Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis has introduced a law that could codify an order from a US housing regulatory agency for mortgage purchasers to consider digital assets in applications. In a Tuesday notice, Lummis said her proposed bill, the 21st Century Mortgage Act, would take congressional action following a June order from the US Federal Housing…
Trading and investing platform eToro has announced plans to launch tokenized US stocks as ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. The upcoming rollout will include the 100 most popular US-listed stocks and ETFs, tradable 24/5 as blockchain-based assets, the company said on Tuesday. According to eToro, users will eventually be able to transfer tokenized stocks…
Key takeaways: The dominance of Ether’s futures volume surpassed Bitcoin for the first time since 2022. Tron-ecosystem stablecoin activity rose, pointing to capital inflows into the altcoin ecosystem. Ether (ETH) has gained everyone’s attention over the past few weeks, with new data showing a clear shift away from Bitcoin (BTC) as the biggest altcoin by…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved in-kind creation and redemption for cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs), giving authorized representatives the ability to exchange shares directly for the underlying crypto assets instead of cash. In a Tuesday announcement, the securities regulator stated that approved Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) funds will be permitted to…
Key takeaways: The dominance of Ether’s futures volume surpassed Bitcoin for the first time since 2022. Tron-ecosystem stablecoin activity rose, pointing to capital inflows into the altcoin ecosystem. Ether (ETH) has gained everyone’s attention over the past few weeks, with new data showing a clear shift away from Bitcoin (BTC) as the biggest altcoin by…
Before Roman Storm’s defense attorneys rested their case on Tuesday, one matter that seemed to provoke some controversy in the courtroom was a T-shirt the Tornado Cash co-founder and developer wore at a crypto event in 2019. During opening statements in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, both prosecutors and…
BitMine Immersion (BMNR), a Bitcoin mining company and Ethereum’s largest publicly traded holder, has announced the approval of an open-ended $1 billion stock buyback program to repurchase its outstanding shares through open market or negotiated transactions. With shares trading below the company’s net asset value (NAV), BitMine has opted to repurchase its stock rather than…
Key takeaways: The dominance of Ether’s futures volume surpassed Bitcoin for the first time since 2022. Tron-ecosystem stablecoin activity rose, pointing to capital inflows into the altcoin ecosystem. Ether (ETH) has gained everyone’s attention over the past few weeks, with new data showing a clear shift away from Bitcoin (BTC) as the biggest altcoin by…
Key points: Bitcoin is preparing for a range expansion in the next few days, and the trend favors the bulls. ETH, BNB, AVAX, and PENGU are looking set for a possible upside move. Bitcoin (BTC) has failed to break above $120,000, but a positive sign is that the bulls have not ceded much ground to…
The Senate Agriculture Committee has pulled a planned hearing on Brian Quintenz’s nomination to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), following a request from the White House just days before lawmakers leave for August recess. In an update to the committee’s schedule on Monday, chair John Boozman and ranking member Amy Klobuchar said lawmakers…