The analyst who co-wrote this piece owns shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR) and Semler Scientific (SMLR). Have Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy (MSTR) stumbled onto an infinite money glitch? It would be hard to blame anyone for thinking so. While the Saylor-led company began buying bitcoin (BTC) more than four years ago, over the past 10 months […]

Telegram’s gaming ecosystem is thriving, with tap-to-earn and clicker games leveraging the platform’s established base of over 950 million users. According to the Q3 2024 Telegram Games Report, top games like Hamster Kombat and Catizan pulled in hundreds of thousands of active users within weeks, underscoring the appeal of the “mini-app” approach originally pioneered by

Bitcoin has historically been used for two main things: as a store of value and a medium of exchange. These two use cases have served the burgeoning digital economy well, as evidenced by bitcoin’s roughly $2 trillion market cap and millions of institutional and retail users around the globe. These two use cases can be

Stablecoin infrastructure platform BVNK has raised $50 million in Series B funding as it seeks to expand its U.S. operations. Formed in late 2021, BVNK raised $40 million in Series A funding the following May and won registration in Spain a few months later. For the past year, the London-based company has been expanding in

The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday said it had shut down a North Korean money laundering network that used crypto to clean millions of dollars for the hermit kingdom, a global leader in crypto crime. A front company in the UAE called Green Alpine Trading, LLC, had been converting crypto into cash for North Korea,

Fuel, a layer-2 network built on Ethereum, has announced that airdrop claims for its native token will open on Dec. 19, with ten percent of the total supply being allocated to more than 200,000 eligible wallets. The window for airdrop claims will run for one month. 28% of the airdrop allocation will go to phase-1

Nigeria arrested 792 people following a raid at a building where people allegedly committed crypto-related scams, Reuters reported on Monday. The suspects would lure victims, typically from America and Europe, with romantic offers before asking them to hand over money for fake crypto investments, the report said. The people, who included Chinese and Filipino nationals,

The last four years were focused on fighting for the survival of the crypto industry in the United States. Against a hostile administration and unprecedented lawfare, the industry fought back boldly – and won. But now, the industry faces a more pressing task: Helping to shape the legislation and policies that will govern it for

PENGU, the native token of non-fungible token (NFT) project Pudgy Penguins, has debuted at a $2.3 billion market cap after the token was distributed to NFT holders via an airdrop. The Solana-based token has a total supply of 88.88 billion and has racked up around $90 million in trading volume in the first hour since

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 3997.96, up 2.1% (+82.3) since 4 pm ET on Monday. Eight of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: XRP (+7.9%) and XLM (+6.7%). Laggards: LINK (-4.2%) and UNI (-2.3%).