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Key takeaways: XRP ETF approval odds rise to 85% following a SEC leadership change. Analysts predict XRP could rise to new all-time highs again in 2025. XRP price dropped by 5% over the past 24 hours as US GDP data showed a shrinking economy. However, a strengthening market structure and investors’ growing hope for a […]

Key points: Solana held the $140 support level for a week, a first in more than two months, highlighting traders’ growing confidence. SOL futures open interest hit $5.75 billion on April 30, showing strong institutional interest. With rising DEX volumes and a $9.5 billion TVL, SOL could rally to $200 before a potential spot ETF […]

Trading platform Robinhood has still managed to beat Wall Street estimates as its first-quarter revenues fell and its crypto trading volume cooled from a record high in Q4. Robinhood’s Q1 results shared on April 30 show revenues fell 8.6% from the previous quarter to $927 million, topping Zacks analyst estimates by 3.16%. The company’s crypto […]

Key takeaways: Traders remain cautious about ETH’s price action, but optimistic sentiment is beginning to return. The May 7, Ethereum Pectra upgrade could boost investor sentiment, but ETH’s price action shows investors are still hesitant to open new positions. Ether (ETH) has been trading below $1,900 since March, leading investors to question whether the failed […]

Binance co-founder and former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao took the stage at Token2049 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he told the audience that his investment in social media platform X was aimed at protecting freedom of speech. The former Binance executive joined a fireside panel with macroeconomic analyst Raoul Pal to discuss the […]

The crypto industry has seen a significant shift toward regulatory compliance since its early days, according to James Smith, co-founder of Elliptic, a crypto compliance firm established in 2013. “In the early days, only a few companies approached compliance in a serious way,” Smith told Cointelegraph at the Token2049 event. “Coinbase was our first customer […]

Bloomberg Intelligence has boosted its estimated odds of US regulators approving a Solana exchange-traded fund (ETF) in 2025 to 90%, according to an April 30 post on the X platform.  The company also set more favorable chances of approval for other altcoin ETFs, including proposed funds holding XRP (XRP) and Dogecoin (DOGE), Bloomberg analyst Eric […]

Key takeaways: Bitcoin bulls are attacking the $95,000 level again after today’s brief US GDP-induced sell-off. Traders are semi-agnostic to negative US economic data as they expect the Federal Reserve to resume easing and rate cuts at some point in the future. Bitcoin (BTC) price knocks on the door of $95,000 after starting the NY […]

US Dollar-pegged stablecoins are on track to reach an aggregate market capitalization of approximately $2 trillion by 2028, according to the United States Department of the Treasury’s Q1 2025 report. Stablecoins’ cumulative market cap currently stands at roughly $230 billion, but “[e]volving market dynamics [have] the potential to accelerate stablecoins’ trajectory to reach ~$2tn in […]

US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has filed an amicus brief in the country’s Supreme Court in support of a taxpayer fighting the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) gaining access to his data from a digital asset platform. In an April 30 filing in the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), lawyers for Coinbase argued that a […]

Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao wants to provide free education for up to a billion children worldwide with his Giggle Academy venture, he told an audience at Token2049 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). « In a few years, I think, I want to teach 100 million or 1 billion kids for free,” Zhao told the […]

Key takeaways: Ether price printed a rare monthly Dragonfly doji candlestick, which is often seen before major ETH bull market cycles. ETH is retesting its long-term parabolic support zone that preceded its historic 2017 rally. The MVRV Z-Score has entered the accumulation zone, signaling undervaluation. Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), is flashing a combination of […]

Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s price increased by sixfold each time its age increased by 40%. If the pattern holds, Bitcoin could rally to $351,046 in 2025. New data highlights a historical pattern that results in Bitcoin (BTC) price increasing by sixfold. Using a logarithmic chart to illustrate the trend from 2011, the model projects BTC price […]

Tether plans to launch a stablecoin product in the United States as soon as this year, the stablecoin issuer’s CEO, Paul Ardoino, said in an April 30 CNBC interview. Tether’s flagship stablecoin, USDT (USDT), is already the US dollar’s top “exporter,” Ardoino told CNBC. It has a market capitalization of nearly $150 billion, according to […]