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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 -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:38 Aug 08, 2025
Ukraine has had some regulatory starts and stops when it comes to crypto, though momentum for a regulatory bill has picked up since 2024. Ukraine’s parliament plans to conduct the initial reading of a crypto regulation bill by late August, according to government officials. The legislation, if approved, could establish a legal framework for digital assets aligned with European standards. “The preparation of a draft law on taxation of transactions with virtual assets is currently in the final stage,” Danylo Hetmantsev, head of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy, told Cointelegraph. “It is estimated that its submission for the first reading in the Verkhovna Rada is scheduled for the end of August 2025.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:11 Aug 08, 2025
Bitcoin could challenge the $120,000 to $123,218 resistance zone but crossing it may be a tough ask for the bulls. Key points: Bitcoin has made a brilliant comeback but is expected to face significant resistance in at $120,000. Ether looks strong on the charts and is expected to challenge the $4,094 level, where sellers are expected to step in. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:14 Aug 08, 2025
Ether taps $4,000 for the first time in eight months in a further win for ETH bulls and the broader altseason, while Bitcoin dominance fades. Key points: Ether hits $4,000 for the first time since December 2024 in a key milestone for the year. ETH price optimism continues with Ether taking chunks away from Bitcoin’s crypto market cap dominance. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:00 Aug 08, 2025
Web3 AI projects often force blockchain integration to access capital, harming innovation by prioritizing ecosystem compatibility over practical AI solutions. Opinion by: Samuele Marro, PhD student in machine learning at the University of Oxford The Web3 AI space has fallen into a trap. Somewhere along the way, “decentralized AI” became synonymous with “blockchain AI.” This false equivalency actively harms innovation. Excellent decentralized AI projects contort themselves into blockchain frameworks, not because it makes technical sense, but because that’s the only way to access Web3 funding, expertise and communities. The blockchain-first mentality isn’t just limiting what decentralized AI could become; it’s cannibalizing it. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Aug 08, 2025
Bitcoin’s resurgence as an institutional asset is reshaping crypto venture capital, but July also spotlighted tokenization, stablecoin infrastructure and settlement startups. The crypto venture capital landscape has made a decisive pivot back to Bitcoin, driven largely by its growing success as an institutional asset. As Cointelegraph reported, the emerging Bitcoin (BTC) DeFi sector attracted $175 million across 32 VC deals in the first half of the year. At the same time, Bitcoin treasury companies are injecting billions into the market by acquiring BTC for long-term strategic reserves. Beyond Bitcoin, several recurring VC themes remained prominent in July. Investors continued to back startups in tokenization, stablecoin infrastructure and settlement technology. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:22 Aug 08, 2025
Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s conviction misapplies money transmitter laws, crypto industry group says. The conviction of Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm could set a “dangerous” precedent for developers and privacy, legal observers in the crypto space say. Storm was found guilty of operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business on Wednesday, Aug. 6. The crime carries a maximum sentence of five years. The jury could not reach a consensus on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to violate US sanctions. Federal prosecutors could still retry him on these two charges. While Storm is yet to face sentencing, other crypto-related cases, including former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and OneCoin co-founder Karl Greenwood, were tried and found guilty in the same district and ended up serving prison time. Read more
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