Bitcoin (BTC) opened the trading week flat above $94,000 as traders waited for news from Beijing on the progress of a trade deal with the U.S. The CoinDesk 20 (CD20), a measure of the performance of major digital assets, was down 1.5%, trading below 2,700. “XRP and Bitcoin bounced back from the tariff shocks in…
Honeymoons and luxury vacations could soon be outpaced by crypto as the main draw for the island nation of Maldives. A Dubai-based family office plans to invest up to $8.8 billion in a blockchain-focused financial hub in the Maldives, part of an effort by the island nation to expand beyond its reliance on tourism and…
US President Donald Trump gave clashing answers to whether he has profited from the crypto memecoin he launched in January, just days before he re-entered the White House. In a wide-ranging interview with Kristen Welker on NBC News’ Meet the Press released on May 4, Trump said he was “not profiting from anything” when asked…
Dogecoin started a fresh decline from the $0.1850 zone against the US Dollar. DOGE is now correcting losses and might find face hurdles near $0.1740. DOGE price failed to clear $0.1880 and corrected gains. The price is trading below the $0.1750 level and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There is a key bearish trend line…
Senator Warren says the Senate’s stablecoin bill would let the president “profit” off his own crypto as foreign powers buy in. Senator Warren says the Senate’s stablecoin bill would let the president “profit” off his own crypto as foreign powers buy in. Law and Order Decrypt
The US central bank will announce its interest rate decision this week, and it is highly expected that things will remain the same. Optimism picked up a little last week as stock and crypto markets made gains as tariff concerns eased slightly. However, the unexpected Q1 GDP contraction shook market sentiment. This appears to be…
Early Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem says he’s working on bringing back the Bitcoin faucet — a website that hands out Bitcoin to whoever solves CAPTCHA tasks, normally used to distinguish humans from machines. Shrem shared his new Bitcoin (BTC) faucet website — 21million.com — in a May 4 X post, which mimics the first-ever Bitcoin…
Crypto exchange OKX has brought its decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator back online with new security upgrades after it was paused in March to prevent further misuse by the North Korean hacking crew, the Lazarus Group. OKX founder and CEO Star Xu said in a May 4 statement to X that the DEX aggregator, OKX Web3,…
The proposed shift in architecture could simplify Ethereum while enhancing its zero-knowledge capabilities. The proposed shift in architecture could simplify Ethereum while enhancing its zero-knowledge capabilities. , Technology Decrypt
The Australian crypto industry has called on the newly reelected Labor government to urgently make digital asset legislation a top priority to ensure Australia doesn’t fall further behind global markets. The incumbent Australian Labor Party was returned in a landslide on May 3, picking up 54.9% of the two-party-preferred vote, against the Liberal and National…
