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Cointelegraph.com - 17:49 Sep 01, 2025
According to some Republican lawmakers, the first crypto-related priority in the Senate will be to pass legislation for market structure. After a monthlong break, the US Senate and House of Representatives are scheduled to return to conducting government business, which includes key policies affecting the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Both chambers of the 119th session of the US Congress went on recess weeks ago as part of their schedule established in January. The move effectively paused any work toward passage of a bill to establish digital asset market structure, consider the nomination of Brian Quintenz to become chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and legislation containing a provision for restricting a central bank digital currency (CBDC). One of the first legislative items on Republicans’ agenda upon their return will be to pass a bill establishing crypto market structure out of a committee and for a floor vote. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:08 Sep 01, 2025
The World Liberty Financial token, WLFI, began trading on several crypto exchanges on Monday. Here’s how traders can avoid scams. After months of speculation, the Donald Trump–backed World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token began trading Monday morning. However, confusion remains around the token’s unlock schedule, supported exchanges and distinguishing the legitimate WLFI from a wave of imitations. WLFI is the native token of World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform founded in 2024. While its utility has been kept deliberately vague, the project promotes itself as a bridge between traditional finance and DeFi. WLFI functions as the platform’s governance token, giving holders voting power over protocols and strategic decisions. On Monday, the project confirmed WLFI is officially live with a total supply of 24.66 billion tokens, allocated as follows: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:01 Sep 01, 2025
Discover the richest crypto founders, tech CEOs and digital asset moguls of 2025. From CZ to Vitalik Buterin, see who tops the crypto wealth ranking. Crypto wealth in 2025 is led by exchange founders and stablecoin creators like CZ, Devasini and Armstrong. Not all crypto billionaires are CEOs — Buterin shows protocol builders can rival corporate giants. A new wave of millionaires is rising from culture, entertainment and Web3-native models like Stake.com. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:10 Sep 01, 2025
XRP price is stuck in a downtrend, with several metrics suggesting that the sell-off could continue to $2 if the support at $2.70 is lost. Key takeaways: Declining onchain activity and decreasing open interest signal potential further losses. XRP technicals warn of a drop to $2 if $2.70 support fails. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:09 Sep 01, 2025
While Europe and the US debate AI and crypto rules, Singapore deploys live systems in hospitals and refines its crypto licensing through targeted enforcement. Opinion by: Zac Cheah, co-founder of Pundi AI The West is regulating itself into irrelevance. With Europe and the United States bogged down in committee meetings and legal drafts, Southeast Asia, specifically Singapore, is running live AI pilots in hospitals, refining crypto licensing through targeted enforcement, and attracting top global talent with a governance model that works. Singapore’s secret? A sandbox-first approach that treats innovation not as a threat, but as an opportunity to be carefully tested, not endlessly theorized. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:00 Sep 01, 2025
Binance launches Medá in Mexico, a regional crypto hub and regulated fintech driving fintech innovation across Latin America. Binance, the world’s largest centralized crypto exchange (CEX) by market capitalization, is expanding its operations in Mexico by launching a new local entity and a fresh investment commitment. Binance announced the launch of its new Mexico-based entity, Medá, in a statement shared with Cointelegraph on Monday. Medá is registered as an Electronic Payment Funds Institution (IFPE) and will operate as an independent division focused on advancing fintech services for Binance throughout Latin America. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:55 Sep 01, 2025
Learn how the SEC lawsuit that threatened XRP’s existence has turned into the cryptocurrency’s biggest strength in 2025. In December 2020, XRP (XRP) was under existential threat. But what almost killed it now appears to be its greatest strategic advantage. A US Securities and Exchange Commission bombshell on Dec. 22, 2020, caused XRP to crash 62%. It led to mass delistings and put the cryptocurrency in a legal grey area. The lawsuit against XRP operator Ripple Labs alleged that it had conducted the sale of $1.3 billion worth of securities since 2013. At the time, it was the final days of the first Trump administration, and it caught the crypto industry off guard. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:42 Sep 01, 2025
The Web3 industry is on track to surpass 5 billion cryptocurrency users, driven by blockchain usability and speculation during the next bull market cycle, according to industry insiders. The cryptocurrency industry may be just one cycle away from reaching full-scale mainstream adoption, making digital assets a globally accepted alternative payment means, according to industry insiders. There were an estimated 659 million cryptocurrency holders at the end of 2025, according to a December research report from centralized exchange Crypto.com. However, continuing cryptocurrency adoption may see the industry surpass 5 billion users within the next decade, according to Thomas Prévot, head of operations in France at Crypto.com. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:16 Sep 01, 2025
Lee Eok-won, South Korea’s Financial Services Commission chief nominee, dismissed cryptocurrency as highly volatile and lacking intrinsic value. Lee Eok-won, the nominee for chairman of South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC), has made harshly critical remarks about cryptocurrency. According to a Monday report by local news outlet News1, Lee said that “crypto has extreme price volatility, lacks monetary function” and has “no intrinsic value.” He also wrote in answers questions submitted by lawmakers ahead of his confirmation hearing that “virtual assets differ from traditional financial products like deposits and securities in that they have no intrinsic value.” Lee explained that the volatility of cryptocurrencies makes it hard to imagine them acting as a store of value or medium of exchange. The report notes that the remarks attracted criticism from South Korea’s crypto industry. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:00 Sep 01, 2025
