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If Vitalik Buterin were starting Ethereum today, he would struggle to raise funds owing to the shift in crypto’s focus from innovation to influencer-driven marketing.

Think back through Bitcoin’s history. I guarantee you a handful of events just popped into your mind first, like landmarks. If you kept thinking your mind probably started filling in from there with those landmark events as anchors. Don’t take these as hard predictions, ignore the coating of hyperbole I can’t stop myself from adding … Read more

Australian elections are almost here and members of Australia’s 48th Parliament will be chosen at the 2025 federal election. This will take place on or before 17 May 2025. As Australia gears up for  federal election, a new YouGov poll suggests that cryptocurrency investors could play a pivotal role in determining the outcome, much like … Read more

Tether has backed the $10 million round for cross-border payments firm Mansa. Venture capital firm Polymorphic co-led the round, which saw investors raise $7 million to add to $3 million raised earlier. Tether, issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, led the $10 million funding round of MANSA, a cross-border payments provider. MANSA announced the … Read more

Explore the informal hawala remittance and transaction market and the challenges that it poses when combined with cryptocurrencies.

So far, 2025 has been a mixed year for Nvidia, one of the world’s leading semiconductor companies. The chipmaker is, arguably, the business that capitalized the most on the most dominant narrative in the financial markets today — artificial intelligence (AI). With that being said, it has become increasingly hard for the Jensen Huang-led venture … Read more

The current altcoin downtrend “points towards possible capitulation as overleveraged positions are flushed out,” analysts told Cointelegraph.

Treehouse CEO Brandon Goh says that fixed income could be DeFi’s missing link to more widespread adoption, particularly at an institutional level, in the latest episode of Hashing It Out.

Although in their infancy,  134 countries are now exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).  That’s 46 more countries than this time last year.  Like it or not, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are on track to dominate. Their rise won’t just shake up traditional money—it could reshape the future for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, … Read more

Japanese investment firm Metaplanet Inc. has expanded its bitcoin holdings to 2,100 BTC (worth approximately $203 million) after purchasing an additional 68.59 BTC ($6.6 million), reaffirming its commitment to cryptocurrency as a core treasury asset. Metaplanet’s Bitcoin Reserves Hit 2,100 BTC Amid Aggressive Acquisition Strategy Metaplanet disclosed the latest acquisition, executed at an average price … Read more