The cryptocurrency market ended last week with a massive loss of billions of dollars. Bitcoin’s market capitalization plummeted by $235 billion, sparking a major debate within the sector. Industry representatives and analysts are completely divided on the reasons behind this sharp sell-off. Prominent figures in the cryptocurrency industry, Bill Barhydt, Andrew Parish, and Tillman Holloway,
Five years ago yesterday, El Salvador’s Congress voted 62-to-22 to pass the world’s first Bitcoin Law, making the small Central American nation the first country on earth to grant bitcoin legal tender status. The date was June 8, 2021. Half a decade later, the government holds 7,677 $BTC worth approximately $480 million — and it
Canton and public Ethereum solve the same core problem — settling transactions between parties who do not fully trust each other, but they make opposite architectural choices to do it. Ethereum exposes every transaction to every participant on a shared global ledger, which makes its composability deep and open. Canton partitions state by privacy rules,
Second, a Bitcoin development lab, has officially launched Bark — its implementation of the Ark protocol — on the Bitcoin mainnet, opening up self-custodial bitcoin payments to developers and everyday users alike without the complexity traditionally associated with Lightning Network or on-chain transactions. Bark is built on the Ark protocol, a layer-2 solution that allows
Trad.Fi, which lends money to companies buying heavy equipment, said it is working with W3, a developer of AI agents for enterprises, to deploy $650 million in private credit onchain over the next 48 months. The program targets the heavily paper-based U.S. equipment distribution sector, focusing on manufacturing systems, industrial electrical infrastructure and residential solar
Bitcoin continues to flash warning signs, according to Quinn Thompson, CIO at Lekker Capital, as his fund remains firmly bearish on crypto heading into the summer. Thompson argues that the market faces a combination of structural challenges, including ongoing digital asset treasury (DAT) concerns, unresolved questions about Strategy’s preferred stock STRC, and lingering fears about
Blockchain-based lending protocol Morpho said it raised $175 million in a funding round co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto and Ribbit Capital, as investors bet that credit markets will increasingly move onchain. The round also included Apollo Funds, Circle Ventures, VanEck and Ledger Cathay, according to a post on the Morpho blog. Morpho operates an open
Bitcoin, which experienced a drop of approximately $18,000 in about 10 days, is the subject of much debate regarding the reasons for its decline. While some argue that Strategy’s sell-off was the main reason for the decline in Bitcoin, others claim that these sales were not the primary cause of the drop. At this point,
Bitcoin’s recent weakness is being driven by softer capital flows rather than concerns over quantum computing or other risks, according to Wall Street broker Bernstein. Growing concerns that future quantum computers could eventually break the cryptography underpinning Bitcoin have become a recurring topic in crypto markets, especially after recent research from Google suggested the computational
The line between traditional finance (TradFi) and crypto is disappearing, with tokenization consistently a dominant narrative of the digital asset industry for a number of years. Edwin Mata, CEO and founder of tokenization platform Brickken, projects that Wall Street will run entirely on blockchain technology by 2030. Mata told CoinDesk that tech industry buzzwords like