Continued investments from BlackRock’s ETF may provide “structural support” for Bitcoin’s price appreciation, market analysts told Cointelegraph. BlackRock’s exchange-traded fund (ETF) bought nearly $1 billion worth of Bitcoin on behalf of its clients on April 28, with continued inflows providing “structural support” for Bitcoin’s price appreciation, according to market analysts. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT)...Continue Reading

The viral Paws Telegram Mini App behind the tap-to-earn craze has migrated from TON to Solana, launching a new token and expanding into NFTs, DeFi and Web3 gaming. Paws is a Telegram-based Mini App created by the same team behind other projects, such as Notcoin and Dogs.  If you’ve been cruising around Telegram lately, chances...Continue Reading

Bitcoin is attempting to flip ever more important resistance levels to support again, but bulls are not done yet with the 2025 yearly open a key battleground. Key points: Bitcoin has beaten out three key resistance levels in a single weekly candle. The weekly close defended the 2025 yearly open, but a subsequent dip below...Continue Reading

Solana outperformed rivals with 33% higher DEX volume, 400% more transactions, and 180% more active addresses over the past three months. Decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator 1inch has launched on Solana, marking a significant step toward its vision of a “unified multichain” decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. According to a press release shared with Cointelegraph, the integration...Continue Reading

The OCCRP reports Bankera’s founders channeled around half of the $114 million the firm raised in its 2018 ICO to a Vanuatu bank to buy real estate in France and Lithuania. The founders of the crypto fintech firm Bankera used funds from the project’s 2018 initial coin offering to purchase luxury properties worldwide, according to...Continue Reading

As the Russian government reportedly eyes ruble-backed stablecoins, a local industry executive warned that a viable “Tether replica” would require a lot of effort. The concept of a Russian ruble stablecoin received special attention at a major local crypto event, the Blockchain Forum in Moscow, with key industry executives reflecting on some of the core...Continue Reading

The University of Zurich’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Ethics Commission said it had investigated the incident and promised to coordinate better with test subjects in the future. Researchers at the University of Zurich have been accused of undertaking an unauthorized four-month-long experiment on a Reddit board using artificial intelligence-generated comments to test whether AI...Continue Reading

If it gets the nod from United Arab Emirates regulators, the dirham-pegged and central bank-regulated stablecoin will operate on the ADI blockchain. A trio of major Abu Dhabi institutions, including the Emirate’s sovereign wealth fund, have teamed up to launch a new dirham-pegged stablecoin. Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund ADQ, the United Arab Emirates’ largest...Continue Reading

BONK’s futures open interest tripled over the past week as Solana-based memecoins saw an influx of investors. Key takeaways: BONK price is up 73% since April 22, hitting a five-month high of $0.00002167. BONK’s open interest surged 290% to $43.2 million.  Read moreContinue Reading

Lawyers for Samourai Wallet say prosecutors are determining whether to drop the case against the crypto mixer’s executives after the Justice Department nixed its crypto team. US federal prosecutors and the co-founders of the crypto mixer Samourai Wallet have asked a court for more time to consider potentially dismissing the case after the Justice Department...Continue Reading