchange-traded funds (ETFs), governments, and stablecoin issuers. He also said that big banks will accelerate this trend in the near future, once they have regulatory clarity to interact with crypto, saying it will only be a “matter of months” between the time these banks receive regulatory clarity and the time it takes them to launch a stablecoin. Azizov added: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:02 Aug 09, 2025
The new law will allow investment banks, which can underwrite companies, issue securities, and are institutionally focused, to hold BTC. Regulated Bitcoin (BTC) investment banks are coming to El Salvador, following Thursday’s approval of El Salvador’s Investment Banking Law, which classifies investment banks under different regulations than commercial banks. Investment banks will now be allowed to hold BTC and other digital assets on their balance sheets and offer crypto services to “sophisticated” investors, the equivalent of accredited investors in the United States, Juan Carlos Reyes, president of El Salvador’s Commission of Digital Assets (CNAD), the government’s crypto regulatory agency, told Cointelegraph. He added: The law encourages foreign investment in El Salvador and positions it as an emerging hub for finance, proponents of the newly adopted law say. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:00 Aug 09, 2025
Crypto influencers democratize early-stage investing by offering transparent, accessible opportunities that VCs keep behind closed doors for the elite. Opinion by: Tom Bruni, editor-in-chief and vice president of Community, Stocktwits Since the dawn of the dot-com boom, it’s almost impossible to hear the term “VC” (venture capitalist) without immediately conjuring up an image of Sandhill Road — and the ultra-exclusive air that surrounds the famed strip of land in Northern California that’s responsible for pouring billions into tech startups each year. Silicon Valley VCs and their global counterparts have sat behind literal and metaphorical closed doors for decades. Only a few people decide which innovators and trends receive access to vital funding. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:47 Aug 09, 2025
Ether price excitement boils over as giant targets combine with a countdown to new all-time highs — but ETH/BTC still has a long way to go. Key points: Ether is on track to reach $20,000 as a lifelong price channel stays relevant, says a popular trader. ETH may even break beyond the channel for the first time in history. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:38 Aug 09, 2025
A week after selling $8.3 million in ETH, Arthur Hayes bought back at a higher price, telling Crypto Twitter he’ll “never take profit again.” BitMEX co-founder and Bitcoin billionaire Arthur Hayes has bought back into Ethereum just a week after selling a large tranche. Onchain data shows that Hayes offloaded 2,373 Ether (ETH), worth roughly $8.32 million at the time, when the token was trading near $3,507. The sale, which occurred about a week ago, locked in profits before Ether’s latest rally. In a reversal, the crypto analyst moved out $10.5 million in USDC (USDC) across multiple transactions on Saturday, with the stablecoins directed toward purchasing ETH at prices above $4,150, significantly higher than his earlier exit point. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:21 Aug 09, 2025
VivoPower shares surged over 32% after announcing a $100 million plan to buy Ripple Labs shares, expanding its exposure to Ripple equity and XRP tokens. Nasdaq-listed solar power company VivoPower International PLC saw its shares jump 32.12% to $5.10 on Friday after the company announced plans to purchase $100 million worth of privately held Ripple Labs shares, expanding its XRP-focused digital asset treasury strategy. The move, which follows two months of due diligence, will see VivoPower acquire Ripple shares directly from existing shareholders, pending approval from Ripple’s executive management, the company said in a Friday press release. “Our portfolio construction strategy is to buy a combination of Ripple shares and XRP tokens. This will allow us to optimize for yield maximization while also minimizing the weighted average cost of XRP acquired,” Kevin Chin, executive chairman and CEO of VivoPower, said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:09 Aug 09, 2025
Bitcoin price could surge in 2025 driven by global money supply growth, ETF adoption, and retail inflows. Key takeaways: Record global money supply growth is a big tailwind for Bitcoin. Spot Bitcoin ETFs could soon surpass gold holdings, boosting BTC’s reserve-asset status. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:05 Aug 09, 2025
Trump-linked World Liberty Financial is weighing a $1.5 billion Nasdaq-listed treasury company to hold WLFI tokens. World Liberty Financial, the Trump family-backed crypto venture, is exploring the creation of a publicly traded company to hold its WLFI tokens, with a fundraising target of roughly $1.5 billion. The structure of the deal is still being finalized, but major investors in technology and crypto have been approached, and discussions are said to be progressing quickly, according to a Friday report from Bloomberg. The move would place World Liberty among a growing wave of digital-asset treasury companies, which are publicly traded firms holding crypto reserves. These companies have raised an estimated $79 billion in 2025 for Bitcoin purchases alone, per the report. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 05:49 Aug 09, 2025
BlackRock hasn’t filed for a Solana ETF, but ETF analyst James Seyffart says they shouldn’t be allowed to jump in at the last minute after other issuers’ hard work. The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, should not be allowed to launch a Solana exchange-traded fund (ETF) simultaneously with the US-based issuers who have already filed for one, says ETF analyst James Seyffart. “That’s messed up,” Seyffart told NovaDius president Nate Geraci in a video published to YouTube on Saturday, discussing a hypothetical scenario where BlackRock — despite no filing so far — submits an application at the last minute for a spot Solana (SOL) ETF and launches alongside firms that applied months ago. “That shouldn’t happen,” Seyffart said. “These smaller issuers, these guys have spent so much time working with the SEC getting the paperwork right,” he added. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 02:23 Aug 09, 2025
Eric Trump warned his 5.8 million followers to “stop betting” against Bitcoin and Ether as the price of Ether surpassed $4,000 for the first time in eight months. Ether (ETH) saw the largest short position wipeout of the day across all crypto assets on Friday as its price surpassed $4,000, with some analysts saying it could be setting the stage for a short squeeze. The rally led to Eric Trump, son of US President Donald Trump, taking a jab at bearish traders. “It puts a smile on my face to see ETH shorts get smoked today. Stop betting against BTC and ETH - you will be run over,” Trump said in an X post on Friday. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:50 Aug 08, 2025
