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CleanSpark, one of the biggest Bitcoin miners in the US, has acquired GRIID Infrastructure, another Bitcoin miner, through a $155 million transaction. The merger comes as CleanSpark expands its foothold over the Bitcoin mining space by acquiring data centers and other miners. This way, the firm gets to channel more power to increase the number of bitcoins it mines and drive up profits by providing processing power to meet the computational requirements of AI companies. It recently acquired...

Analysts at market intelligence platform CryptoQuant have outlined on-chain metrics that could signal that the bitcoin (BTC) price has bottomed and cryptocurrencies are beginning to rally again. The latest weekly CryptoQuant report mentioned signals like higher bullish momentum, rising BTC demand, and faster stablecoin liquidity growth as the metrics to watch. Higher Bullish Momentum CryptoQuant’s Bitcoin Bull-Bear Market Cycle indicator currently signals that the crypto...

It’s been a relatively calm 24 hours in the cryptocurrency market, with the majority of coins failing to gain any notable grounds. The opposite is also true – most of the altcoins trade in a state of equilibrium. While this might oftentimes turn out to be a precursor to a considerable move in either direction, let’s have a closer look at how prices developed in the last day. Bitcoin Price Solidifes at $61K The BTC price was consolidating around $60K yesterday, but the bulls...

Free speech champions across the world celebrated earlier this week as Julian Assange – founder of WikiLeaks – was finally released from a UK prison after five years behind bars. During his more than decade-long legal battle to escape persecution from multiple national governments, Assange often leaned on crypto to drive global fundraising campaigns to secure his freedom. A newly resurfaced video from years before Assange’s arrest shows him praising cryptocurrencies as a...

Coinbase and Stripe will collaborate on bringing on- and off-ramps on both platforms for users wanting to access stablecoins easily. The ramps will let them convert fiat to USDC and vice versa for national currencies from 150 nations. The deal will integrate USDC settlements made from on Base, a quick and cost-effective layer 2 rollup for Ethereum developed by Coinbase. In April, co-founder and President of Stripe, John Collison, announced during the company’s Sessions event that it would...

Thursday night’s political stare-down featured US President Joe Biden and presidential nominee Trump going head-to-head in the first presidential debate on the road to November’s elections. Both participants have their parties backing them as the nominees for the presidential elections. Everyone was glued to the spectacle, from the US and elsewhere, including many from the crypto industry. However, crypto enthusiasts were left disappointed because nothing about the industry was mentioned....

VanEck, the American investment firm, has filed an S-1 registration form with the SEC to issue SOL ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) in the US. It is the first filing for a SOL ETF in the country. The cryptocurrency’s price saw 8% gains in the 24 hours following the news. The filing comes six days after another asset manager, 3iQ, filed to issue SOL ETFs in Canada. VanEck is most notably known for filing to offer ETH ETFs in the US in 2021. While it was not approved immediately, the SEC has...

On June 25, the ECB published an update on its two-year preparation phase for the digital Euro CBDC that ends in October 2025. The central bank said that privacy and data protection are its top priorities, but there are a number of disturbing features to the currency that would result in the total opposite. On June 26, crypto entrepreneur and investor Daniel Batten highlighted a few of them. JUST IN: ECB announce first progress report on the digital Euro Features:– easier to...

The free reign stablecoin issuers had in the European markets is ending on June 30 as the EU’s MiCA (Markets in Crypto Assets) regulations will enforce caps on transaction volumes and value. That means asset-referenced stablecoins not pegged to the Euro, witnessing over a million transactions or facilitating the movement of value over $215 million will need to be discontinued in the bloc. Transactions considered for the caps will include those conducted for payments of goods and services...

Crypto market intelligence provider IntoTheBlock published a report on Thursday comparing the best risk-adjusted methods to earn yield in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). Despite the “nearly infinite number of composable strategies” the firm claims its most optimal to stick to “straightforward strategies,” that boil down to “only a handful of different primitives.” The Best Way to Earn In DeFi The first strategy highlighted by the firm is AMM Liquidity...