Tether, the company behind the USDT stablecoin USDT$1.0006, is working with crypto miner financing firm Antalpha to raise at least $200 million for a new digital asset treasury for tokenized gold, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The planned vehicle would stockpile XAUT$3,753.81, a blockchain-based token backed by physical gold bars under
Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. In this week’s roundup, we’ve got the latest on CME, Walmart’s crypto play (for real this time), and Robinhood flying high: All-time highs for HOOD Stock and crypto trading app Robinhood saw a new all-time high this week on
Bitcoin price is edging closer to new all-time highs, supported by a rise in open interest. With price action holding above key levels, the market structure remains firmly bullish. Summary Bitcoin is testing $123,348 resistance, the last key barrier before new all-time highs. Channel structure remains bullish, with consecutive higher highs and higher lows. Open
Fed officials continue to emphasize the need for cautious monetary policy. Fed Vice Chairman Philip Jefferson said today that the economy is facing two challenging challenges simultaneously: a weakening labor market and above-target inflation. Jefferson stated that the current outlook is characterized by high uncertainty, but that this uncertainty will diminish as the White House’s
Michael Saylor, the man whose corporate treasury has become almost synonymous with Bitcoin itself, is asking just one question as 2025 reaches its final quarter: “Will BTC close the year above $150,000?” His poll has already gotten over 42,000 votes, with three out of every four people saying they think the world’s biggest cryptocurrency can
The State Bank of Vietnam, the country’s central bank, anticipates credit growth of about 20% in 2025, a move that could see liquidity flow into global crypto markets amid rising adoption in the region. Pham Thanh Ha, deputy governor of the central bank, said Friday that interest rates need to be slashed further to encourage
Bitcoin nears record $124K after strong September and Uptober surge. Institutional ETF inflows and corporate buys fuel bullish momentum. Analysts project $160K–$200K if demand growth continues in Q4. Bitcoin (BTC) has stormed into the final quarter of 2025 with the kind of momentum that traders had hoped for, breaking through the $120,000 barrier and reigniting
Naval Ravikant earned millions of impressions for a controversial assertion this week that Zcash (ZEC) is insurance against Bitcoin (BTC). Almost nobody agreed with him. In various posts on social media, the crypto community pointed out the differences between insurance and price performance, the positive correlation between ZEC and BTC, the inferior performance of ZEC,
“Uptober” is off to a roaring start. Bitcoin shot up in price Friday afternoon, rapidly spiking from a price of about $120,000 to a recent peak of $123,855—but fell just short of breaking the all-time price record. Bitcoin was recently trading for $122,346 after giving up some of the gains. It’s up 1.3% on the
Although digital assets continue to attract record interest from institutional investors, traditional banks and corporations, venture capital activity in the sector has slowed notably since the first quarter. Galaxy Research’s latest VC report showed that crypto and blockchain startups raised a total of $1.97 billion across 378 deals in the second quarter. That represents a