Bitcoin has performed well in the face of a bleak news cycle while stablecoin assets in the crypto ecosystem continue to grow. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,515 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping…

As decentralized finance (defi) has become more popular, digital currency proponents are making money off of more than 140 yield-bearing cryptocurrencies. While most of the defi ecosystem revolves around the Ethereum network, a number of…

Bitcoin price is currently back over $10,500, holding on after a brief crash to under $10,400 on the heels of several pieces of extremely negative news. The recent news normally would be enough to send…

Yearn.Finance (YFI) has stolen the attention away from most other DeFi tokens, Ethereum, and Bitcoin thanks to an amazing run where tens of thousands per coin in value were added. But the Ethereum-based ERC20 token…

The shallow pullback in Bitcoin (BTC) following the news of the CFTC’s regulatory crackdown on BitMEX and the late announcement that U.S. President Donald Trump tested positive for coronavirus shows that the underlying sentiment is…

BitMEX is in hot water with the CFTC and DOJ. Thursday, a dual agency operation levied charges against the derivatives exchange and several employees for facilitating unregistered trading and violating the Bank Secrecy Act.  Elsewhere, another…

For Democrats, it was a moment of truth. For Republicans, it was “fake news.”  Among some members of the crypto commentariat, there was a very different reaction to The New York Times’ recent scoop on…

Crypto intelligence firm Chainalysis and data forensics company Integra Fec have won a combined $1.25 million contract to provide tools that break the privacy-focused coin, monero, for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Floated early…