UFC Freedom 250 paid fighter bonuses in USD1, the stablecoin issued by the Trump-linked crypto venture World Liberty Financial, at a contest held at the White House.
The purchases were likely funded by selling other positions, data shows. ARK is also one of the loudest bitcoin bulls, with a million-dollar target for 2030.
A large build-up of speculative short positions in the yen raises the risk of a sharp short squeeze if the BOJ signals more aggressive tightening, potentially unwinding yen-funded carry trades that support risk assets.
XRP extended its rebound from recent lows on the strongest buying activity in weeks, with institutional flows and ETF demand supporting a push toward the $1.20 level.
The concept, called Predictive Allocation, will encourage participants to anticipate where liquidity will be needed next, instead of rewarding them for directing incentives toward pools that have already generated fees.
Former SEC lawyers say that using its power to grant tokenization "innovation" efforts an exemption from securities law isn't as strong as a full-fledged rule.
Not all crypto exchange executives agree, but the data does not lie: centralized exchange trading volumes dropped more than 11% to $4.61 trillion, their lowest since late 2024.
Anthropic’s new Claude Fable 5 puts powerful cyber tools behind safety filters. DeFi, already hit by more than $840 million in hacks this year, is one of the industries with the most to lose if the filters fail.
The largest company on public markets now holds bitcoin as a treasury reserve, not as a business model. Its first earnings cycles will test which version of corporate crypto survives a bear market.
In an interview with CoinDesk, Etherealize cofounder Vivek Raman said Ethereum is currently in a transitional phase where the infrastructure has largely been built, but the scale of adoption has yet to be fully reflected in ETH itself.
Tokenization is laying the groundwork for autonomous investing and real-time portfolio management, Ondo's new head of portfolio products John Hoffman said.
John Palmer, head of derivatives at Kraken, said he expects sophisticated traders to lead adoption of newly approved U.S. perpetual futures, with broader institutional participation likely to follow over time.