Jack Dorsey’s Square on Monday announced 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 into U.S….
American Bitcoin (ABTC), the Donald Trump family-backed company, has hit 7,000 BTC in its bitcoin BTC$66,685.64 reserve, marking roughly a threefold increase in these 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, a metric that reflects the amount…
On Tuesday, March 19, the SEC issued joint guidance with the CFTC to “finally” provide clarity about how the 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…
For the first time in six years, the bitcoin BTC$67,721.39 hashrate, the total computational power securing the network, fell during the first quarter. It is currently down around 4% year to date, hovering around 1 zettahash per second (ZH/s). Over the past five years, the rate has surged from roughly 100 exahashes per second (EH/s),…
Lido DAO proposed spending up to 10,000 stETH to buy its own governance token at what it calls a historically depressed valuation. That works out to roughly $20 million at current ether prices near $2,000. The problem is where to spend it. Onchain LDO liquidity sits at about $90,000 of depth at plus-or-minus 2%, according…
Prospects of interest rate rises are no longer just the U.S. story. Traders are now betting the Bank of Japan (BoJ) could tighten too as the resource-scarce nation faces inflation risks from the ongoing Iran war. Traders see a roughly 69% chance of the BoJ raising its benchmark borrowing cost at the April 28 meeting,…
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) The crypto market started the week on a positive note, but further gains may be limited as signs of fresh capital inflows remain weak. Ether (ETH) and solana (SOL) prices have risen over 3% since midnight UTC, with BTC up nearly 2% and XRP lagging at…
The Ethereum Foundation is stepping up its efforts to put treasury assets to work, with data from Arkham showing it staked more than 20,000 ETH on Monday, expanding its validator footprint even as yields hover below 3% and ether trades near $2,045. Arkham data shows the transfers were split into uniform chunks of roughly 2,047…
The final week of March is shaping up to be a volatile one, with the FTX Recovery Trust set to distribute $2.2 billion to creditors on Tuesday and the key U.S. monthly nonfarm payrolls statistic due Friday, when many equity markets worldwide will be closed for Good Friday. The war in the Middle East, now…
The war just got bigger. Bitcoin briefly got smaller. Bitcoin dipped to $65,112 early Monday morning, according to CoinDesk data, its lowest level since the February crash, before recovering to $67,402 as Asian markets opened. The 24-hour range of $65,112 to $67,389 reflects a market that sold hard on overnight escalation headlines and found buyers…
