Category: Bitcoin News

The White House praised President Donald Trump for making the United States the “crypto capital of the world,” and cast the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act as the catalyst in making the country the “global leader in cryptocurrency.” In a recent post on X, an official communication added, “promises made, promises kept,” to Trump ending the Biden era “crusade to crush crypto.”  Moving beyond the rhetoric, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a joint event on…

Animoca Brands Japan has partnered with RootstockLabs to introduce Bitcoin-native decentralized finance (DeFi) tools to Japanese corporations and institutions. The collaboration aims to localize and deploy Rootstock’s institutional program for the Japanese market, enabling companies to manage Bitcoin (BTC) as part of their corporate treasury strategies while accessing onchain financial tools secured by Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work (PoW), according to a Tuesday announcement shared with Cointelegraph. “In Japan, an increasing number of companies are beginning to utilize cryptoassets as part of their financial and treasury strategies,” said Kensuke Amo, CEO of Animoca…

Bitcoin saw two long-term moving averages cross over for the first time since April 2022 in a fresh BTC price bear market warning. Bitcoin (BTC) bear market comparisons are growing as the weekly BTC price chart repeats April 2022. Key points: Two long-term BTC price trendlines stage a bearish crossover for the first time since April 2022. Last time, Bitcoin took around seven months before it hit a long-term bottom. Against silver, BTC is already at its 2022 bear market bottom level. Bitcoin “bull market” moving averages flip bearish New…

A response posted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force page echoed concerns raised by Ripple that speculation alone should not automatically subject cryptocurrencies to federal securities laws, as lawmakers continue debating the CLARITY Act. The response, written by digital asset regulation attorney Teresa Goody Guillen and published Monday as public input on the SEC’s website, argued that holding a “passive economic interest,” such as buying a token in hopes its price rises, should not, by itself, trigger securities regulation. Guillen wrote that digital assets should instead…

KuCoin has appointed former London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) executive Sabina Liu to lead its European business, tasking her with steering the exchange’s Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) expansion from Vienna after securing a crypto asset service provider license in Austria. Liu, who will serve as managing director of KuCoin EU, previously ran KuCoin’s institutional business and spent more than a decade at the LSEG working with global investment banks and cross-border trading clients, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. MiCA “guardrails” over growth at all costs Liu…

Cybersecurity researchers have raised red flags about a new artificial intelligence personal assistant called Clawdbot, warning it could inadvertently expose personal data and API keys to the public.  On Tuesday, Blockchain security firm SlowMist said a Clawdbot “gateway exposure” has been identified, putting “hundreds of API keys and private chat logs at risk.” “Multiple unauthenticated instances are publicly accessible, and several code flaws may lead to credential theft and even remote code execution,” it added.  Security researcher Jamieson O’Reilly originally detailed the findings on Sunday, stating that “hundreds of people…