President Donald Trump issued a debanking executive order this week aimed at stopping what his administration described as unfair banking discrimination toward the crypto sector.
Will the order be the definitive blow to the so-called Operation Choke Point 2.0? Will banks that debanked crypto companies unfairly be forced to reinstate them? Custodia Bank founder and CEO Caitlin Long dives into the...
Altcoin traders can hardly contain themselves as the long-awaited breakout appears to have begun. ETH posted gains of over 20% the last seven days and smaller cap coins like SOL, DOGE, and BNB are close behind, with Chainlink’s LINK token up 30% in the same timeframe. Does this mean alt season finally here?
A painful bull market for altcoin traders
2025 has been a stellar year for Bitcoin, seeing...
Coinbase has begun integrating DEX trading directly into its app via Base, expanding user access to millions of tokens compared to the current 300 listed assets, according to an Aug. 8 announcement.
The feature allows select US customers, excluding those in New York State, to trade newly created Base-native assets within moments of their launch using Coinbase’s existing interface.
The integration...
Crypto projects captured $2.67 billion in investments last month and is equivalent to 85% of money raised during the entire second quarter.
DefiLlama data shows that the funding amount in July is 6% larger than June, when crypto startups surpassed $2.5 billion by a small margin.
Additionally, July was the second-largest month in funding, bested only by March’s $3.5 billion. Pump.fun’s pre-sales...
Harvard Management Co. (HMC) reported a position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) worth $116,666,260.
According to a Form 13F filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 8, HMC had 1,906,000 shares of IBIT as of June 30.
Based on the values shown on the same page, the Bitcoin allocation represents roughly 8% of the filing’s reported portfolio worth over $1.4...
Geneva, Switzerland – August 8, 2025 – CoinDesk Data, the institutional research and analytics arm of CoinDesk, a leading media outlet in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, has published a comprehensive protocol report on TRON. The report offers a detailed analysis of TRON’s performance in the first half of 2025, highlighting its continued leadership in stablecoin settlements, rapid user...
Ripple’s stablecoin RLUSD grew 32.3% in supply between June and July, surpassing $600 million.
This was the second most significant growth in supply among stablecoins with over $500 million in supply growth, lagging only Ethena Labs’ USDe, which grew 63.4% in the same period.
RLUSD has been in a strong growth trend since May, nearly doubling its supply as of July 31. The stablecoin’s market cap...
Over half of the 25 largest US banks are now weighing or rolling out crypto-related products.
An Aug. 8 status chart shared by River that tracks the giants across two lanes, custody and trading.
The snapshot shows multiple firms moving from “not yet” to “exploring,” “announced,” or restricted access for high-net-worth clients, indicating that digital asset offerings are steadily entering...
Ethereum (ETH) surged past the $4,000 mark on Aug. 8, hitting its highest level this year after a sustained market rally that saw it gain nearly 50% in the past month.
Data from CryptoSlate shows the asset peaked at $4,047 during US trading hours. Notably, the last time ETH traded above $4,000 was in December 2024, when optimism around Donald Trump’s election victory fueled a wave of pro-crypto...
Nasdaq-listed Verb Technology has raised $558 million in a private placement to establish the first publicly listed company dedicated to holding Toncoin (TON) as a treasury reserve asset.
The financing round, which was upsized and oversubscribed, was led by Kingsway Capital and drew participation from over 110 institutional and crypto-native investors.
Notable backers include Vy Capital,...