Bitcoin makes Christmas come early for its more speculative investors, with BTC price still facing “early bull market” resistance. Bitcoin (BTC) has seen a mass profit-taking event which rivals its $69,000 all-time highs, new analysis reveals. In a post on Dec. Bitcoin speculators sell as if all-time highs are back BTC price gains have delivered...Continue Reading

The unsecured bond has a value of 10 million euros and a maturity of three years, with all the proceeds going for Eligible Green Activities (ESG) investments. The third-largest bank in France, Societe Generale, reported issuing its first digital green bond as a Security Token on the Ethereum public blockchain. The bond, registered by Forge,...Continue Reading

Crypto mining firm Phoenix Group has debuted trading on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, with the stock opening at $0.6. Cryptocurrency mining firm Phoenix Group has debuted trading on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), becoming one of the Middle East’s first publicly listed industry firms. The Phoenix Group stock (PHX) opened at 2.25 dirhams...Continue Reading

The Financial Supervisory Commission considers itself to be “in the exploratory phase” for crypto exchange-traded funds. Taiwan’s principal financial regulator, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), is considering allowing the crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the country, but only after analyzing the ETFs’ development on other markets around the globe. According to the report in the...Continue Reading

BlackRock, along with more than a dozen financial giants, has entered the race to launch the first spot Bitcoin ETF in the U.S. The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, received $100,000 seed funding from an unknown investor for its spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) in October 2023, as per its latest Securities and Exchange...Continue Reading

A security vulnerability potentially affecting hundreds of smart contracts that were pre-built using a commonly used open-source library has been reported by Web3 firm Thirdweb. Smart contract development firm Thirdweb reported a security vulnerability that potentially “impacts a variety of smart contracts across the Web3 ecosystem.” On Dec. Highlighting the vulnerability’s potential to cause massive...Continue Reading

Hashdex’s head of product for the U.S. and Europe says the exact timing for a spot Bitcoin ETF is unclear but predicts it to start by the second quarter of 2024. Hashdex, one of the 13 asset managers vying for spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund, expects to see the first spot Bitcoin ETF in the...Continue Reading

It adds to a prior agreement in which Riot bought 33,280 miners from MicroBT. The term sheet was also updated, allowing Riot to buy another 265,000 miners in the future. Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms is buying 66,560 Bitcoin mining rigs from manufacturer MicroBT, in one of its largest orders of hash-rate in the firm’s history...Continue Reading

The trading platform posted a sharp rise in monthly crypto trading volumes in November, while CEO Vlad Tenev said he hopes to eventually reel in “nine figures” in annual revenue. Crypto-friendly trading platform Robinhood has reported a 75% month-on-month increase in digital asset trading volume in November. In an 8-K filing to the Securities and...Continue Reading

The anticipated Bitcoin halving and potential ETF approvals have lit “some serious fire in the cauldron” for crypto, said Zerocap investment chief Jon de Wet. Publicly traded crypto firms have notched triple-digit percentage returns this year and closed up in green on Dec. 4, as Bitcoin (BTC) reached a new year-high of over $42,000.  Crypto exchange...Continue Reading