Bitcoin traders expect the asset to “bounce soon,” while an XRP DAT and looming ETF approvals brought bulls back out to fight: Trade Secrets. Welcome to Trade Secrets Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months...Continue Reading

Crypto analysts mull over Ether’s price going “nuclear,” Ripple Labs seeks to buy $1 billion XRP tokens, and other news: Hodler’s Digest Several regional banks in the United States are facing renewed stress despite strengthening their finances after the 2023 banking crisis, and Bitcoin could benefit from any liquidity crisis that follows. Strike CEO Jack...Continue Reading

Four years on, Binance is back in South Korea! Plus, Morgan Stanley and Japan’s largest bank’s new digital asset division. Asia Express. Binance is returning to South Korea nearly five years after exiting the market in December 2020, following the Financial Intelligence Units (FIU) approval of its acquisition of Gopax one of only five local...Continue Reading

High value DeFi projects like Synthetix and Aave are making Ethereum L1 great again, as Ronin, Celo and Phala switch chains to become L2s. In recent months, a raft of alt-L1s joined Ethereum to become L2s, even as other projects on L2s switch back to the Ethereum mainnet. The Ethereum L1 is reasserting its claim...Continue Reading

Sharplink Gaming co-CEO and former BlackRock exec Joseph Chalom was surprised by the diamond hands of Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF hodlers. More than a year on from their debut, the success of BlackRocks Bitcoin and Ether ETFs blindsided its former digital assets strategy chief, Joseph Chalom. But what could possibly surprise a 20-year veteran of...Continue Reading

Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes...Continue Reading

Bitcoin tumbles to $102,000 on Friday amid ‘macro whiplash,’ crypto betting platform Shuffle announces user data breach: Hodler’s Digest US President Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on China on Friday, sending the price of Bitcoin reeling below $110,000 at the time of writing. Trump said the tariffs were in response to China attempting to...Continue Reading

Alibaba founder’s company backs another Ethereum-based project, South Korean whales account for 91% of the market: Asia Express. Anthea Holding Limited, a Bermuda-based crypto insurance firm, has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Yunfeng Financial Group, a Hong Kong-listed fintech company co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma.  Anthea said the new capital...Continue Reading

Could using ZK-proofs to verify IDs help resolve privacy concerns related to the UK’s Digital ID and Australia’s social media age limits? The idea behind Worldcoin (now called World) is an excellent one: without some way to verify human-based accounts, the internet will be completely overrun with AI bots. To a large extent, it already...Continue Reading

Germany is set to thwart the EU’s Chat Control plan to scan encrypted messages before they’re sent. But Cypherpunks warn the fight isn’t over. In an apparent victory for digital privacy, the head of the largest political party in Germany has come out against controversial legislation that would enable mass online state surveillance. German technology...Continue Reading