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Standard Chartered Raises Ethereum Price Target on Stablecoin Momentum

Standard Chartered has sharply increased its year-end Ethereum (ETH) forecast, now expecting the cryptocurrency to hit $7,500 by December, up from its prior $4,000...

Bitcoin Overtakes Google as Fifth-Largest Asset by Market Value

Bitcoin has officially moved past Alphabet, Google’s parent company, to claim the spot as the world’s fifth-largest asset by market capitalization. As of August...

Blue Origin Now Accepts Crypto for Spaceflight: BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC

How the crypto checkout works Blue Origin now lets customers pay for New Shepard suborbital flights with Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, and the dollar-pegged stablecoins USDT...

Do Kwon Pleads Guilty: TerraUSD Founder Admits Fraud in SDNY

What Kwon admitted Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon pleaded guilty in New York to two criminal counts—conspiracy to commit commodities, securities and wire fraud, and...

Block builds a “full-stack” Bitcoin banking suite for small businesses

A complete Bitcoin toolkit for merchants Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, is gearing up to ship a full “bitcoin for business” stack...

Metaplanet Buys 518 More Bitcoin, Lifts Treasury Past 18,000 BTC as Price Nears $119K

Metaplanet adds 518 BTC on August 12 Tokyo-listed Metaplanet purchased another 518 bitcoin on August 12 for roughly $61.4 million, paying an average of about...

BlackRock Stays on the Sidelines of the Spot-XRP ETF Race—for Now

Why BlackRock isn’t rushing into an XRP or SOL ETF BlackRock is pumping the brakes on fresh single-asset crypto ETFs. A company spokesperson said the...

Stablecoin Market Clears $270B as USDT and USDC Fuel Fresh Highs

A New Peak for On-Chain Dollars Stablecoins just set another record. As of August 11, 2025, total capitalization has inched past $270 billion and sits...

India’s tax department targets USDT arbitrage; loss offsets under Section 115BBH draw heat

What the I-T probe uncovered India’s Income Tax Department has trained its sights on crypto traders who ran USDT arbitrage and then tried to trim...

Philippines orders ISP blocks on unlicensed crypto exchanges as CASP rules bite

The Philippines has moved from warnings to action against offshore crypto platforms. Days after an August 1, 2025 investor advisory, the Securities and Exchange...

Trump’s Order Opens 401(k)s to Crypto and Other Alternatives as Bitcoin Pops

What the executive order does President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, August 7, directing regulators to clear a path for “alternative assets”...

SEC vs. Ripple Is Finally Over: Appeals Dropped, Torres’ Ruling Stays

What the filing actually does On August 7, the SEC and Ripple filed a joint stipulation in the Second Circuit to dismiss both the agency’s...