Bitcoin Eyes All-Time Highs While Traders Wait For $117,000 Retest

Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week in an exciting place as price action knocks on new all-time highs. Bitcoin surges to $122,000, the latest sign that price discovery is around the corner. Dip discussions focus on the weekend’s CME gap, which offered $117,000 as a retracement target. CPI and PPI are due this week as…

S&P Global Expands Credit Ratings to Crypto Institutions, Including Stablecoins and Digital Asset Funds

S&P Global Ratings assigned a “B-” issuer credit rating to Sky Protocol, formerly known as Maker Protocol, marking the first time a major agency has issued a rating for a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. The rating is part of S&P’s ongoing assessment of stablecoin issuers, which began in 2023 to evaluate their ability to maintain…

GSR, DigiFT Bring Live OTC Trading to $13.4B Tokenized Real-World Asset Market

Crypto market maker GSR has partnered with regulated tokenized asset exchange DigiFT to launch secondary over-the-counter (OTC) trading for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). The move comes as the real-world asset sector has been grown to over $13.4 billion worth of assets, according to data from DeFiLlama. The bulk of that comes in the form of…

An Institutional Entity Has Bought Ether Worth $946M In The Past 7 Days.

An unidentified entity has been accumulating Ether (ETH) aggressively over the past week, buying 221,166 ETH as the asset rallied by 21%. In the past 24 hours alone, the “mysterious institution” bought $212 million of Ether, according to data analytics platform Lookonchain. The whale tracker said the entity is using six different wallets to store…

An Institutional Entity Has Bought Ether Worth $946M In The Past 7 Days.

An unidentified entity has been accumulating Ether (ETH) aggressively over the past week, buying 221,166 ETH as the asset rallied by 21%. In the past 24 hours alone, the “mysterious institution” bought $212 million of Ether, according to data analytics platform Lookonchain. The whale tracker said the entity is using six different wallets to store…

Bitcoin Investment Banks are Coming

Regulated Bitcoin (BTC) investment banks are coming to El Salvador, following Thursday’s approval of El Salvador’s Investment Banking Law, which classifies investment banks under different regulations than commercial banks. Investment banks will now be allowed to hold BTC and other digital assets on their balance sheets and offer crypto services to “sophisticated” investors, the equivalent…

Crypto Exec Warns About Rising Tide of Wrench Attacks

Alena Vranova, founder of SatoshiLabs, warned of the increase in wrench attacks, physical assaults and abductions carried out against Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto holders in an attempt to steal their private keys. “Every week, there is a Bitcoiner, at least one in the world, who gets kidnapped, tortured, extorted, and sometimes even worse,” Vranova told…

Crypto Exec Warns About Rising Tide of Wrench Attacks

Alena Vranova, founder of SatoshiLabs, warned of the increase in wrench attacks, physical assaults and abductions carried out against Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto holders in an attempt to steal their private keys. “Every week, there is a Bitcoiner, at least one in the world, who gets kidnapped, tortured, extorted, and sometimes even worse,” Vranova told…

How to Split Bitcoin Without Splitting the Private Key

Key takeaways A private key cannot be split in half. It must remain whole to access crypto. Splitting it manually risks permanent loss of funds. Cryptocurrency is marital property. Courts in many countries, including South Korea and the US, treat crypto like any other divisible asset in divorce. Crypto can be shared securely. Methods like…

What Happened In Crypto Today

Today in crypto, World Mobile launches drone-based network to provide 5G service, Unicoin CEO says US banks continue closing accounts for crypto firms under “Operation Chokepoint.” Meanwhile, Vitalik Buterin is an onchain billionaire again. World Mobile launches aerial drone network for telecommunication World Mobile, a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePin) for telecommunications, launched a new…