Altcoin Watch
LTC price fell under $90, but multiple factors suggest Q4 2025 could be an exciting time for the altcoin.
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Investments News
Investing in cryptocurrency is a high-risk/high-reward activity, whether that entails day-trading in the open market, buying into institutional investment funds or investing in particular blockchain enterprises.
In recent years, the blockchain space has attempted to disrupt venture funding and investment through a particularly powerful use case in crowdfunding. An influx of hype and amateur investment reached a peak during the 2017 to 2018 initial coin offering, or ICO, bubble in which projects raised billions of dollars in return for assets of questionable value or utility, quickly putting the industry in the sights of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and similar regulatory authorities.
There is ongoing discourse on and experimentation in how to fund open-source protocol development that doesn’t involve the traditional route of venture capital and that better aligns the incentives of all stakeholders, from the developers to the users.
Seeing where investment capital is going in the space can provide a gauge of market sentiment around industry trends and potential high-growth areas.
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With the US president’s ties to his family-backed business, World Liberty Financial, and a memecoin launch, Donald Trump has seen his personal wealth increase by millions in 2025.
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Brazil’s new 17.5% flat crypto tax replaces previous exemptions and now applies to all digital asset gains.
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Belgium’s KBC Bank plans to let retail customers invest in Bitcoin and Ether via its Bolero platform, pending regulatory approval later this year.
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PancakeSwap posted $325 billion in June trading volume, its highest ever, as crosschain swaps and Solana expansion fueled growth and dominance on BNB Chain.
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Coinbase’s acquisition of Liquifi aims to address the complexity of token launches by onchain builders by making them faster and easier.
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The European Central Bank will launch a blockchain settlement pilot by late 2026 under its new Pontes initiative, aiming to connect DLT platforms with the eurozone’s core payment systems.
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The Bitcoin halving cycle is unlikely to hurt the BTC price in the second half of 2025 due to strong ETF and corporate buying, Standard Chartered forecasts.
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Michael Saylor's tech company is expected to post over $13 billion in unrealized gains from its Bitcoin holdings in the second quarter of 2025.
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Smarter Web boosted its Bitcoin treasury with an additional $24.7 million BTC purchase as part of its 10-year strategy.
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Elon Musk’s xAI secures $10 billion to expand its operations as his clash with US President Donald Trump over government spending heats up again.
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Centrifuge partners with S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch the first tokenized S&P 500 Index fund, enabling programmable onchain index-tracking products.
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Katana, a new DeFi-first layer-2 blockchain, launched with over $200 million in productive TVL, offering institutional-grade liquidity strategies and native asset support.
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BitMine Immersion Technologies raised $250 million through a private placement to establish an Ethereum treasury, signaling a shift from its previous Bitcoin-centric approach.
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Michael Saylor’s Strategy now holds 597,325 BTC, purchased for about $42.4 billion at an average price of $70,982 per coin.
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