President-elect Donald Trump launched a Solana-based memecoin Friday night via posts on his social media accounts, three days before he takes the oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States. The memecoin quickly reached a market

President-elect Donald Trump is on the verge of taking office and all signs point to his administration revolutionizing the U.S. government’s stance on crypto.Less cracking down and more collaboration are the expectations across the crypto sphere, wh

Two LA-based criminals attempted to steal over $100 million during a home invasion, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office announcing that they have pleaded guilty to a litany of charges. Adam Iza, 24, who called himself the “Cr

EVAA Protocol, a DeFi lending platform for the TON ecosystem, raised $2.5 million in a private token sale.Participants in the recently closed round included Polymorphic, Baring Vostok, TON Ventures, Animoca Brands, CMT Digital, Mythos Ventures, Wagmi

Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur-turned-politician and outspoken advocate for cryptocurrency, is reportedly vying to take on another role as Ohio's governor. Ramaswamy plans to announce a bid for Ohio governor "shortly," a source close to Ra

The Singapore-based digital asset exchange Crypto.com obtained in-principle approval for a Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) license, according to a Friday company release.Though the exchange doesn't appear to have its full license yet, obtaining final

Donald Trump is set to be inaugurated on Monday, Jan. 20, as the 47th president of the United States and memecoin traders are bullish heading into the event.The rise in memecoin activity over the past year gave way to sectors within the meme universe

Happy Friday! As we approach a potential storm of volatility surrounding President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, take a moment to relax and catch up on the latest crypto developments.In today's newsletter, Trump reportedly intends to i

Sen. Ted Cruz plans to introduce a Congressional Review Act resolution next week aimed at overturning a controversial tax rule requiring certain decentralized finance brokers to file reports on gross proceeds.The Texas Republican plans to introduce t

President-elect Donald Trump is on the verge of taking office and all signs point to his administration revolutionizing the U.S. government’s stance on crypto.Less cracking down and more collaboration are the expectations across the crypto sphere, wh

Coinbase Prime has seen a significant increase in over-the-counter (OTC) trading activity, indicating a rise in institutional investors utilizing OTC channels to accumulate bitcoin, according to CryptoQuant analysts. "When there is a significant incr

Global investment firm Digital Currency Group agreed to settle and pay $38 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday over allegations that it misled investors via crypto lender Genesis Global Capital, LLC. The SEC said that one

MARA Holdings, the bitcoin mining company that trades on the Nasdaq, has hashed a portrait of Donald Trump, the incoming 47th president of the United States, onto the Bitcoin blockchain. The president-elect’s visage is now immortalized onchain, speci

Cross-chain bridging protocol Orbiter Finance has introduced its native governance and staking token OBT ahead of a planned launch and initial airdrop that coincides with Inauguration Day for pro-crypto President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20.OBT is

Derivatives activity around XRP has surged alongside the cryptocurrency's price rally, with key metrics pointing to growing bullish sentiment, according to an analyst."Looking purely at XRP options data, there is a larger interest in calls as opposed

Crypto market maker Wintermute said its over-the-counter trade volumes quadrupled in 2024, largely driven by the increase in institutional demand for crypto.The company said in its year-end report that its OTC volumes rose by 313% last year, which ex

Ethereum developers aim to launch the network’s Pectra upgrade in March 2025, with specific milestones leading up to this mainnet fork.New client releases for the upgrade and hard forks on Ethereum test networks Sepolia and Holesky are expected by Fe

Jupiter plans to unlock about 700 million tokens, which is around 41.51% of its circulating supply, on January 31, 2025. This large token release might lead to a big price change. When many tokens enter the market suddenly, it often causes more selli

Arbitrum is set to unlock 92.65 million tokens on February 16, 2025. This event could impact the token's price since a large supply increase often leads to price drops. It depends on how strong the market demand is for these tokens. If demand can abs

Merit Systems, a startup focused on changing the economics of open-source software development, raised $10 million in a seed funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto fund and Blockchain Capital.Merit is developing an attribution protocol