Two former executives at major American investment management firms, Millennium Management and Pacific Investment Management Company (Pimco), are reentering the crypto space amid a major market rally. Millennium’s ex-portfolio manager Benoit Bosc and Pimco’s former executive vice president Michael Bressler left their posts to set up a new crypto consultancy firm, x2B, Bloomberg reported on
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Bitcoin is breaking records as a weekend BTC price surge delivers almost $82,000 to start the week. Bitcoin traders see BTC price upside continuing despite some concerns that a retracement may reach frightening proportions. Macroeconomic data releases continue to come thick and fast as United States presidential election fever gives way to the ongoing inflation
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Bitcoin will gain political importance following Donald Trump and the Republicans’ United States election wins — and investors who don’t own the cryptocurrency can no longer ignore it, according to the New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG). “While some investors have allocated to Bitcoin, the most common allocation for investors is still zero. There are
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The crypto arm of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) said there will be  “greater flexibility to experiment” as the regulatory landscape for crypto improves in the United States following the Nov. 5 elections. “While we’ll likely have greater flexibility to experiment, we can’t forget that the fundamental regulatory principles applicable to blockchain systems remain
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Edward Snowden, the privacy advocate and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, addressed decentralization during his appearance at Near’s Redacted conference in Bangkok, Thailand. Speaking on topics like cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence and blockchain technology, Snowden also addressed the impact of venture capital (VC) on blockchain projects, using Solana as an example. He described Solana as
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Bitcoin’s (BTC) price crossed the $80,000 mark for the first in history and over $1.5 trillion in market capitalization just days after Donald Trump’s reelection in the United States presidential elections. On Nov. 10, the top cryptocurrency rose by almost 4.50% to reach a new inflation-adjusted record high of $80,116 (data from Bitstamp). Smaller tokens,
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Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, hit $3,200 on Nov. 10 — its highest since August — as Bitcoin surpassed $79,000 following Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election. According to CoinMarketCap, the market cap of Ether (ETH) now stands at around $383 billion, up almost 5% in 24 hours, putting it
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Cardano (ADA) struggled as one of 2024’s worst-performing cryptocurrencies, shedding over 40% of its value year-to-date through October. However, November brought a swift turnaround, with ADA wiping nearly six months of losses in just one week. Now, it eyes 100%-plus price gains by March 2025. ADA booms on Hoskinson-Trump rumors On Nov. 10, Cardano’s price
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Top Stories of The Week BTC investors pour $1.1B into BlackRock ETF as Bitcoin marks another high The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, accumulated more than $1 billion of inflows to its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) across a record trading day as Bitcoin continued to break all-time highs.  On Nov. 7, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust
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Cumulative monthly traffic to 20 leading crypto exchanges increased by 8% in October, reflecting heightened investor interest and increasing participation among retail traders heading into the 2024 United States elections. According to data from ICO Analytics, Pump Fun recorded the highest month-over-month increase in percentage terms — with 100% growth in October. BullX followed behind
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