Most voters in the U.S. aren’t comfortable with President Donald Trump’s hand on the wheel of crypto industry oversight, with 62% saying they don’t trust his administration on that point, according to a survey commissioned by CoinDesk. After the previous administration’s heavy hand on crypto, Trump’s promise to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of
At Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas, Eric Trump and Calamos Investments CEO John Koudounis sat down with Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas for a panel that covered bitcoin’s maturation from speculative instrument to global reserve contender. The conversation ranged across institutional adoption, government debanking, currency debasement, and the challenge of winning over ordinary investors
Trader 0xaA5 turned 3 ETH into 550 ETH after buying 4.28B ASTEROID, recording a reported 183x return in 16 days. A crypto trader reportedly turned 3 ETH, worth about $7,257, into 550 ETH, worth about $1.27 million, after trading ASTEROID. The wallet, identified as “0xaA5,” bought 4.28 billion ASTEROID tokens around 16 days earlier. It
Today’s Bitcoin price forecast makes for uneasy reading as BTC USD cratered to an intraday low of $75,100 today, after two catalysts hit simultaneously: the Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate steady at 3.5–3.75%, and President Trump publicly rejected Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. That combination, hawkish Fed policy meeting an active
Crypto trade groups called for a markup of key market structure legislation within hours of U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) releasing a compromise text Friday on stablecoin yield in the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the final major sticking point in the bill. The text bars crypto firms from paying interest
Galoy is widening its push into U.S. banking at a moment when many institutions still wrestle with how, or whether, to bring Bitcoin into their product stack. Ahead of this week’s Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas, Galoy unveiled an expanded version of its Bitcoin-native core banking platform, aiming to turn a fragmented set of
ONDO token holders await a 2026 fee switch vote as Ondo Finance revenue grows from tokenized real-world assets. Ondo Finance has become a major name in tokenized real-world assets as its products gain wider use. The protocol earns revenue through USDY and OUSG, while ONDO holders currently receive only governance rights. A planned 2026 fee
Bitcoin has entered March after one of the most structurally severe corrections in its history, recording five consecutive monthly red closes for only the second time ever and marking a 52 percent drawdown from the October 2025 peak. The January–February “double-red” start to 2026 also stands in stark contrast to historical seasonality with the final
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told the House Armed Services Committee this week that the Pentagon is running classified Bitcoin projects that provide the US military “a lot of leverage in a lot of different scenarios.” This repositioned Bitcoin from a speculative technology price prediction into an instrument of American strategic power. With it
Brazil’s central bank has banned electronic foreign exchange (eFX) providers from using stablecoins, bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to settle overseas remittances. BCB Resolution No. 561, published April 30, updates rules for eFX, Brazil’s regulated system for digital international payments, purchases, withdrawals and transfers. The rule takes effect October 1, with adaptation deadlines running into 2027.
