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Core Scientific has announced that it’s looking to raise $3.3 billion through senior secured notes as it shifts its business away from Bitcoin mining. Core Scientific Is Transitioning From Bitcoin To AI Data Centers According to a press release, Core Scientific’s finance subsidiary is pl...

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm says shutting down a website might not be enough to keep a crypto protocol out of legal trouble — and his warning comes at a critical moment for Umbra. Related Reading: Bybit Leads $8 Million Round To Scale Crypto Platform Across Malaysia Crypto Protocol Umbra Tak...

TRON has quietly become one of the most important stablecoin settlement layers in crypto — $85 billion in circulating USDT and $21 billion in daily transfer volume make that difficult to argue against. What it has lacked, until now, is a clean bridge to the broader DeFi ecosystem that most builders ...

The project team dared Justin Sun to go to court. Now he has. Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron blockchain and the single largest individual investor in World Liberty Financial, filed a lawsuit in a California federal court on Wednesday against the Trump-family-backed crypto project. Related Readi...

Altcoins have been among the most frustrating trades in crypto for the better part of 3 years. Since the 2022 bear market broke valuations across the sector, selling pressure has remained a persistent ceiling on any recovery attempt — and the altseason that cycle after cycle of traders anticipated h...

A new storage offering is moving from partnership language to product language inside the Cardano stack. Filecoin said Blockfrost has added a premium storage tier for developers backed by Filecoin, giving builders a distributed, verifiable backup layer without requiring changes to existing workflows...

The XRP Ledger is increasingly being highlighted by crypto commentators as one of the few major blockchain infrastructures with no protocol-level exploit losses. As discussions around security intensify following several high-profile DeFi breaches, XRP supporters and developers are pointing to desig...

Shiba Inu (SHIB) is seeing renewed momentum as its Open Interest (OI) has surged more than 20% in a single day, surpassing both Bitcoin (BTC) and XRP. The meme coin appears to be staging a recovery as trading volume continues to ramp up and price experiences short rebounds. Despite its prolonged cho...

A compilation shared on X has brought together a string of bullish Bitcoin calls from banks, hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, and long-time crypto bulls, with estimates ranging from the low six figures all the way to $500,000. Bitcoin is currently trading around $78,000, with the cryptocurr...

Despite experiencing a notable decline of nearly 50% from its all-time high of $126,000, the demand and interest in Bitcoin on the institutional level have not yet lost their momentum. Even during multiple market drawdowns, a massive accumulation of BTC was still strongly observed among many large f...

Something quiet is happening on the XRP Ledger. What is happening instead is the kind of institutional movement that is quietly deploying capital onto the Ledger, targeting the US Treasury debt, one of the largest and most stable markets in global finance. The numbers are still small, but the struct...

US lawmakers are pushing to bring Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturing back to American soil — a move driven by growing concern that the country’s dependence on foreign-made hardware puts national security at risk. Related Reading: Crypto Extortion Hits Strait Of Hormuz As Scammers Exploit S...

Ethereum staking activity continues to experience sharp growth in the face of renewed bullish momentum in ETH’s prices, which is now holding firmly above the $2,300 mark. After recent staking actions from both retail and institutional investors, the amount of staked ETH has surged to unprecedented l...

Crypto pundit Vandell has highlighted how XRP has outperformed hedge funds since its launch despite criticism of its price appreciation. The pundit also declared that the altcoin is bound to increase over time, regardless of its utility. How XRP Has Outperformed Hedge Funds In an X post, Vandell not...

A new position paper from the Coinbase Independent Advisory Board on Quantum Computing and Blockchain argues that crypto’s quantum threat is not immediate, but the migration work can no longer be treated as a distant problem. The report’s core message is straightforward: Bitcoin, Ethereum and the br...

Business leaders across Europe are no longer just watching the crypto market from the sidelines. Data shows that 42% of business investors already hold some form of digital currency. Another 18% of these institutional players say they plan to buy in soon. This shift among companies is moving faster ...

Bitcoin has entered the US national security conversation more directly, and more publicly, than before. In Senate testimony highlighted Thursday by the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) and several industry observers, Admiral Samuel Paparo, the four-star commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, described...

The Bitcoin price continues to struggle despite the recent recovery, but the real losses are being recorded elsewhere. The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector was the main focus of the 2021-2022 bull market, with the emergence of new coins. However, the bullishness surrounding the entire sector has ...

The newly appointed Governor of the Bank of Korea (BOK) has delivered his first policy address in office, highlighting central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and bank-issued deposit tokens while skipping any mention of stablecoins, despite South Korea’s efforts to develop a related framework and es...

Malaysia’s crypto sector is drawing serious outside money. Bank Negara Malaysia has spent the past year rolling out sandbox pilots and tokenization roadmaps, and now one of the world’s biggest exchanges is backing a local platform to grow alongside it. Related Reading: Altcoin Carnage Ah...