Showing U.S. households that bitcoin BTC$77,553.91 had gained 14% over the previous year made them more likely to buy crypto, offering evidence that past returns can pull new investors into the market. According to a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland working paper, researchers randomly divided participants in a 2025 survey into a control group and
The following is a guest post and opinion from Vincent Maliepaard, VP of Marketing at Sentora. Tokenized funds have stopped being a novelty. Tokenized US Treasury funds alone now hold roughly $16 billion in distributed value and the list of issuers includes most of the largest names in traditional asset management. Issuance is a solved
An eCash fork, which would create a separate ECX asset for Bitcoin holders, produced Alpha-chain blocks from height 963,648 on Aug. 23. The permanent fork did not happen: the project’s current roadmap now places the 1:1 allocation of permanent ECX at a Mainnet launch around Bitcoin block 973,728 on Oct. 31. For holders, miners and
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said on Aug. 23 that several developing economies increasingly rely on $USDT for domestic commerce, international trade and dollar denominated savings. “The economies of several developing countries rely heavily on $USDT, both for domestic and foreign trade,” Ardoino wrote in a post. He said Tether’s financial inclusion mission was becoming more
Stablecoin-focused digital bank Fasset said Monday it has raised $68 million in a funding round led by Japan’s SBI Group, valuing the company at $1 billion just three months after its previous financing. The investment follows a $51 million round in May, bringing Fasset’s total funding this year to $119 million. Early backer Speedinvest and
Bitcoin eased to just above $77,100 in Asian morning hours Monday, down marginally on the day but up over 21% on the week, as traders held off ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s first Jackson Hole address. Warsh speaks at Jackson Hole this week in his first appearance there as chair, with traders looking
This week, the crypto market is gearing up for an information-rich week, as a number of key U.S. economic indicators are expected to shape Fed policy expectations. Bitcoin and other risk assets may see more volatile movement as investors evaluate inflation, economic growth and labor market conditions.
Digital Asset, the creator of the Canton Network, and former US House Speaker Paul Ryan’s American Idea Foundation plan to pilot a blockchain-based system for distributing state-administered benefits across three US states using Canton, as reported by Cointelegraph. Inside the RISE program The RISE program is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2027