Norwegian officials have reportedly launched an investigation into prediction platforms’ bets on 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado as potential espionage. According to a Bloomberg report on Monday, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the entity that assists the Nobel Committee in selecting the peace prize recipient, began investigating reports that bets on the prediction…
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Key points: Bitcoin and several altcoins have bounced off their Friday lows, but higher levels are likely to attract solid resistance from the bears. BTC price and select altcoins could see rangebound action for a few days. The US stock markets, Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins are trying to claw their way back up from the…
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Key points: Bitcoin chops around $114,000 as a whale expects more BTC price losses next. Price pressures short-term holders, who have their cost basis just below the $114,000 mark. Key moving averages are in view as support bases. Bitcoin (BTC) struggled to hold its rebound at Monday’s Wall Street open as a controversial whale added…
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Crypto fundraising reached an all-time high last week, with a record $3.5 billion raised across 28 funding rounds. Cryptorank data showed on Monday that weekly fundraising reached its highest point from Oct. 6 to Sunday, surpassing all previous peaks, including the nearly $3 billion raised July 28 to Aug. 3. The surge came after seven…
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Kazakhstan launches state-backed fund Kazakhstan has launched the Alem Crypto Fund, a state-backed initiative aimed at building long-term digital asset reserves. Managed by Qazaqstan Venture Group and operating under the AIFC, the fund marks a significant step in the country’s regulated adoption of blockchain-based investments. Surprisingly, the fund’s inaugural purchase was not Bitcoin (BTC) but…
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BitMine, the world’s largest corporate Ether holder, capitalized on this weekend’s crypto market crash to buy the dip, signaling more institutional confidence in Ether’s continued momentum. The company said it acquired Ether (ETH) “more aggressively” during the market turmoil, pushing its total holdings past 3 million ETH, or about 2.5% of the cryptocurrency’s total supply.…
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A combination of factors converged into a perfect storm on Friday, triggering the cryptocurrency industry’s largest liquidation event in history and briefly sending Bitcoin (BTC) below $110,000. The $19 billion in liquidations doesn’t mean investors lost that sum of money, but rather that leveraged positions were forcibly closed. The unrealized loss can be better observed…
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Opinion by: Lynn Nguyen, CEO of Saros Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) on Solana have been topping trading volume charts for a while now, outperforming those on peer chains like Ethereum, Base and BSC. Memecoins have been largely responsible for this surge in volume. While they have proven product-market fit in crypto, only a handful have demonstrated…
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Binance’s ecosystem token BNB reached a new all-time high on Monday, outperforming the wider cryptocurrency market, which is still recovering from nearly $20 billion in liquidations over the weekend. The BNB (BNB) token rose to a new all-time high of $1,370 on Monday, according to CoinMarketCap data, rebounding strongly after a weekend crash that triggered…
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Key takeaways Bitcoin rose from $1 in 2011 to $1,000 in 2013, cementing itself as a global asset. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss bought Bitcoin early and founded Gemini in 2014 with a strong, compliance-first approach. The Winklevoss twins call Bitcoin “gold 2.0,” highlighting its fixed supply, portability and resistance to inflation as key advantages over…
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