Japan’s e-commerce giant Rakuten is adding XRP to its Rakuten Pay app, allowing its 44 million users to use Ripple’s cryptocurrency as a payment method with more than 5 million merchant locations across the country. In an announcement via X on Tuesday, Tatsuya Kohrogi, Ripple’s senior ecosystem growth manager, said Rakuten is also enabling its…
Bitcoin BTC$74,404.84 started the day with a promising chance for a breakout, but the rally fizzled out at a familiar brick wall that has kept a lid on prices for more than two months. After briefly topping $76,000 — a key resistance level — the largest crypto reversed course, slipping below $74,000 later in the…
Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, filed his 69-page financial disclosure with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, clearing the last bureaucratic hurdle before his confirmation hearing, now expected next week. The filing reveals combined assets with his wife of at least $192 million — but it’s the crypto-specific holdings buried…
Bitcoin BTC$74,690.80 touched $75,900 in mid-morning U.S. trading hours on Tuesday, marking its highest level since before February 5, when the price crashed down to $60,000. Optimism about developments in the Iran war is sparking solid gains across risk assets and continued declines in oil prices. The Nasdaq was ahead 1.2% and WTI crude was…
Goldman Sachs filed an application for a Bitcoin Premium Income exchange-traded fund (ETF) on Monday, marking one of the bank’s first direct pushes into the cryptocurrency investment space. The proposed fund would give investors exposure to bitcoin BTC$75,153.80 while generating income through a premium-based strategy. The structure relies on selling options tied to bitcoin-linked ETPs,…
High Roller Technologies Inc. (ROLR) stock more than doubled after the online casino operator said it planned to introduce an event-based prediction market in the U.S. in conjunction with Crypto.com. The Las Vegas-based company said Tuesday it will initially offer its customers Crypto.com Derivatives North America (CDNA) event contracts in the U.S. across finance, sports…
The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) behind Ethereum layer-2 network Scroll said it will propose a plan to dissolve its Security Council and transfer control of the network to an account managed by an internal team. The proposal announcement comes two months after Scroll’s top fee-generating decentralized application (dapp), crypto neobank Ether.fi, moved to Optimism’s OP…
Avalanche is moving beyond finance and into outer space, with a new network designed to verify telescope data in real time. SkyMapper has introduced a dedicated Avalanche-based network that cryptographically records observations from telescopes around the world, turning each data point into a secure, verifiable digital record. The new network, SkyMapper L1, collects data from…
Major cryptocurrencies are rising alongside gains in U.S. equities as oil prices shed the war premium built up in recent weeks. But broader market participation remains elusive and limited to only a few coins. Bitcoin BTC$74,545.19 and ether (ETH) have risen 5% and 9%, respectively, in the past 24 hours as digital asset treasury firms…
Bitcoin BTC$74,614.23 is pressing up against $75,000, a price it has repeatedly failed to surpass since early February, putting the broader crypto market on breakout watch after more than two months of range-bound trading. Traders have been building short positions around that level, betting on another rejection. Data from CoinGlass shows roughly $200 million in…
