The contrast: The investor offered a harsh reality check for altcoins, which he dismissively refers to as “PooPoo coins.” O’Leary sold 27 positions in October, arguing that sovereign wealth funds and indexers only care about Bitcoin and Ethereum. He claims these two assets capture over 97% of the market’s alpha, making other tokens “worthless” to…
A banking application connected to World Liberty Financial Inc., a crypto firm partially owned by President Donald Trump, will proceed as normal, according to the chief of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, who rejected a request from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren to focus special scrutiny on the president’s potential conflict of interest…
Stablecoins moved more than $35 trillion on blockchain rails last year, but only about 1% of that was for real-world payments, according to a new report by the consultancy firm McKinsey and the blockchain data firm Artemis Analytics. Their analysis estimated that only $380 billion of activity reflected actual payments, such as paying suppliers, sending…
The Ethereum Foundation (EF), a nonprofit organization that supports Ethereum’s development, is turning its long running post quantum research into a public engineering push, forming a dedicated Post Quantum team and calling the effort a top strategic priority for the network. EF researcher Justin Drake said the new group will be led by Thomas Coratger,…
Bitcoin’s recent price weakness has revived the quantum-computing debate, with one high-profile investor arguing it’s already shaping market behavior — and on-chain analysts saying the real driver is more old-fashioned selling pressure. Gold and silver kept ripping on Thursday, with gold up 1.7% to a record $4,930 an ounce and silver jumping 3.7% to $96,…
U.S. authorities arrested former Canadian snowboarding star Ryan Wedding on Friday, taking down a suspected drug kingpin they said used cryptocurrency networks to move and launder proceeds from his criminal enterprises. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi called Wedding a “onetime Olympian snowboarder-turned alleged violent cocaine kingpin,” in a statement, and she said he’s been flown…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agreed to dismiss a lawsuit against crypto exchange Gemini on Friday, tied to the company’s defunct Earn product, saying the suit was no longer warranted. The SEC sued Gemini and Genesis Global Capital in 2023, alleging the companies had sold unregistered securities in the form of Gemini’s yield-bearing…
The latest draft of the major crypto legislation has begun to be targeted with amendments as the Senate Agriculture Committee approaches its hearing next week. Source link
Increasing transaction activity on Ethereum and Tom Lee’s continued buying bode well for the crypto, which has tumbled from 2026 highs in recent days, said Geoff Kendrick. Source link
Ledger is working with Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Barclays to list in New York, potentially tripling its last valuation, the Financial Times reported. Source link
