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XRP zoomed as Gary Gensler’s announcement of stepping down in January as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) kept a multiweek bullish trade going. XRP prices surged 25% in the past 24 hours, with most of the gains in early Asian hours Friday, amid widespread belief of a shift toward a crypto-friendly

Continuing a massive comeback from a crypto winter price collapse of more than 95%, (SOL), the native token of the Solana blockchain, has shattered its all-time high reached in October 2021. At press time, SOL was trading just above $263, higher by 11% over the past 24 hours and nearly 360% on a year-over-year basis.

Crypto-investments firm Bitwise took a big jump Thursday toward offering a Solana exchange traded fund (ETF) in the United States. Paperwork filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) makes Bitwise the fourth investments company vying to offer a Solana ETF, behind Canary Capital, which filed in October and VanEck and 21Shares which kicked off

One of the more impressive runs higher ever seen in stocks took at least a brief breather on Thursday, with Bitcoin Development Company MicroStrategy (MSTR) sporting a double-digit percentage loss even as the price of bitcoin (BTC) surged to a new record high just shy of $100,000. At one point lower by more than 20%

Financial services giant Charles Schwab has plans to directly offer crypto investments to its clients, president and incoming CEO Rick Wurster told Yahoo Finance in an interview on Thursday. Wurster, who will step into the new role on Jan. 1, said that clients of the bank have already been very active in the crypto space

Is your social media feed once again full of crypto bros taking victory laps attesting to the inevitability of bitcoin? If you’re wondering, "How did we get back here?" or why TV news told you that Bitcoin died, you're not alone. Driven by viral social media campaigns like Elizabeth Warren’s “Anti-Crypto Army,” crypto has become

What's good for the L1 is good for the L2s. That's the assessment the teams behind zkSync and Polygon, two of the leading layer-2 networks running on top of Ethereum, gave of a recent proposal to overhaul the $400 billion blockchain, dismissing suggestions it would make their auxiliary networks redundant. 01:56 Bitcoin Nears $100K as

Gary Gensler is stepping down. And no one in crypto is going to miss the SEC chair. Under his tenure, the lead U.S. securities regulator led a wide-ranging campaign against digital assets companies that was both damaging and frequently unfair. Meanwhile, Gensler offered no clarity to crypto companies wanting to do business the right way.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has ordered the Securities and Exchange Commission to throw out its so-called "dealer" rule, finalized in February. Crypto industry groups had sued the agency, arguing its rule marked an inappropriate stretch into the sector. The ruling emerged just as SEC Chair Gary Gensler was announcing

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler — a frequent foe of the cryptocurrency industry — said he will fully leave the agency the day Donald Trump becomes president in January. He's not just stepping down as head of the main U.S. securities regulator. He will also not stick around as a commissioner, meaning