Category: Bitcoin News

Ether Machine Raises $654M in ETH Ahead of Nasdaq Listing

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Crypto company The Ether Machine secured $654 million in a private financing round, collecting 150,000 Ether from prominent Ethereum advocate Jeffrey Berns. The funds will be transferred to the company’s wallet later this week, according to a Tuesday report by Reuters. Berns, known for his early investments in Ethereum infrastructure and Web3 initiatives, will join the board of directors. The raise is part of the company’s broader strategy to build a substantial Ether (ETH) treasury ahead of its anticipated Nasdaq debut later this year. The Ether Machine was formed through…

How to Use ChatGPT for Crypto Research Before Investing in Coins

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Key takeaways ChatGPT helps simplify complex crypto projects by summarizing white papers, explaining use cases and breaking down tokenomics. Researching the team, partnerships and security risks is crucial before investing in any crypto token. Comparing projects with competitors highlights strengths and weaknesses for better decision-making. ChatGPT can suggest relevant research questions, acting as a guide for beginners and experienced investors alike. Investing in cryptocurrency can be exciting and overwhelming, especially with the thousands of coins and tokens available today. From Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) to lesser-known altcoins and memecoins,…

Bitcoin Traders Adopt ‘Defensive’ Stance as Price Reclaims $110K

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Key takeaways: Bitcoin price recaptures $110,000, but bearish pressure persists.  BTC must flip the $110,500-$112,000 zone into new support to avoid a deeper correction toward $100,000.  Bitcoin (BTC) price was up on Tuesday, rising 2.4% over the past 24 hours to trade above $110,000. Still, while some indicators pointed to a local bottom, other metrics suggested the BTC market structure remained “fragile,” according to Glassnode. Bitcoin traders adopt “defensive stance”  Bitcoin’s spot demand was subdued over the past week, with trading volume falling to $7.7 billion from $8.5 billion, a…

Small Crypto Trader Turns $6.8K Into $1.5M With High-Risk Strategy

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Small crypto trader’s success: $6,800 to $1.5 million In just two weeks, a relatively unknown trader turned a mere $6,800 into $1.5 million without chasing memecoins, betting on price direction or riding ETF hype. Instead, this small crypto trader cracked a sophisticated crypto market-making strategy: high-frequency, delta-neutral and fueled by maker fee rebates. By quietly becoming a dominant liquidity source on a major perpetual futures platform, they pulled off one of the most efficient, profitable crypto trading tactics of 2025. This was infrastructure mastery at its best — colocation, automation…

Mergers and acquisitions are rising, leaving crypto assessments in question

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Fintech, cryptocurrency and mergers and acquisitions are poised to intersect significantly in the coming year. M&A activity is expected to rebound quickly — more than 60% of decision-makers at large companies who were surveyed by FTI Consulting for a February report agree that their company has recently been a target of aggressive M&A, and 39% say their companies are looking at M&A as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the cryptocurrency market is making strides toward mainstream acceptance. As a result, there’s likely to be an…

Trading apps usurp TikTok in popularity

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Two trading apps have risen to the top of Apple’s App Store in recent days. Robinhood holds the number one position, with Coinbase in second, at time of publication on Friday. In third: popular social media platform TikTok. YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat hold the fourth, fifth and sixth positions respectively. One possible conclusion? Folks are now more interested in swapping crypto and financial assets than they are in interacting on various social media platforms — a conclusion noted by CNBC in an article on Friday. Robinhood saw significant coverage in January when…

Ethereum bulls hedge their bets ahead of next week’s $250M ETH options expiry

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Ether (ETH) paved the way for lower transaction costs with the Berlin upgrade on April 15. However, traders already know that the Ethereum Improvement Proposal 1559 is the most anticipated and controversial change scheduled for the upcoming London hard fork. The EIP introduces a base fee that will be burned when a transaction occurs, while miners receive a tip for validating transactions. This move would severely pressure miners’ earnings, but the proposal aims to tame the skyrocketing gas fees that have plagued the network for the past two years. The…

Is DeFi yield appetite rising again? Enso raises $5M as YFI hits new highs

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The appetite for DeFi is rising again as blue chips are rallying and yield-earning strategy-sharing platforms, like Enso, are on the rise. Enso, a platform where users can share yield-earning strategies, raised $5 million on April 13 from top U.S. venture capital firms including Polychain Capital and Multicoin Capital. Synthetix (SNX) founder Kain Warwick, Aave founder Stani Kulechov, Dfinity COO Artia Moghbel, and other prominent angels took part in the round. The high-profile fundraising round comes as Yearn.finance (YFI) achieved a new all-time high above $50,000. Why is the demand for…

Bitcoin hash rate hits record 200 EH/s in fresh BTC price bull flag

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Bitcoin (BTC) has seen a classic indicator of a coming bull run pass a historic milestone as miners commit more and more resources to its future. According to data from on-chain monitoring resource Glassnode on Friday, Bitcoin’s network hash rate has passed total exahashes per second for the first time in its history. Hash rate underscores miner commitment Coming as a spike in a long-term uptrend, crossing the significant boundary means that the hash rate has doubled in under nine months.  Bitcoin average hash rate chart. Source: Glassnode An estimate…

As DeFi tokens surge, CRV indicates a bumper crop for ‘DeFi Summer 2.0’

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Fire up your tractors: The farmer’s almanac of decentralized finance is indicating that DeFi Summer 2.0 could feature some healthy yields across the ecosystem.  Multiple common metrics used to gauge the health of the DeFi space are pointing toward a looming bull market, but perhaps most promising of all might be the surge in Curve’s CRV governance token price. Often referred to as one of the “backbone” protocols of DeFi, Curve is an essential tool for many retail and protocol-level yield farming strategies. Curve allows for low-cost, low-slippage swaps of…