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Bitcoin staged a brief relief rally above $74,000 on Thursday, but it has already petered out as analysts predict a persistent bear market will keep momentum subdued.  “Bitcoin is still in a bear market despite the recent rally,” on-chain analytics company CryptoQuant said on Thursday. The platform’s Bull Score Index, a composite indicator that measures

Bitcoin is likely to outperform gold on price performance through to 2029 after gold’s strong recent rally, says macroeconomist Lyn Alden. “If I had to bet Bitcoin versus gold over the next two to three years, I would bet Bitcoin,” Alden said on the New Era Finance podcast on Wednesday. “Gun to my head, if

Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says Solana ETF inflows are posting “pretty impressive numbers,” even as the token has dropped by more than half since they launched. Exchange-traded funds tied to Solana have held on to their early inflows, despite the token having more than halved in price since the funds were launched, which analysts

Crypto security researchers say the hacker exploited a bug allowing them to mint tokens, before swapping the freely-gained tokens for another tied to Bitcoin. Bitcoin-based decentralized finance platform Solv Protocol says one of its token vaults was exploited for $2.7 million and has offered the attacker a 10% bounty in exchange for returning the stolen

US regulators have clarified that tokenized securities will receive the same capital treatment as their traditional counterparts, saying the rules are “technology neutral.”  The Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said on Thursday that they would treat traditional and tokenized securities the same under bank

Senator Chris Murphy says it’s likely people close to Donald Trump with “inside information” made bets on prediction markets on when the US would strike Iran. US Democratic lawmakers are working on a bill to police prediction markets after raising insider trading concerns over bets made on the timing of Israeli and US strikes on

The quantum computing company PsiQuantum is a step closer to its goal of building the world’s first useful quantum computer, breaking ground on the construction of a 1 million-qubit quantum facility, a size that scientists say is powerful enough to crack Bitcoin’s cryptography. PsiQuantum co-founder Peter Shadbolt shared a photo of its Chicago site on

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has ended its lawsuit against crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun with a $10 million settlement, wrapping up a three-year legal battle over alleged fraud and securities laws violations. The SEC said in a letter to a Manhattan federal court on Thursday that Rainberry, one of Sun’s companies, would pay a

Key takeaways: ETH derivatives signal a shift to safety as professional desks hedge against downside risks and global instability. Institutional preference for decentralization keeps Ethereum dominant despite its recent drop in network activity. Ether (ETH) price dropped by 6% following a brief rally to $2,200 on Wednesday, tracking a downturn in US equities as the

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seeking to require electronic delivery of tax forms to crypto exchange users. Under the current rules, exchanges are required to provide paper copies of tax form 1099-DA, the IRS tax form used to document crypto transactions from a centralized exchange or broker, if users request paper forms. The