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway seems to be increasingly fearful as others become greedy, which has historically preceded big crashes in the stock market. Key takeaways: Buffett’s growing cash appetite has historically preceded stock market crashes. A potential Nasdaq downturn will likely pull down Bitcoin, too. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:25 Sep 01, 2025
Discover the top Ether holders in 2025, from staking contracts and ETF giants to public companies and early whales. Around 70% of all ETH is held by just 10 addresses, but most belong to staking contracts, exchanges or funds, not individual whales. Nearly half of all ETH sits in a single smart contract: the Beacon Deposit Contract that powers Ethereum’s proof-of-stake system. Big institutions like BlackRock, Fidelity and listed companies now hold millions of ETH, turning Ether into a serious treasury asset. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:20 Sep 01, 2025
Metaplanet, Japan’s largest Bitcoin treasury firm, bought 1,009 BTC to reach 20,000 BTC in holdings while issuing millions of new shares. Japan’s top Bitcoin treasury firm, Metaplanet, just acquired 1,009 BTC, reaching 20,000 BTC of holdings just as the firm issues millions of new shares. According to a Monday Metaplanet announcement, the firm acquired 1,009 BTC and reached 20,000 BTC for 16.479 billion yen (nearly $112 million). On the same day, the firm announced the issuance of 11.5 million new shares last week, following an investor’s exercise of warrants to acquire stock. According to BitcoinTreasuries.net data, Metaplanet is currently the sixth biggest and top Japanese Bitcoin treasury. The firm paid an average price of $102,607 per Bitcoin, which results in a 6.75% profit compared to Bitcoin’s price at the time of writing. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:38 Sep 01, 2025
A mysterious mega-whale is rotating billions from Bitcoin into Ether, signaling a broader shift as corporate and institutional investors boost ETH holdings. A Bitcoin whale has been accumulating billions of dollars’ worth of Ether, surpassing the second-largest corporate treasury firm, signaling a growing rotation among large investors seeking cryptocurrencies with more upside potential. A Bitcoin whale worth over $11 billion sold another $215 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) to buy $216 million worth of spot Ether (ETH) on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid. Following the latest buy, the whale now holds 886,371 Ether worth more than $4 billion, Lookonchain reported on Monday in an X post. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:19 Sep 01, 2025
Bitcoin is overshadowed by gold again in 2025 as BTC price action sees new multi-week lows to start a traditionally "red" September. Bitcoin (BTC) starts the weakest month of the year with new local lows and predictions of more BTC price downside. Bitcoin drops to $107,270 after the weekly open before rebounding as volatility ramps up. The US Labor Day holiday keeps traders guessing over how markets will react to fresh US tariff chaos. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:15 Sep 01, 2025
Crypto ETPs logged nearly $2.5 billion in inflows last week, reversing prior outflows, as investors poured into Ether, Bitcoin, Solana and XRP products. Cryptocurrency investment products attracted renewed inflows last week, offsetting the prior week’s $1.4 billion outflows. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) logged $2.48 billion in inflows last week, data from CoinShares showed Monday. Despite inflows, Bitcoin (BTC) struggled in terms of market price, slipping under $108,000 after briefly trading above $113,000 earlier in the week, according to CoinGecko data. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:03 Sep 01, 2025
World Liberty Financial published a blog post saying that the initial circulating supply for WLFI is 24.6 billion tokens. Update Sept. 1, 12:40 pm UTC: This article has been updated to add information from a WLFI blog post on Medium. World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform backed by the Trump family, will unlock 24.6 billion WLFI tokens at launch, according to data confirmed by CoinMarketCap. On Monday, WLFI clarified that the initial circulating supply for its token will be 24.6 billion tokens. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 08:48 Sep 01, 2025
Bitcoin’s MVRV metric signals weaker momentum as BTC price shows signs of exhaustion and a potential cycle top, yet not all indicators are bearish. Key takeaways: Bitcoin's MVRV death cross signals bearish momentum, historically preceding big price corrections. However, the MVRV Z-Score remains well below historical peak levels. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 06:46 Sep 01, 2025
Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal also predicted that total crypto market capitalization could reach $100 trillion within the next decade. The total number of crypto users could hit the 4 billion mark by 2030, according to former hedge fund manager and crypto bull Raoul Pal. In an X post on Sunday, Pal shared data comparing the adoption rate of crypto users to internet users after each innovation hit 5 million users. Pal did this by looking at the number of crypto wallets compared to the number of IP addresses. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:41 Sep 01, 2025
Solana’s Alpenglow protocol looks set to pass, with over 99% of cast votes in favor of the proposal that seeks to bring Solana’s transaction finality in line with Google search speeds. Solana’s Alpenglow proposal, which seeks to slash the blockchain’s transaction finality to around 150 milliseconds, is expected to proceed after 99% have voted in support of it, with just two days left for voting. The Alpenglow consensus protocol was unveiled in May by Anza — a Solana development firm spun out of Solana Labs — and has been described by ecosystem members as the biggest protocol upgrade in Solana’s history. It would slash the current finality from 12.8 seconds to just 150 milliseconds, a near 100-fold speed increase that could put it on par with current internet infrastructure. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:30 Aug 31, 2025
Businesses are outstripping miner output several times over, potentially triggering a supply shock if exchange reserves continue to dwindle. Private businesses and public companies are absorbing Bitcoin (BTC) nearly four times faster than the rate at which miners are producing new coins, according to Bitcoin financial services company River. These businesses included publicly traded Bitcoin treasury companies and conventional or private businesses, which collectively purchased 1,755 BTC per day on average in 2025, according to River. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other investment vehicles also bought an additional 1,430 BTC per day on average in 2025, and governments purchased about 39 BTC per day, River’s data shows. Read more
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