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Bitcoin has surged from $108,000 to over $120,000 in less than a week, extending its aggressive uptrend and hitting new all-time highs on nearly every trading day.
While the US dollar price of Bitcoin keeps soaring, the same momentum has been more muted in other fiat currencies like the euro and British pound.
The divergence is tied to the declining strength of the US dollar. Since January, the...
Bitcoin has reached a new all-time high of $123,165, surging more than 5% in 24 hours and pushing its market capitalization to $2.39 trillion.
According to CryptoSlate data, the milestone occurred in the early hours of July 14, marking the first time the flagship crypto has surpassed the $120,000 threshold.
This surge now places Bitcoin as the fifth-largest asset globally by market cap, above...
Trusting randomness: Why verifiable randomness is crucial for AI, crypto, & decentralized technology
The following is a guest post and opinion from Felix Xu, Founder of ARPA Network.
Walk into any of Cloudflare’s global offices and you’ll find some unusual decor. In San Francisco, it’s floor-to-ceiling lava lamps, known as “the wall of entropy.” In London, it’s the “unpredictable pendulums.” These aren’t just pretty backdrops—they are grist for the randomness mill, exemplifying the ongoing...
The following is a guest post and opinion from Michael Egorov, Founder of Curve Finance.
As DeFi edges closer to mainstream finance, it must balance neutrality, security, and throughput. In 2025, that balance is increasingly defined by two competing architectural visions.
The evolution of DeFi has always hinged on one core question: what kind of infrastructure do we want to build the future of...
Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm took to Twitter with an urgent plea for support, ahead of his high-profile trial date tomorrow. Storm, who has been battling legal charges for nearly two years, is calling on the crypto community to help raise $500,000 in the next few days and $1.5 million in the coming weeks to cover escalating legal fees, expert witnesses, and research costs as the case...
Welcome to Slate Sundays, CryptoSlate’s new weekly feature showcasing in-depth interviews, expert analysis, and thought-provoking op-eds that go beyond the headlines to explore the ideas and voices shaping the future of crypto.
I recently interviewed Gracy Chen, the first female CEO of Bitget and the only female CEO out of the top 10 centralized exchanges. I wanted to ask about her vision, skills...
When gold maximalist Debra Robinson jeered, “Imagine paying $118k for a set of man-made numbers,” she echoed a familiar skepticism among precious metal enthusiasts. Lyn Alden, a respected macro analyst and Bitcoin bull, responded with pragmatic advice:
“Precious metal enthusiasts could buy a bitcoin position of like 5% of their metals position. That hedges their risk of bitcoin gradually taking...
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao or CZ threatened to sue news agency Bloomberg for a second time over its report alleging links between the exchange and the USD1 stablecoin.
In an X post on Friday, CZ called the article “another hit piece” that was “sponsored by a competitor,” without explicitly naming the competitor. He dismissed it as a report meant to sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt, popularly...
Pump.fun, a platform that enables anyone to create and launch memecoins, concluded one of the largest and fastest initial coin offerings (ICOs) on Saturday. Within 12 minutes of the ICO going live, the platform raised $600 million from the sale of 15% of its token supply for $0.0040 each.
The ICO, which ended far quicker than the assigned 72 hours, put the platform’s fully diluted valuation at $4...
When Bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff started yet another rant about Bitcoin today, it was too much for Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz. As a salty Schiff began calling Bitcoin’s capped supply “meaningless” and “arbitrary,” Novogratz fired back:
“Why do you hate $BTC so much? You have been wrong on it for a decade. A flexible mind is a healthy mind. Admit you were wrong. It’s liberating.”
Schiff, a long-...