El Salvador shook the world in 2021 when President Nayib Bukele made bitcoin legal tender, giving the cryptocurrency the same status as the U.S. dollar, the Central American nation’s official currency.Since then, El Salvador has constituted a bitcoi

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s change of heart about free speech isn’t what it seems.On Jan. 7, the Facebook founder said his company would “get back to our roots around free expression” by ending third-party fact-checking in the United States and “lifti

Crypto.com has secured in-principal approval to operate across the European Union under a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license, the cryptocurrency exchange said. Once finalized, the MiCA license will enable Crypto.com to operate in EU countries un

NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rezolve Ai , a leader in AI-driven retail innovation, welcomes the recent announcement by the Trump Administration of its intention to designate cryptocurrency as a national priority. This move underscores

What a week it was for the entire cryptocurrency market. Let’s start and focus on Bitcoin.The primary cryptocurrency began the trading week with a massive price correction that pushed it south by several grand within a day. There werewarning signsabo

HONG KONG, Jan. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CoinEx Research and ViaBTC Capital have jointly published the 2024 Crypto Annual Report, offering an in-depth analysis of the cryptocurrency market’s remarkable growth, volatility, and innovation througho

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company could consider more presence in the United States but is remaining cautious as it waits to see how the regulatory landscape changes. “I cannot exclude Tether moving a bit more toward some US presence, but we

Advocates and holders of crypto will soon influence U.S. policy on the emerging technology after a slew of nominations and advisory appointments by President-elect , who takes office on Monday.The crypto industry has spent years fighting lawsuits

Aave’s tokenholder community is mulling a foray into Bitcoin mining in a bid to boost revenues and accelerate adoption of Aave’s stablecoin, according to a proposal in the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol’s governance forum. The Jan. 15 proposa

Tether is launching a new cross-chain stablecoin, USDT0, in collaboration with Kraken. The token will largely focus on interoperability.The company is first launching USDT0 on Kraken’s Layer-2 network Ink. Subsequently, it will expand to Berachain an

Layer-1 stablecoin payments network 1Money has raised more than $20 million in seed funding to further develop its digital payments infrastructure. According to a Jan. 16 announcement, more than two dozen venture capital firms participated in the see

Crypto crime is dropping, and nowhere faster than on blockchain often called out for illicit use, TRON, according to a preview of TRM Labs’ 2024 Crypto Crime Report.Illicit onchain volume is down 24% since 2023 to $45 billion, according to the blockc

Tether has tapped crypto exchange Kraken’s native Ethereum scaling layer, Ink, for the first deployment of its USDT0 token, according to an announcement on Thursday. USDT0 is looking to develop into a cross-chain “unified liquidity layer,” making tra

Startup 1Money announced on Wednesday that it has $20 million in seed funding to build a Layer 1 "exclusively designed" for stablecoin payments."The seed capital will power the launch of the 1Money Network, a next-generation payment network engineere

XRP, the native token of the XRP Ledger network closely related to Ripple, surged to a six-year high on Wednesday as bitcoin rallied to $100,000, with traders encouraged by this morning's highly-anticipated U.S. CPI inflation data report.The token b

Hong Kong-based regulated digital asset financial services provider HashKey Group has put forward 10 crypto predictions for 2025, with around 50,000 community members voting on the likelihood of forecasts compiled by HashKey researchers, analysts and

Startup 1Money announced on Wednesday that it has $20 million in seed funding to build a Layer 1 "exclusively designed" for stablecoin payments."The seed capital will power the launch of the 1Money Network, a next-generation payment network engineere

Stablecoin issuer Tether has filed a lawsuit against Bitcoin financial services company Swan Bitcoin, accusing the firm of “significant breaches” in their agreements. In a statement to Cointelegraph on Jan. 15, Tether, along with co-claimant 2040 Ene

Huione Guarantee, which has been labeled as “the largest online illicit marketplace to have ever operated” by crypto compliance firm Elliptic, has grown its monthly inflows by 51% in just half a year — boosted by its own USD stablecoin launch in Sept

Cryptocurrency payment service BitPay processed 608,000 transactions in 2024 as more holders showed a willingness to spend their digital assets during the bull market. According to BitPay’s “Decrypted 2024” report, Litecoin dominated the transaction