Franklin Templeton wants to incorporate staking into its Ether ETF, which would enable members of the trust to earn additional income. Franklin Templeton has become the latest Wall Street firm to apply for a spot Ether (ETH) exchange-traded fund in the United States. The $1.5 trillion dollar asset management firm submitted the S-1 filing with...Continue Reading

BTC mining stocks and MicroStrategy notch double-digit gains as Bitcoin price hits a 2-year high. Bitcoin’s (BTC) rebound to a two-year high at $50,363 on Feb. 12 has positively affected crypto and mining stocks. MicroStrategy (MSTR) and crypto-mining stocks recorded double-digit gains over the last week, somewhat mirroring BTC’s 17.5% gains over the same period. ...Continue Reading

The researchers increased success rates by as much as 27% with simple prompt engineering. Getting ChatGPT to operate autonomously within the confines of an operating system has proven a difficult task for numerous reasons, but a team composed of scientists from Microsoft Research and Peking University may have figured out the secret sauce.  The team...Continue Reading

Crypto Finance was bought by Deutsche Börse in 2021. Now it is likely to play a role in its planned institutional crypto exchange. Crypto Finance’s German subsidiary has received four licenses from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). The Crypto Finance licenses come as its parent company Deutsche Börse prepares to launch a digital...Continue Reading

The SEC chair penned a letter to four members of the U.S. House of Representatives breaking down the timeline of the commission’s Jan. 9 SIM swap attack. United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler penned a response to four lawmakers in the House of Representatives over an “unauthorized” tweet sent from the...Continue Reading

Representative Maxine Waters revealed both political parties are now “getting very close” to a joint stablecoin vision. United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told lawmakers that Congress should address gaps in digital asset regulation, some of which could present risks to investors or the financial system.  In a Feb. 6 hearing on the Financial Stability...Continue Reading

If Bitcoin can catch Meta, it’ll also become a member of the trillion-dollar club again. Bitcoin (BTC) reached $50K again on Feb.12, hitting a market cap value of $981.86 billion. Compared against the world’s most valuable companies’ stocks and precious metals, Bitcoin has once again entered the top 10 most valuable assets by market capitalization. ...Continue Reading

Bitcoin price rallies above $50,300 in the absence of retail trader FOMO and the use of high leverage. Cointelegraph explains why this is important. Bitcoin (BTC) price increased by 17.5% in the past seven days and traded above $50,000 for the first time since December 2021. Today’s Bitcoin price action can be partially attributed to...Continue Reading

Ripple purchased blockchain firm Metaco in May 2023 for $250 million as part of efforts to expand its custody services. Adrien Treccani, the CEO of Ripple Labs-owned blockchain custody firm Metaco, has left the company after more than eight years. According to a Feb. 12 Reuters report, Trecanni was no longer the CEO of Metaco,...Continue Reading

The rally in the S&P 500 and strong inflows into the Bitcoin ETFs appear to be fueling BTC’s price surge above $50,300. Bitcoin (BTC) has reached the psychologically crucial level of $50,000, boosted by the strength in the United States stock markets and solid inflows into the spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Popular trader Daan...Continue Reading