General News

Stablecoins Could Hit $2 Trillion and Help Fund U.S. Debt: Treasury Secretary Bessent

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has predicted a major expansion in the stablecoin market, forecasting it will grow from about $250 billion today to...

OGN Surges as Buy-Side Momentum Expands Across Exchanges

Origin Protocol’s OGN token staged a strong intraday rally on August 20, 2025, with its Binance OGN/USDT pair swinging from $0.0607 to $0.0880—a nearly...

Scaramucci Predicts Bitcoin Could Hit $200K by Year-End, Calls Forecast “Conservative”

Anthony Scaramucci, founder of Skybridge Capital, has reiterated his bold outlook for Bitcoin, maintaining that the leading cryptocurrency could climb to between $180,000 and...

Harvard Economist Admits He Got Bitcoin Spectacularly Wrong

In a rare moment of public reflection, Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff acknowledged that his 2018 prediction about Bitcoin completely missed the mark. Back then,...

Bitpanda Unveils DeFi Wallet to Bridge Web2 Users into Web3

Bitpanda has launched a new decentralized finance (DeFi) wallet designed to make on-chain crypto activity accessible to everyday users. Announced on August 19, 2025,...

BlackRock’s Ether ETF Sees $87M Outflow as Institutional Flows Swing

A Sharp Reversal in Ethereum ETF Flows BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) recorded an $87.2 million outflow on August 18, marking the largest single-day withdrawal...

Thailand Introduces “TouristDigiPay” to Let Travelers Convert Crypto to Baht

Thailand has rolled out an ambitious 18-month pilot program called TouristDigiPay, giving international travelers a new way to spend while exploring the country. Launched...

India’s CBDT Considers Dedicated Crypto Code to Ease Tax Burden

India’s Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has begun discussions with crypto industry stakeholders on whether the country needs a dedicated Virtual Digital Asset...

Hedge Funds, Banks, and Universities Fuel Bitcoin ETF Boom

Brevan Howard Takes the Lead Brevan Howard has significantly increased its stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). The hedge fund nearly doubled its holdings...

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...