Lido DAO proposed using up to 10,000 stETH to buy its own government token at what it calls a historically depressed valuation. That equates to about $20 million at current ether prices near $2,000. The problem is where to use it. Onchain LDO liquidity sits at around $90,000 at the depth of plus-or-minus 2%, according […]
Midnight, a blockchain backed by Charles Hoskinson, went live on Monday, designed to fix what the Cardano founder described as crypto’s core design flaw by making it private, simple and safer to use. Crypto has spent more than a decade solving the wrong problems and failing to break into the real world economy, Hoskinson said
Jack Dorsey’s Square announced Monday that it began automatically enabling bitcoin payments for millions of eligible U.S. small businesses, marking one of the most aggressive pushes yet to integrate crypto into mainstream commerce. The Block (XYZ) subsidiary said businesses can now accept bitcoin with no additional setup requirements and with transactions instantly converted to U.S.
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Zcash (ZEC) is betting that the rise of AI surveillance will make financial privacy more valuable, and the crypto market is underpricing that opportunity, according to asset manager Grayscale. “Zcash is nearly 10 years old but may be entering a new chapter. The use of its staking technology is increasing and new capital is entering
American Bitcoin (ABTC), the Donald Trump family-backed company, has hit 7,000 BTC in its bitcoin BTC$66,910.51 reserve, which is about tripling those assets since its Nasdaq debut in September 2025, according to the company. The firm also reported a more than doubling of its satoshis per share. share, a measure that reflects the amount of
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Crypto-linked stocks are nearing a bottom heading into first-quarter earnings, according to Wall Street brokerage Bernstein, which said the sector’s roughly 60% pullback from 2025 highs has created “big companies at big discounts.” “The combination of geopolitics and temporarily weak crypto sentiment offers big discounts to crypto stocks,” analysts led by Gautam Chhugani said in
On Tuesday, March 19, the SEC issued joint guidance with the CFTC to “finally” provide clarity on how securities laws apply to digital assets. On many issues, including staking and meme coins, the SEC’s new guidance is a welcome development and a marked improvement from the Gensler days. It also rightly acknowledges that the agency’s
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For the first time in six years, bitcoin BTC$67,431.56 hashrate, the total computing power that secures the network, fell during the first quarter. It is currently down about 4% year-to-date, hovering around 1 zettahash per share. second (ZH/s). Over the past five years, the frequency has increased from around 100 exahashes per second (EH/s), a
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BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) made its biggest weekly purchase of either (ETH) this year, adding 71,179 ETH and extending a month-long buying rally, even as crypto prices remain under pressure. The purchase, worth about $143 million at current prices, lifted the company’s total holdings to over 4.73 million ETH, about 3.92% of the token’s supply,
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Almost half of all bitcoin BTC$67,489.61 in circulation is now worth less than it was bought for, according to data from the Bitcoin Impact Index, which jumped sharply last week as stress returned across all segments of the market. The index, which measures financial stress for bitcoin user cohorts based on onchain behavior, ETF and
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