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Annual equity-ETF sales will rise from about ¥330 billion to ¥860 billion at book value from January 2027, with safeguards limiting immediate-shock claims. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Using a bank card to buy crypto takes a few minutes, but deciding where to make the purchase may require a bit more consideration. Platforms differ in fees and speed, and rules aren’t the same in every country. This review examines Paybis from a card buyer’s perspective, covering payment methods, supported nations, available cryptocurrencies, and …
Bitcoin circled $77,000 as crypto markets navigated US stock-market downside, while the gold price fell to its lowest in a year. Bitcoin (BTC) stayed under pressure below $80,000 at Friday’s Wall Street open as AI fears returned to intensify a broader risk-asset rout. Key points:
Ethereum has slipped toward $2.2K after another wave of selling extended the decline from the $2.8K highs. With ETH now trading inside a key demand zone that also aligns with the lower boundary of its short-term descending channel, the current area could decide whether the correction stabilizes or deepens toward lower support. Meanwhile, the Coinbase …
Remaining positions face automatic closure on January 22, 2027, while the March 5 withdrawal cutoff leaves earlier batch restrictions intact. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Today, we take a closer look at Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Binance Coin, and Hyperliquid. Ethereum (ETH) Markets turned turbulent today after Binance experienced the largest hack ever recorded at over $6 billion. Ethereum was quick to react, falling by 7% on the weekly timeframe. The current resistance is found at $2,400, and this level used …
CZ linked a claimed billion-dollar-plus holding to Binance’s Twitter investment; Yi He said annual revenue was sufficient to cover losses. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
EIP-7702 lets ordinary Ethereum wallets run smart contract code, enabling batched and sponsored transactions. Here's how it works.
Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald, TD Cowen and Compass Point say the $6.3 billion Binance hack is unlikely to derail the crypto market's recovery.
he Federal Reserve asked for more information before changing interest rates. Eighteen and a half hours later, the economy supplied it: growth was strong, inflation remained elevated, and households were spending more without buying much more. But before investors could settle what that combination meant for Bitcoin, a Binance security breach raised a more immediate… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Even as the largest exchange hack in history continues, Elon Musk’s Grok AI predicts something potentially historic could happen to Bitcoin by January 1, 2027. The Binance hack currently stands at $6.3Bn in stolen funds against over $3Bn in frozen assets, and the exchange’s proactive response has muted the market’s reaction to such a monumental …
A US fusion startup says it has turned mercury into gold. Could a potential increase in the gold supply strengthen Bitcoin’s claim to be a better form of digital gold? They say all that glitters is not gold, and that took on a completely different meaning this month when a US fusion startup claimed it had produced gold from mercury. Rather than chemical trickery, Marathon Fusion’s process relies on nuclear transmutation. Its research paper describes how high-energy neutrons from a deuterium-tritium fusion reaction can irradiate mercury-198, producing a radioactive isotope that decays into stable gold-197. So, if gold has what some are calling an “infinite mint bug,” what will happen to the centuries-old metal so revered for its scarcity? And what, if anything, could that mean for Bitcoin a…
It was a big week for Ripple but the token behind it failed to make a proper move north.
Binance is working with law enforcement to recover $3 billion that is frozen, after setting aside more than $6.3 billion from the company’s funds to cover the shortfall. Binance is working with the FBI to help recover some of the funds stolen in the record $6.3 billion exploit, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. Cointelegraph contacted the FBI for more details about the collaboration but had not received a response by the time of publication. The cryptocurrency exchange revealed its cooperation with law enforcement in a Friday X post, without specifying the agencies involved.
Israel's Supreme Court ruled that exploiting a coding flaw can count as computer intrusion, even when the software allowed the transaction.
An agent alleges he confirmed Utah before trading and paying a fee, while the CFTC contests state authority. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
The exchange said it set aside more than $6.34 billion to cover losses and would include the assets in its next proof-of-reserves report. Binance said Friday that it had set aside more than $6.34 billion in company funds to cover losses from its hack, with $5 billion already in held in the same tokens stolen. “The $5 billion is held in the exact token assets that are required. These assets are in Binance custody,” a Binance spokesperson told Cointelegraph. Binance did not disclose when it acquired the assets.
Just as Hyperliquid opened the door to a fully regulated perps offering inside the U.S., Binance suffered the biggest hack in crypto history.
Both firms blame the group behind the Bybit hack, as Binance says it has set aside $6.34 billion of its own funds to cover user losses.
Binance said it reserved its own funds to cover the $6.3 billion hack, including freezes of roughly $3 billion in stolen assets.
