1+ hour, 35+ min ago  (355+ words) Google searches in the U.S. for "bitcoin zero" surged to a record 100 on the company's relative interest scale in February, coinciding with bitcoin's BTC$68,529.89 slide toward $60,000 after a 50%-plus drawdown from its October all-time high. The spike could be read as…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (304+ words) Centralized business structures are continuing their creep into decentralized finance (DeFi), with the builders of tokens Magic Internet Money (MIM) and SPELL on Wednesday pitching a traditional legal structure to supplant the DAO overseeing the stablecoin with a nearly $700 million market…...

2+ hour, 5+ min ago  (511+ words) Bitcoin's BTC$68,485.06 violent selloff earlier this month may be giving way to a late-stage bear market phase, but investors shouldn't expect a quick recovery, according to Vetle Lunde, head of research at K33. "Current conditions closely resemble late September and mid…...

2+ hour, 44+ min ago  (367+ words) SBI Holdings, one of Japan's largest financial conglomerates, is launching its first blockchain-based bond aimed at individual investors, a 10 billion yen (~$64.5 million) issuance that combines traditional fixed-income features with blockchain settlement and crypto perks. Called the SBI START Bonds, the…...

4+ hour, 22+ min ago  (202+ words) The price of bitcoin BTC$68,350.22 fell slightly on Saturday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced an additional increase to global tariffs, despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision that invalidated earlier trade actions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In a…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago  (1259+ words) A fully automated trading bot executed 8,894 trades on short-term crypto prediction contracts and reportedly generated nearly $150,000 without human intervention. The strategy, described in a recent post circulating on X, exploited brief moments when the combined price of "Yes" and "No…...

6+ hour, 35+ min ago  (202+ words) Nexo is set to return to the U.S. market, saying it has officially rolled-out a suite of digital asset offerings and trading infrastructure from the U.S.-based Bakkt. The company's U.S. product lineup includes fixed and flexible yield programs, an integrated crypto exchange,…...

7+ hour, 5+ min ago  (457+ words) It stirred some painful memories for those who suffered through the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC). In August 2007, two Bear Stearns hedge funds collapsed after suffering heavy losses on subprime mortgage-backed securities, while BNP Paribas froze withdrawals in three funds, citing…...

7+ hour, 12+ min ago  (698+ words) Decentralized applications (also known as "dapps) provide services similar to those offered by typical consumer applications, but they use blockchain technology to grant users more control over their data by eliminating the need for centralized intermediaries to manage the data,…...

8+ hour, 4+ min ago  (594+ words) Lebanon hit the wall when banks locked accounts tight. Dollar savings got stuck, then devalued hard into a pound that kept crashing. Over 90 percent are gone. Lines at ATMs turned into fights. Protests broke out everywhere. Money sent from family…...