French authorities can hold Pavel Durov until Aug. 28

In this week's crypto market update, Spencer Bogart from Blockchain Capital and Jacob Canfield from Signal Profits debate whether Bitcoin will top it's all time high this year and if the halving is already priced in.Will all this talk of the halving finally convince host Giovanni Pigni to buy his first Bitcoin?Bogart explains the thinking…

Binance, one of the world’s foremost cryptocurrency exchanges, now allows deposits in Hong Kong dollars.According to a Feb. 21 announcement, Binance now offers both deposits and withdrawals in Hong Kong dollars without deposit fees. After depositing Hong Kong dollars, users are free to spend them on cryptocurrency.Deposits are enabled through a partnership between Binance and…

Despite the fun-sounding tickers, the two newly launched Direxion funds saw less than $50,000 in combined trading volume on their first trading day.

ETH price struggles to find reasons to rally after the network’s DApp volumes drop and Ether languishes near the $2,250 support.

A United States federal district court has decided to allow a lawsuit alleging that Ripple’s XRP crypto asset is an unregistered security.Court documents filed on Feb. 26 reveal that Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the Court of the Northern District of California ruled to only partially grant Ripple’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit against it.The lawsuit…

Even some crypto skeptics pointed out that Bitcoin isn’t sliding anywhere near as much as the stock market has recently. The United States stock market lost more in value over the April 4 trading day than the entire cryptocurrency market is worth, as fears over US President Donald Trump's tariffs continue to ramp up. On

Both OpenSea and Metamask have logged cases of IP address leaks associated with transferring nonfungible tokens (NFTs), according to researchers at Convex Labs and OMNIA protocol.Nick Bax, head of research at NFT organization Convex Labs tested out how NFT marketplaces like OpenSea allow vendors or attackers to harvest IP addresses. He created a listing for…

Key points:  Monetary stimulus in China and Europe increases investors’ focus on Bitcoin price. The US Federal Reserve is under political pressure to cut rates, as the DXY weakens. Bitcoin’s decoupling from traditional markets continues to gain attention.  Bitcoin (BTC) traders are somewhat puzzled by BTC price jumping to $85,000, especially since the S&P 500