World, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s digital identity project, formerly known as Worldcoin, is expanding into prediction markets by integrating Polymarket. World App, a mobile application that combines a digital wallet with World’s decentralized identity tool, World ID, has integrated the Polymarket App, the company announced on Tuesday. “World App users can download and access the…
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Bitcoin may still be on track to reach $200,000 by the end of the year, even after a record $19 billion market liquidation and renewed tariff threats from US President Donald Trump, according to Standard Chartered’s global head of digital assets research, Geoff Kendrick. The crypto market experienced a record $19 billion liquidation event on…
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Bitcoin’s price chart has started to show similarities to the soybean market around 50 years ago, which saw prices top before plummeting 50% as global supply began to outweigh demand, warns veteran trader Peter Brandt. However, other Bitcoin (BTC) analysts are confident that the charts are signaling further upside ahead. “Bitcoin is forming a rare…
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Improving crypto regulatory clarity has triggered a 125% surge in global retail crypto transactions for two years in a row, according to TRM Labs. Worldwide retail crypto transactions rose by more than 125% between January and September 2025, echoing similar growth seen in 2024, according to the blockchain intelligence firm in its Crypto Adoption and…
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Stock exchanges in India, Hong Kong, and Australia have reportedly begun blocking or restricting companies from becoming digital asset treasury vehicles. Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. has rejected at least five companies seeking to become DATs, citing rules against “cash companies” that hold primarily liquid assets, according to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday, citing…
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Kraken boss David Ripley has fired back against a senior executive of the American Bankers Association, who argued that stablecoins yield is a “detriment” to banks’ abilities to support their community. ABA’s senior vice president of innovation and strategy, Brooke Ybarra, said if major crypto exchanges such as Kraken or Coinbase were allowed to pay…
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Key points: Rising spot and futures volumes show traders venturing back into the crypto market. Traders are positioning for upside, but charts hint that swing traders will sell intra-day rally tops. Crypto market price action turned volatile on Tuesday as Bitcoin (BTC) hit a daily high at $114,000, and Ether (ETH) managed a brief push…
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The $11 billion Bitcoin whale is back with another massive short position, signaling that some large investors are hedging for more crypto market downside amid the tariff concerns and ongoing government shutdown. The Bitcoin whale, which is crypto slang for a large investor, returned with a $235 million 10-times leveraged short position on Bitcoin (BTC),…
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Large Bitcoin holders who accumulated the cryptocurrency early, commonly known as whales, are increasingly moving their holdings into exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with asset managers such as BlackRock actively courting them. In an interview with Bloomberg, Robbie Mitchnick, BlackRock’s head of digital assets, said the company has already facilitated more than $3 billion worth of these…
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The US Federal Reserve is considering the introduction of a new type of payment account that would make it easier for smaller companies to participate in the central bank’s payment system, signaling the end of the crypto industry’s banking access challenges. The newly floated “payment accounts” would seek to grant full access to fintech companies…
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