The ETH/BTC ratio mounted a comeback in May, reversing months of Ethereum‘s relentless underperformance against Bitcoin.
After reaching an 11-month low of 0.01805 on April 21, ETH/BTC surged to 0.02501 by May 15, marking a 38.6% recovery in less than a month and a 17% rise in the past seven days. The sharp ascent marks Ethereum’s first showing of relative strength since early February and reopens...
The Central Bank of Russia has ranked Bitcoin as the most profitable investment over the past year, outperforming traditional assets such as gold, stocks, and bonds.
In a newly published analysis, the regulator noted that Bitcoin delivered a 38% return in the last 12 months, ranking highest among the asset classes it evaluated.
Looking further back to 2022, Bitcoin’s cumulative return stood at...
Coinbase revealed that it suffered a data breach that affected less than 1% of its active monthly users, according to the May 15 statement.
Following the hack, the exchange CEO Brian Armstrong said the perpetrators tried to extort it of $20 million in Bitcoin.
How Coinbase was breached
According to the exchange, the threat actors recruited and bribed a group of overseas support agents with access...
Everyday minnow Bitcoin holders control only a fraction of the top digital asset’s total circulating supply despite its vision of financial decentralization and autonomy.
According to a May 14 report from blockchain analytics firm Santiment, retail wallets holding less than 10 BTC collectively own just 3.47 million coins, equivalent to 17.5% of Bitcoin’s circulating supply. This group has...
Digital asset service providers in the UK must submit customer data to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) beginning Jan. 1, 2026.
According to a May 14 update on the financial authority’s website, this move follows the adoption of the OECD’s Cryptoasset Reporting Framework (CARF), which mandates global tax transparency standards for digital assets.
Under the rules, all UK-based crypto...
Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a sharp flow reversal between May 13 and May 14. On May 13, the ETFs posted a net outflow of $91.4 million, the largest daily withdrawal since April 30.
The losses were entirely driven by Fidelity’s FBTC, which recorded $91.4 million in redemptions with no offsetting inflows across other issuers.
However, the trend shifted on May 14 as spot Bitcoin ETFs brought in $319....
Geneva, Switzerland, May 15, 2025 – TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), has adopted Chainlink Data Feeds as the official data oracle solution for the TRON ecosystem. This upgrade follows TRON DAO joining the Chainlink Scale program in October 2024.
The integration...
Bitfarms reported $2.1 million in net financial income for the first quarter of 2025, a sharp decline from $11.4 million in the same period a year earlier, due to reduced gains on derivatives and warrant revaluations.
Bitfarms said in its latest Management’s Discussion and Analysis of the first quarter performance that the lower financial income contributed to a wider net loss of $35.9 million,...
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has unveiled the Trillion-Dollar Security (1TS) initiative, a long-term plan to raise Ethereum’s security standards in line with its growing importance in global finance.
The Foundation said it aims to position Ethereum as a network capable of securely holding trillions of dollars in assets for individuals and institutions.
According to the Foundation, Ethereum’s...
Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan said on May 14 that a “big unlock” is occurring across the financial advisory space regarding crypto investments.
After attending a major advisory firm’s conference, Hougan shared his expectations that most major firms will enable crypto exchange-traded product (ETP) access by the end of 2025.
He added that interest in crypto exposure is intensifying...