Markets
Bitcoin slid below the $71,000 mark late Wednesday, reaching its lowest level since October 2024 as selling pressure intensified across global financial markets. The decline reflects a broader shift away from risk assets rather than a single crypto-specific trigger, according to market analysts. The world’s largest cryptocurrency dropped
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Markets
Crypto markets remain under pressure following a sharp, broad-based selloff, but analysts say the bigger story is not the drop in prices. Instead, it is the growing fragmentation in liquidity, capital flows, and performance across exchanges and digital assets. Bitcoin has fallen more than 17% over the past week, trading
Security
Crypto analytics firm TRM Labs has reached unicorn status following a $70 million Series C funding round led by Blockchain Capital, underscoring rising global demand for tools that help track illicit activity across digital asset markets. The funding values TRM Labs at $1 billion and comes at a time when
Markets
Bitcoin’s latest pullback is stirring familiar concerns across the crypto market, with some investors warning that the asset may be slipping back into its traditional four-year boom-and-bust cycle. Yet according to research firm K33, the current downturn looks meaningfully different from past bear markets, making a repeat of an
DeFi
Ripple has taken a notable step into decentralized finance by integrating Hyperliquid into its Ripple Prime brokerage platform. The move marks the first time Ripple Prime has directly supported a DeFi venue, signaling growing institutional interest in accessing onchain markets through familiar, regulated-style infrastructure. With the new integration, Ripple Prime
Opinion
Coinbase is facing fresh regulatory scrutiny in the United States after Nevada’s top gaming regulator filed a civil lawsuit accusing the crypto exchange of offering unlicensed sports betting through its prediction market products. The Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) filed the complaint this week, seeking to block Coinbase from
AI
Rackspace’s recent blog posts offer a practical look at how artificial intelligence is being used behind the scenes to tackle long-standing operational problems. Rather than focusing on consumer-facing features or experimental tools, the company frames AI as an operational discipline aimed at improving service delivery, security operations, and cloud
Finance
Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, is rethinking its long-discussed fundraising ambitions after potential investors pushed back on a proposed $500 billion valuation. According to the Financial Times, advisers are now circulating a far more modest capital raise of about $5 billion, a sharp reduction from earlier
AI
FedEx is stepping up its use of artificial intelligence to tackle two of the most complex challenges in modern logistics: real-time package tracking and efficient returns management. The initiative, reported by PYMNTS, focuses on large enterprise shippers that move high volumes of goods and need more visibility, predictability, and control
Security
A federal judge in New York has sentenced the founder of Incognito Market, a cryptocurrency-based dark web marketplace, to 30 years in prison for operating a global narcotics operation that prosecutors say generated more than $105 million in illegal drug sales. Rui-Siang Lin, 24, who ran the platform under the
Finance
Crypto asset manager Bitwise Asset Management is set to acquire institutional staking provider Chorus One, a move that strengthens Bitwise’s push into yield-generating digital asset products as institutional interest in staking continues to grow. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, according to a report from Bloomberg. Bitwise