IP-backed memecoin Simon’s Cat surged 50% Monday after becoming the first cat-themed token to get a coveted Binance spot listing — amid some meme tokens taking the plagiarism heat.CAT zoomed from $0.000039 to a record peak of $0.000067 in early Asia

Ripple, an enterprise-focused blockchain service closely related to the XRP Ledger , said it will start making its highly-anticipated U.S. dollar stablecoin accessible to users on Tuesday, Dec. 17 following the token's regulatory approval.RLUSD will

I will remember 2024 as the year blockchain broke through. The transformations started early and just kept coming. What’s astounding to me is that at no time during this year did the overall direction or the market change. The only thing that happene

Bitcoin mining economics continued to improve this month, as the hashprice, a measure of daily profitability, rose 5% from the end of November, JPMorgan said in a research report Monday.The hashprice increased as the rally in the world's largest cr

Red-hot decentralized finance , ether and solana perpetual swaps and farming the funding rates. This investment strategy offers lofty yields – currently 27% annualized – when crypto markets are in bull mode, but can quickly turn unprofitable when t

Surging volumes in put options linked to BlackRock's Nasdaq-listed spot bitcoin ETF could be interpreted as bearish sentiment. That's not necessarily the case.On Friday, more than 13,000 contracts of the $30 out-of-the-money (OTM) put option expirin

Bitcoin set a fresh record above $106,000 earlier Monday, with traders now targeting the $120,000 level as the asset moves into the second half of a seasonally bullish December.Recent catalysts that have supported growth in BTC include increased spe

Bitcoin surged to over $106,000 in early Asian hours, setting new all-time highs before quickly retreating to $104,500 amid concerns about the upcoming U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) rate cut.The U.S. central bank is expected to reduce the benchmark bor

MicroStrategy is set to soon be included in of the world's largest exchange-traded funds after becoming the first bitcoin-centric company to win entry into the Nasdaq-100 Index.The Nasdaq-100 Index tracks the 100 largest non-financial companies list

Michael Novogratz's Galaxy Digital (GLXY) has hired former Point72 chief financial officer Anthony Paquette to serve in the same role at the crypto financial services firm. He will replace Alex Ioffe, who will transition into a senior adviser role, t

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3837.79, down 0.0% (-1.86) since 4 pm ET on Thursday.Nine of 20 assets are tradi

A Polygon DAO community cohort is considering a proposal to use its more than $1 billion of idle stablecoin reserves, currently held on the Polygon PoS Chain bridge to capture yields, per a pre-proposal governance post.“The PoS Bridge currently holds

Societe Generale said it carried out a blockchain-based repurchase agreement with the Banque de France in what it called the first such tokenized transaction with a euro-zone central bank.The lender's digital assets-focused subsidiary, SG-Forge, depo

MicroStrategy , the software company founded by Michael Saylor, is not the only large-scale corporate buyer of bitcoin , JPMorgan said in a Wednesday report. Crypto miners are also adopting the accumulation strategy. The shift to building up bitcoin

Disclosure: The author of this story owns shares in MicroStrategy .Since Donald Trump won the U.S. election on Nov. 5, bitcoin has soared from $67,000 to around $100,000. This has coincided with a huge rise in bitcoin's total trade volume which has

By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)Bitcoin and ether's bull momentum has hit a roadblock. The U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) came in hotter than expected Thursday, prompting investors to tighten their stances and keep a bid fo

Bitcoin is not the only one setting milestones. HyperLiquid, the leading on-chain perpetuals trading protocol operating on its custom-built layer 1 blockchain, is setting impressive records, too, with the platform seeing more activity in ether than

Bitcoin , the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, is fighting a big milestone trying to sustain a $2 trillion market cap and a $100,000 price.Once bitcoin has conclusively overcome these milestones, there may be clear skies ahead. Bitcoi

Bitcoin traders could be in for another thrilling ride. A key technical indicator that presaged November's price surge is positioned precisely as it was then, signaling a potential volatility explosion ahead.That indicator is the Bollinger bandwidth

The Pudgy Penguins NFT collection is keeping Web3 hopes afloat in a sea of dead NFT projects and a generally muted collectibles market.The non-fungible token set became the world’s second most-valued NFTs on Wednesday, with the minimum — or floor — p