Current Date:February 23, 2025

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Powell’s Interest-rate Antibiotics Could Succeed

There has been renewed speculation in recent days about the U.S. Federal Reserve’s commitment to its rate-hiking cycle. Fed...

Indian Central Bank Publishes Concept Note on its CBDC, Digital Rupee

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India's central bank, has published a 50-page concept note for the introduction of...

Will Comatose Bitcoin Market Come Alive After NFP Data?

Traders love volatility, which has recently gone missing from the bitcoin (BTC) market. The leading cryptocurrency by market value...

First Mover Asia: The Crash of Three Arrows Capital’s Starry Night Portfolio Shows NFTs Lack of Staying Power; Bitcoin Regains $20K After Earlier Drop

Good morning. Here’s what’s happening: Prices: Bitcoin fell below $20K in its ongoing tango with the psychologically important threshold...

Lido’s stETH Token Expands to Layer 2 Networks Optimism and Arbitrum

Lido, the leading liquid staking solution on Ethereum, said Thursday it will support a wrapped version of its popular...

CFTC’s Regulation by Enforcement Needs to Change, Commissioner Says

Holding decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) accountable is “tough” when there isn’t one figure at the helm and the rules...

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Invested $31.3M in Bankrupt Data Center Compute North

One of the largest bitcoin (BTC) miners, Marathon Digital (MARA), said it had invested $10 million in convertible preferred...

Celsius’ Top 3 Execs Cashed Out $56M in Crypto Before Bankruptcy

Crypto lender Celsius’ top three executives withdrew $56.12 million in cryptocurrency between May and June 2022, right before the...

US CFTC as Crypto’s Regulatory Savior? Crypto Firms Might Not Like What They Get

Just because Rostin Behnam is the rare government official who can casually drop a comment that suggests a future...

Web3 Gaming Has a Long Way to Go Before It Becomes Mainstream, Survey Says

There’s a lot of money going into Web3 gaming. In the last year, hundreds of millions of dollars have...

What’s Going On With Ethereum’s MEV-Boost?

Soon after the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) blacklisted the Tornado Cash mixer program in August,...

Italy Has a Registry of 73 Unvetted Crypto Firms

ROME — Italy may be rubber-stamping crypto firms’ applications to operate in the country without running proper checks to...

NFT Firm Seeks US Election Commission’s OK to Market Campaign Souvenirs

In the grand political tradition of campaign buttons – think “All the Way with LBJ” or “I Like Ike”...

Rare David Bowie NFT Collaboration With FEWOCiOUS Sells for $127,000

A non-fungible token (NFT) in The Bowie Estate’s exclusive collection with OpenSea sold on Monday night for 96.5 ETH,...

Court Rules CFTC Legally Served Ooki DAO Through Help Bot

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) can serve a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) through a website help bot and...

Citi Says Decentralized Crypto Exchanges Are Winning Market Share From Centralized Peers

Decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges (DEXs) have grown faster than centralized exchanges (CEXs) over the past two years, Citi (C) said...

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