NFT DApps drew slightly more active users than DeFi in July, even as DeFi liquidity hit a record $270B. Locked liquidity on decentralized finance (DeFi) applications reached a record $270 billion in July, partly driven by tokenized stocks growth. DappRadar’s data shows the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi protocols jumped 30% month-over-month, while active wallets for tokenized stocks soared from roughly 1,600 to more than 90,000, pushing their market cap up 220%. Meanwhile, NFT trading volumes jumped 96% to $530 million during the month. The average NFT price also doubled to around $105 as more users engaged with the market. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:29 Aug 08, 2025
Though possibly not its first foray into crypto, Harvard’s reported stake in BlackRock's Bitcoin exchange-traded fund represented a significant investment. Harvard Management Company, the entity responsible for managing the university’s $53-billion endowment fund, has reported a multimillion-dollar investment in BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). In a Friday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Harvard disclosed holding about 1.9 million shares of the iShares Bitcoin (BTC) ETF as of June 30. The BTC exposure was valued at more than $116 million, making it the fund’s fifth-largest investment for the period after Microsoft, Amazon, travel technology company Booking Holdings, and Meta. Harvard reported its endowment fund was $53.2 billion as of June 30, 2024, making it the largest among US universities, ahead of Yale, Stanford and Princeton. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:55 Aug 08, 2025
ChatGPT-5 users on social media platforms were critical of the update, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to the complaints, pledging improvements. ChatGPT users flooded social media forums with negative comments about the platform's latest model released on Thursday, saying the upgrade was overhyped by OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman. Users on Reddit criticized the company's ChatGPT-5 model, saying it had a more restrictive rate limit and lacked the ability to switch to previous AI models, with some threatening to switch to competing AI platforms. Altman responded to the feedback in an X post: Altman called GPT-5 “a major upgrade over GPT-4” and a “significant step” along the road to artificial general intelligence (AGI) during Thursday’s official rollout. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:24 Aug 08, 2025
Court documents showed there was at least one 90-year-old, and some people had “set in stone” their opinions about the Tornado Cash co-founder’s criminal charges. A 12-person jury, including a member who celebrated her 90th birthday, deliberated this week in the complex case of Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash. They convicted Storm on one count of running an unlicensed money transmitting business, while remaining unable to reach a decision on other charges. According to court documents released on Thursday by Judge Katherine Failla, jurors in the Storm case sent several requests for information before declaring they were deadlocked on two of the charges. Among the letters to the judge were requests for transcripts of the testimony of several witnesses, clarification on what led to the indictment, and a specific query on the wallets included in North Korean sanctions. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:00 Aug 08, 2025
A bullish regulatory tailwind is forming as the SEC clarifies its stance on crypto, liquid staking and tokenization — with institutional investors and IPOs responding in kind. The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) historic shift in favor of digital assets is emerging as one of the most significant developments of the current Trump administration. Yet, investors may not fully grasp what it means for crypto adoption and its integration into the core of American financial services. That’s one of the key takeaways from recent remarks by Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan, who believes markets are underestimating the regulatory tailwinds now forming in the world’s largest economy. Project Crypto, the SEC’s initiative to modernize its approach to digital assets, was unveiled last week in direct response to the White House’s Working Group on Digital Assets. The program aims to create clearer, more consistent crypto regulations going forward. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:35 Aug 08, 2025
Four state-level lawsuits against three celebrities and individuals tied to the EMAX token may proceed after a California judge’s ruling. Investors who were parties to a 2022 lawsuit may be closer to pursuing legal action against celebrities who promoted the EthereumMax (EMAX) token after a recent decision by a California judge. In a Wednesday filing in the US District Court for the Central District of California, Judge Michael Fitzgerald granted a motion allowing class-action lawsuits filed in four US states to move forward, but denied the request for a nationwide class against EMAX promoters. The order will allow cases involving investors who purchased EMAX between May 2021 and June 2021 to continue in New York, California, Florida and New Jersey. “Plaintiffs have demonstrated that the proposed state classes comport with the requirements of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,” the Wednesday filing reads. “However, the risk of inappropriate extraterritorial application of California and Florida law is simply t... -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:05 Aug 08, 2025
Donations to the embattled software developer increased after Wednesday’s partial verdict and the possibility of a retrial. Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s legal defense fund is seeing an influx of donations as the software creator’s defense team preps for a possible retrial on charges of money laundering and sanctions violations. The Ethereum Foundation on Thursday said it will match up to $500,000 in donations to Storm’s defense fund. The jury in Storm’s trial was deadlocked — unable to reach a unanimous verdict — on two of the three counts against him, finding the developer guilty of running an unlicensed money transmitter. “Mistrials by hung juries do not trigger double jeopardy, so the defendant can be tried again,” Brandon Ferrick, general counsel at Douro Labs, told Cointelegraph. Read more
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