Moonshot added Apple Pay support for launching new memecoins on June 27, expanding its iOS application beyond buying and trading tokens to include a creation workflow that requires only a photo upload and a tap on the “Create” tab.
Branded Moonshot Create, the product allows any user to mint a Solana-based coin by submitting an image and paying the network initialization fee through Apple Pay. ...
Projects tied to Pepe meme creator Matt Furie and the NFT studio ChainSaw lost roughly $1 million to contract takeover exploits last week, according to on-chain investigator ZachXBT.
On June 27, ZachXBT reported transaction records showing that the attacker seized control of the “Replicandy” contract at 4:25 a.m. UTC on June 18 by transferring ownership to the externally owned address 0x9Fca. ...
President Donald Trump said Bitcoin (BTC) transactions “take a lot of pressure off the dollar” and argued that US leadership in digital assets blocks China from dominating the sector.
He made the comments during a White House press conference on June 27, which was held after what he described as a major Supreme Court victory for his administration.
Trump called cryptocurrency “an industry” and...
Robinhood expanded its futures trading suite by adding micro futures contracts for XRP, Solana (SOL), and Bitcoin (BTC), according to a June 27 announcement.
The zero-commission brokerage said the new products offer lower margin requirements and seamless execution via its trading ladder interface.
Each micro XRP futures contract represents 2,500 XRP, roughly $5,200 at current market prices, with...
Bitcoin owners are becoming a significant voting group in the United States, and their influence is poised to grow ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Following their noticeable role in the 2024 presidential vote, recent polling from Cygnal shows that these voters are aligning more closely with pro-Bitcoin candidates, most notably from the Republican Party.
Cygnal’s president Brent Buchanan...
PayPal chief executive Alex Chriss said the United States remains far from widespread stablecoin adoption, telling Bloomberg TV on June 26 that consumers lack meaningful incentives to shift away from existing payment rails, a view surfacing as the company advances new initiatives around rewards and cross-border transfers.
His comments follow the Senate’s passage of the GENIUS Act earlier this...
Bitcoin is holding firm near historic highs as the U.S. dollar tumbles to its weakest level in more than three years, spotlighting the fragile dance between crypto prices and the world’s dominant reserve currency.
As of Friday morning in London, Bitcoin traded at $107,639, up around 9.8% since the start of the year and 6% over the last week. The world’s largest cryptocurrency remains just shy of...
Grayscale has updated its Top 20 crypto assets for the third quarter of 2025, naming Avalanche (AVAX) and Morpho as new entrants while dropping Optimism and Lido DAO, according to a July 26 report.
The firm emphasized that the changes reflect a research-driven selection process that favors on-chain traction over popularity or market capitalization.
Following these additions, the Top 20 list...
The first half of 2025 exposed deep vulnerabilities in the crypto industry, with hackers stealing over $2.1 billion across 75 separate incidents.
This marks a 10% increase from the previous H1 record of $2 billion in 2022 and nearly matches the full-year figure for 2024, which closed at $2.2 billion, according to a report from blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs.
Crypto Hacks as of H1 2022 –...
Bitcoin has overtaken Google’s parent Alphabet to become the world’s sixth most valuable asset, and is now sitting within a few percent of Amazon.
The move comes amid a renewed burst of crypto optimism, as Coinbase stock surges on imminent U.S. stablecoin regulation. This one-two punch of market and policy news is fuelling speculation that the sector is cementing its status as a mainstream macro...