Bitcoin, Altcoins Soar After Iran Opens Strait of Hormuz

Key points: Bitcoin soared above $76,000, opening the doors for a further rally toward $84,000. Several major altcoins are showing strength, signaling broad-based buying by the bulls. Bitcoin (BTC) skyrocketed above the $76,000 resistance on Friday after Iran’s foreign minister said that the Strait of Hormuz will remain open for the remainder of the ceasefire…

Tokenization Doesn’t Fix Illiquid Assets: PBW 2026

Tokenization does not automatically make hard-to-trade assets liquid, industry executives said at Paris Blockchain Week, pushing back on the idea that putting private credit, real estate or other illiquid products onchain will by itself create active secondary markets. Speaking during a panel moderated by Cointelegraph CEO Yana Prikhodchenko, Oya Celiktemur, Ondo Finance sales director for…

ETH Accumulation Wallet Balances Rise By 33%: Will ETH Price Follow?

Ether’s (ETH) rally to $2,400 is nearly 38% above its swing low at $1,750, but is ETH’s price move simply a momentum trade, or do longer-term data points suggest a paradigm shift at play? ETH accumulation addresses absorb 6.5 million Ether Ether’s recent rally was preceded by an 89% surge in daily active addresses (DAA),…

Russia Introduces Bill To Criminalize Unregistered Crypto Services

Russia’s government submitted a bill to its parliament’s lower house in an effort to amend the country’s legal code to attach criminal liability for crypto services offered without regulatory approval or licensing. In a draft law sent to the State Duma on Friday, Russian lawmakers proposed that entities “carrying out activities related to the organization…

ETH Accumulation Wallet Balances Rise By 33%: Will ETH Price Follow?

Ether’s (ETH) rally to $2,400 is nearly 38% above its swing low at $1,750, but is ETH’s price move simply a momentum trade, or do longer-term data points suggest a paradigm shift at play? ETH accumulation addresses absorb 6.5 million Ether Ether’s recent rally was preceded by an 89% surge in daily active addresses (DAA),…

ETH Accumulation Wallet Balances Rise By 33%: Will ETH Price Follow?

Ether’s (ETH) rally to $2,400 is nearly 38% above its swing low at $1,750, but is ETH’s price move simply a momentum trade, or do longer-term data points suggest a paradigm shift at play? ETH accumulation addresses absorb 6.5 million Ether Ether’s recent rally was preceded by an 89% surge in daily active addresses (DAA),…

Bitcoin Liquidates $660M In Shorts As BTC Price Rallied Past $78K

Bitcoin (BTC) rallied above $78,000 to hit another 10-week high on Friday as crypto and equity markets reacted to cooling tensions in the US and Israel war in Iran. The rally above range highs also resulted in a large liquidation of leveraged Bitcoin positions. BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView More than $660 million in short…

Neo Co-Founder Proposes $461M Overhaul to End ‘Trust Me’ Governance

Neo co-founder Da Hongfei has proposed a sweeping overhaul of the Neo Foundation after years of deadlock with co-founder Erik Zhang left one of crypto’s oldest networks effectively paralyzed. The plan follows Neo’s first public financial disclosure since 2019, showing about $461 million in assets held across the Neo Foundation (NF) and Neo Global Development…

Sam Altman’s World project launches major upgrade to fight deepfakes and bots

World, the Sam Altman-backed digital identity project, has unveiled on Friday what it calls its most significant upgrade yet to World ID, positioning the system as “full-stack proof of human” infrastructure aimed at consumers, enterprises and AI agents. The overhaul, announced at an event in San Francisco, comes as concerns mount across the tech industry…

Ketman Project Identifies 100 North Korean IT Workers Working in Web3

The Ketman Project, funded by an Ethereum Foundation stipend, identified 100 North Korean IT workers and alerted about 53 projects employing DPRK operatives. The Ethereum Foundation said it funded a six-month project that exposed 100 North Korean operatives who had infiltrated Web3 companies under fake identities. The foundation on Thursday shared a recap of its…