Crypto

Litecoin’s security is strong, transactions are growing, institutions are adopting LTC, and the network is expanding its reach.

Ethereum ETF soars to $10B, MicroStrategy eyes $2.5B Bitcoin spree, and MARA stock tumbles on debt news in this week's crypto market roundup.

Hive Digital Technologies, the first publicly traded Bitcoin miner, marks a major milestone at Nasdaq as it accelerates its HPC expansion. Hive Digital Technologies (HIVE) has many firsts in the crypto industry. It was the first publicly traded Bitcoin miner in 2017 and one of the earliest to make a decisive pivot into high-performance computing (HPC) in 2022. Now, Hive is back in the spotlight, ringing the closing bell at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange as it eyes a $100 million annual run rate for its HPC business by next year. Cointelegraph received an exclusive invitation to the Nasdaq event, where we sat down with Executive Chairman Frank Holmes and CEO Aydin Kilic. The two discussed the mining industry’s escalating “scramble for electricity and land,” Bitcoin’s (BTC) evolving role as a reserve asset, and the challenges of still being viewed as a Bitcoin proxy stock in 2025. Read more

Pump.fun’s PUMP token has dropped by over 63% since its highly anticipated ICO. Where does it go from here? Here’s what the charts say.

Data shows the market still favors ETH even after Bitcoin’s sharp sell-off to $115,000. Key takeaways: Ether’s bullish structure remains intact even as the broader crypto market shows weakness. Over 540,000 ETH have been accumulated by new whale wallets since July 9. Read more

The investor warned against fraudulent paper claims made on hard assets, but ETF analysts told Cointelegraph that the fear is unfounded. Investor and financial educator Robert Kiyosaki warned of the potential danger from holding paper Bitcoin (BTC) and precious metals through instruments such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Kiyosaki said that although ETFs make certain asset classes more accessible to investors and lower the barrier to entry, the investor does not physically hold the underlying asset. He wrote on Friday: In May, he told investors to ditch “fake money” for bearer assets like BTC, gold and silver to counteract the effects of inflation and the decline of the US dollar. Read more

Bitcoin's dominance lost a key level, and confirmation could ignite a broader altcoin season, a Coinbase analyst noted.

Venture capital firm Dragonfly said Friday that the U.S. government is weighing potential charges over its 2020 investment in PepperSec, the developer of Tornado Cash, marking a rare instance where federal prosecutors may target a venture investor for backing a crypto project. In a detailed statement, Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi called the prospect of […] The post Venture investor Dragonfly faces potential charges over Tornado Cash involvement appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Dogecoin eyes $0.46 breakout as double bottom pattern forms; $0.26 remains the key level to reclaim.

Windtree Therapeutics has said it is raising another $520 million to buy up BNB, the fifth-largest digital coin, to put on its balance sheet.

Dragonfly Capital’s early investment in Tornado Cash could expose the firm to potential legal action from the DOJ. Dragonfly Capital could be the target of federal charges stemming from its early investment in Tornado Cash developer PepperSec, Inc., but the venture firm says it is prepared to “vigorously defend” itself if prosecutors pursue the case. In a Friday social media post, Dragonfly Capital managing partner Haseeb Qureshi defended the firm’s early backing of Tornado Cash — an open-source protocol that allows users to obscure blockchain transactions — dating back to August 2020. “We made this investment because we believe in the importance of open-source privacy-preserving technology,” said Qureshi, adding that the company had consulted outside legal counsel before investing and was assured Tornado Cash was compliant. Read more

BlackRock's crypto head is leaving the financial giant to join Ethereum treasury company SharpLink Gaming as its co-CEO.

Has BTC outgrown the cycle theory?

Bitcoin is at risk of losing the $115,000 support, raising the chance that the recently started altcoin season could abruptly end. Key points: Bitcoin has pulled back into the $115,000 to $110,530 support zone, where buyers are expected to mount a strong defense. ETH has been holding near the overhead resistance as investors pour money into the spot ETH ETFs. Read more

Reporting from the New York courtroom suggested that the Tornado Cash developer could wrap up his defense in a few days, but whether he would take the stand was still unclear. Defense attorneys representing Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm will reportedly rest their case sometime next week, sending the matter to the jury. According to reporting from Inner City Press on Friday, Judge Katherine Failla said she expected to hear closing statements from prosecutors and Storm’s legal team on Tuesday or Wednesday. The timeline gives the Tornado Cash co-founder roughly five days to present his defense in court. Whether Storm intends to take the stand in his own defense was unclear as of Friday. Before his trial started, the Tornado Cash co-founder gave an interview in which he said he “may or may not” testify.  Read more

Bettors on the Polygon-based prediction market Polymarket are assigning a 96.3% probability that the Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged at its July 29–30 meeting, according to the platform’s contract covering the decision.  On top of the percentage of bets on “no change,” the platform’s dashboard shows 3% betting on a 25‑basis‑point cut, and less […] The post Polymarket shows 96.3% odds of no rate cut next week despite Trump claiming Fed is ‘ready’ to ease appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Vietnam has launched NDAChain, a permissioned Layer 1 blockchain to support its national digital infrastructure, according to a press release published by NDAChain on July 25.The platform is operated by the Data Innovation and Exploitation Center under the Ministry of Public Security and developed by the National Data Association. Mix of Centralization and DecentralizationNDAChain is […] The post Vietnam Launches National Blockchain for Data Infrastructure appeared first on Cryptonews.

A Florida purveyor of theme park goods is getting a new life thanks to Justin Sun's Tron. But you wouldn't know it from the office space.

The company had to restrict the majority of its crypto services for customers in Hungary earlier in July due to new legislation in the country being enforced.

The passage of the GENIUS Act is bringing renewed investor interest to Ether and Ethereum-native yield-generating opportunities. Institutional interest in cryptocurrencies was piqued after “Crypto Week” in the US saw the passage of the industry’s key stablecoin bill, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins, or GENIUS Act. Signed into law by US President Donald Trump on July 18, the GENIUS Act bans yield-bearing stablecoins in the world’s largest economy, which may increase the demand for Ether (ETH) and Ethereum-based yield-generating decentralized finance protocols, according to industry watchers. Signaling growing demand for the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, a group of crypto researchers and public market experts announced the launch of the largest yield-bearing Ether fund for institutional investors, called Ether Machine. Read more