Sorry XRP army: Spot XRP ETF ‘won’t happen anytime soon,’ say analystsIt took the SEC over 10 years to approve a spot Bitcoin ETF, and XRP ETFs would face even more hurdles than Bitcoin did, analysts tell Cointelegraph.Jan 24, 2024Jesse Coghlan
All eyes are on $40K Bitcoin price leading into Friday’s $4.5B BTC options expiryBitcoin price is trading at levels few analysts anticipated. Could this week’s $4.5 billion options expiry help change the trend?Jan 23, 2024Marcel Pechman
Court orders $20M to be paid out in Crowd Machine 2018 ICO case The Crowd Machine Compute Token was meant to pay to use holders’ computer time, but it never became operational.Jan 23, 2024Derek Andersen
Bitcoin price weakness results from larger macroeconomic concernsBitcoin price is being pressured by interest rate concerns, the spot Bitcoin ETF net outflows and the Mt. Gox bankruptcy estate process.Jan 23, 2024Marcel Pechman
Bitcoin traders target $30K–$34K price zone due to bearish BTC chart patternsBitcoin traders flip their bias and cast downside BTC price targets in the low $30,000 zone.Jan 23, 2024Nancy Lubale
How it all went down: Web3 protocol mass phishing campaign timelineMultiple Web3 protocols and crypto websites, including Cointelegraph itself, fell victim to a coordinated email hacking campaign.Jan 23, 2024Tom Blackstone
US Air Force enters the quantum logistics era with $2.5M software dealThis first-of-its-kind partnership comes as part of the U.S. Air Force’s commitment to expand its quantum computing operations.Jan 23, 2024Tristan Greene
An Ethereum ETF is coming sooner than you expectBitcoin ETFs were delayed because of politics. Now that we have clarity — along with seven deadlines between May and August — Ethereum ETFs aren’t far away.Jan 23, 2024Lucas Kiely
FINRA finds violations in 70% of crypto asset public communications reviewedThe U.S. regulator launched the review on crypto-related public communications following the collapse of FTX in November 2022.Jan 23, 2024Turner Wright
Radiant Capital begins debt repayment after $4.5M flash loan exploitThe cross-chain lending protocol expects to fully clear its bad debt within 90 days.Jan 23, 2024Zhiyuan Sun
AI deepfakes fool voters and politicians ahead of 2024 US elections — ‘I thought it was real’The U.S. appears unprepared for the onslaught of AI-generated imitations despite years of warnings from think tanks.Jan 23, 2024Tristan Greene
Bitcoin rides new $600M GBTC offload, with BTC price eyeing 2-month lowBitcoin sees a “rinse and repeat” BTC price decline at the hands of ETF turmoil as FTX joins the selling pressure.Jan 23, 2024William Suberg
JPMorgan downgrades Coinbase stock to ‘underweight’ following spot Bitcoin ETF approvalsThe investment bank had previously categorized Coinbase stock as a “neutral” rating but maintained its price target of $80 by December 2024.Jan 23, 2024Turner Wright
OKX exchange to compensate users after 48% token flash crashThe crash briefly wiped out $6.5 billion in diluted market capitalization.Jan 23, 2024Zhiyuan Sun
Crypto+AI token picks, AGI will take ‘a long time’, Galaxy AI to 100M phones: AI EyeGrayscale Research highlights use cases in AI and crypto, AGI could take a very long time, and ChatGPT doesn’t understand Where’s Waldo.Jan 23, 2024Andrew Fenton
UAE president issues law establishing an artificial intelligence councilThe newly established council will develop and implement artificial intelligence policies applied to research, infrastructure and investments.Jan 23, 2024Ezra Reguerra
Making Vitalik Buterin’s cypherpunk dream for Ethereum a realityThe Ethereum co-founder recently wrote that the network has gotten away from its founding principles.Jan 23, 2024Robert D. Knight
Coordinated crypto hack and phishing campaign floods investor emails: AlertHackers are sending out phishing emails promoting token airdrops using email addresses purporting to be from Cointelegraph, WalletConnect, Token Terminal and other prominent Web3 firms.Jan 23, 2024Gareth Jenkinson
Trump ‘will never allow’ CBDC, gives ‘full credit’ to Vivek RamaswamyThe presidential candidate acknowledges the importance of the issue and credits Vivek Ramaswamy for bringing it to his attention.Jan 23, 2024David Attlee
Invesco and WisdomTree cut fees on European ETPs as price war reaches EuropeU.S. investors often turned to European and Canadian-based ETPs for investment, but now the tables have turned as U.S.-based spot BTC ETFs are more easily accessible and more liquid, attracting European investors as well.Jan 23, 2024Prashant Jha
Mt. Gox confirms creditors’ Bitcoin addresses for repayment: ReportAfter launching bank repayments in December 2023, the Mt. Gox trustee is getting ready to start repayments of BTC and BCH on Bitstamp and Kraken accounts.Jan 23, 2024Helen Partz
Spot Bitcoin ETFs’ on-chain addresses found by ArkhamArkham has claimed to have managed to identify the on-chain addresses with Bitcoin backing another four spot BTC ETFs.Jan 23, 2024Helen Partz
Coinbase addresses Geth dominance concerns with client diversityCoinbase is conducting updated technical assessments on alternative Ethereum execution clients as the ecosystem’s Go.Ethereum client reliance attracts community concerns.Jan 23, 2024Gareth Jenkinson
BIS announces CBDC, tokenization projects for 2024The Bank for International Settlements 2024 program features six new projects exploring the issues of cybersecurity, fighting financial crime, CBDCs and green finance.Jan 23, 2024David Attlee
BTC price analysis sees $38K next if Bitcoin fails to rally bullsBitcoin allegedly “still has more to go” when it comes to BTC price dips, but some are already eyeing the potential for the mother of short squeezes to come.Jan 23, 2024William Suberg
FTX claims prices rally ahead of anticipated estimation hearingWhile FTX is keen on refunding the investors based on Nov. 2022 market prices, FTX creditors aim for an “in-kind” repayment structure that bases the repayments on the number of tokens, not their market prices.Jan 23, 2024Arijit Sarkar
Bitcoin ETFs post $76M in net outflows on ‘bad’ 7th day of tradingDespite “unceasing” outflows from Grayscale, the outlook for spot Bitcoin ETFs remains positive, with more than $1.1 billion in total inflows across the board, says Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart.Jan 23, 2024Tom Mitchelhill
‘Enjoyable experience’ — Su Zhu loved his 3 months in Singapore prisonThe Three Arrows Capital co-founder says he had the best sleep of his life and felt a “magical feeling” of kinship with his ancestors.Jan 23, 2024Tom Mitchelhill
Bitcoin-based ‘rival’ to modern stablecoins to emerge soon — CoinSharesCoinShares analysts believe 2024 will be pivotal for Bitcoin in the stablecoin arena and that a successful project could even “rival the speed and cost” of modern stablecoins.Jan 23, 2024Brayden Lindrea
Coinbase, Paradigm, others argue crypto mixer rules are a ‘waste of time’Crypto firms, including Coinbase, Consensys, the Blockchain Association and others, have filed comments on FinCEN’s proposed reporting requirements for crypto mixing activities.Jan 23, 2024Martin Young