Bitget, a cryptocurrency exchange that has grown rapidly in recent years to one of the largest, is considering partnerships with U.S. firms to gain a foothold in America, encouraged by the incoming Trump administration’s likely pro-crypto stance. Some of the largest crypto exchanges such as Binance, ByBit, OKX and Bitget are prohibited from serving U.S. […]

Bitcoin Development Company MicroStrategy (MSTR) added to its mammoth bitcoin (BTC) holdings last week with the purchase of another 21,550 tokens. The buys were made over the week ended Dec. 8 and the firm paid an average price of $98,783 each, totaling $2.1 billion, according to <a href=”https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050446/000119312524272923/d873652d8k.htm” target=”_blank”>a Monday regulatory filing</a>. It funded the

The community group governing decisions on Solana-based decentralized exchange Jupiter on Sunday passed a long-awaited vote to allow two incentives of $860 million (worth of tokens at current prices) each over two years, shifting the related JUP token’s fundamentals. The proposal was part of the <a href=”https://www.jupresear.ch/t/j4j-3-jupuary-vote-2/28451″ target=”_blank”>“Jupuary” vote #2</a>, which was changed and refloated

By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) The crypto market has begun the week on a negative note, with bitcoin (BTC) lower after a weekend spent wrestling with the $100,000 mark amid reports that Amazon shareholders are pushing for an allocation to the cryptocurrency. The persistent indecisiveness since Dec. 5 amid <a href=”https://x.com/cryptoquant_com/status/1864346040633008510″

Crypto markets started the week in the red as bitcoin (BTC) slumped during the European morning hours after having briefly crossed the $100,000 level. BTC fell 2% from its six-figure landmark causing a dive across majors. XRP, dogecoin (DOGE) and Solana’s SOL fell as much as 5.5%, with BNB Chain’s BNB and ether (ETH) down

Movement, an Ethereum layer-2 network that was built using MoveVM, will issue its native token on Monday with a portion of the tokens being airdropped to early users and community members. The token, MOVE, will be listed on Binance via the exchange’s airdrops portal, and will also be listed on prominent South Korean exchanges Upbit

DeFi protocol Radiant Capital has attributed a <a href=”https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/10/16/radiant-capital-loses-50m-to-blockchain-exploit” target=”_blank”>$50 million exploit</a> it suffered in October to North Korean hackers. According to a <a href=”https://medium.com/@RadiantCapital/radiant-capital-incident-update-e56d8c23829e” target=”_blank”>report published on Dec. 6</a>, the attackers started laying the groundwork for the Oct. 16 attack in mid-September, when a Telegram message from what appeared to be a trusted former

When assets surge to lifetime highs or multimonth peaks, traders are often faced with the challenge of identifying key resistance levels, the price targets where the market could next take a breather. That’s precisely the situation facing bitcoin (<a href=”https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin/” target=”_blank”>BTC</a>) and XRP (XRP) traders. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, is trading at

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse in an interview with 60 Minutes, said that the 2024 election was a “major victory” for crypto as the majority of Fairshake, a crypto political action committee (PAC), backed candidates, <a href=”https://www.coindesk.com/news-analysis/2024/12/02/crypto-cash-fueled-53-members-of-the-next-u-s-congress” target=”_blank”>won their seats.</a> And this was a non-partisan effort, as crypto, itself is non-partisan, he argued, pointing to the

Amazon’s (AMZN) shareholders are urging the company to take a page from MicroStrategy’s (MSTR) playbook by diversifying its reserves into bitcoin (BTC) to beat inflation and boost shareholder value. “Though bitcoin is currently a volatile asset – as Amazon stock has been at times throughout its history – corporations have a responsibility to maximize shareholder