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Trump’s CFTC nominee Brian Quintenz says blockchain will reshape industries beyond finance and calls for clear crypto rules to protect US leadership.

Bitcoin demand in the US is rising, while spot exchanges see their reserves decline by one third in less than a year, per new data from CryptoQuant.

The funds are on top of the $25 million that Ripple committed last month to education nonprofit organizations in the US.

Société Générale’s crypto arm launches its USDCV stablecoin on Ethereum and Solana, with BNY as custodian and a global rollout aimed at trading and settlement.

Other narratives of interest on social media included the accumulation of crypto by whales like millionaire crypto trader James Wynn, Solana, Loud Token and various memecoins.

South Korea’s ruling party under new president Lee Jae-myung is pushing legislation to allow local stablecoin issuance and boost crypto market growth.

Bitfinex analysts say that Bitcoin holders who bought in Q1 are now being tested as “the price churns sideways near ATH levels.”

Fund manager Canary Capital has taken a typical first step for an ETF, creating a Delaware trust for a fund that would stake the Injective token.

Five members of an international crypto scam ring are accused of stealing nearly $37 million from American victims and sending the funds to Cambodia.

Amazon made similar commitments in North Carolina, with $10 billion earmarked to expand its data center infrastructure in the US State.

New York City-based Bitcoin investment company Parataxis Holdings is exploring a public listing via merging with SilverBox Corp IV, a special purpose acquisition company.

Crypto-tied US companies gained alongside Bitcoin on Monday, as public firms continued to scoop up the cryptocurrency.

BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF milestone came shortly after the fund wrapped up a massive 31-day inflow streak.

The amount of Ethereum now staked is almost 30% of the current circulating supply, reaching a new record this week.

Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins also bashed the previous administration under former SEC Chair Gary Gensler and its approach to crypto.

The UK Insolvency Service has hired a former police investigator to help creditors recover cryptocurrency from failed companies and criminal cases.

Evita Pay founder Iurii Gugnin has been accused of using sanctioned Russian banks to launder millions into the US, with the funds used in part to undermine American interests.

Paul Atkins called the right to self-custody a “foundational American value” when addressing regulators and industry leaders discussing DeFi.

Digital asset infrastructure companies have seen more attention in recent years, with some fundraises in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Pavel Durov’s first since being indicted on six charges in 2024, said his company did nothing wrong.

Two bills in the US Congress considering stablecoins and a digital asset regulatory framework will reach crucial stages this week after long debates and controversies.

Rising futures open interest, robust spot ETH ETF flows, and a bullish technical analysis indicator forecast an Ethereum price rally to $3,000.

Bitcoin’s correlation to stocks and uncertainty about the future of the US economy could cap BTC price gains below $110,000.

An uptick in long-term Bitcoin holders and BTC’s start-of-week price break above $108,000 could be a sign that new highs are in order.

An X post by Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña claimed the country had recognized Bitcoin as legal tender, but the official government account soon urged users to “dismiss any recently published content.”

The study involving Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol is one of many initiatives exploring use cases for a potential Hong Kong CBDC, or e-HKD.

Bitcoin price pushed through a critical overhead resistance level, possibly opening the door to new all-time highs.

Shares of NCPL surged more than 16% on the news of the Mixie acquisition and are up 48% year-to-date.

Analysts say Bitcoin could break its all-time high within 1–2 weeks, following breakout patterns seen recently in gold and the S&P 500.

New legislation in Washington would have the CFTC regulate crypto, but is it currently able to provide effective rulemaking?