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Carlos Garcia

Carlos Garcia

The Atlantic

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Kalshi locks in $22 billion valuation, gaining slight edge over its rival Polymarket

The startup has doubled its valuation in about two months.

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France is experiencing wave of crypto assault. One involved an influencer’s father doused with gasoline

A majority of so-called wrench attacks so far this year have occurred in France.

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XRP leapfrogs BNB to take fourth most valuable crypto spot

The jump comes as Ripple expands in Brazil.

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Exclusive: Polymarket acquires the startup Brahma, in effort to scale its crypto and DeFi infrastructure

The startup aims to help the prediction market platform become one of the biggest consumer-facing crypto companies.

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Betting on 5-minute swings on Bitcoin price are the hot new thing on prediction markets

As Kalshi and Polymarket balloon in popularity, so too do quick-hit bets on crypto.

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Bitcoin has mined 20 million coins: Why the last of the remaining 1 million won’t arrive until 2140

The original cryptocurrency, started in 2009, reached the milestone this week.

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Flagship Dubai crypto conference Token2049, in sudden reversal, cancels due to Iran war

Token2049, the biggest crypto conference series, announced that it would not be taking place this year in Dubai.

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Ripple valued at $50 billion after $750 million share buyback

The fintech company’s valuation has grown despite a downturn in the digital assets industry.

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Bitcoin outperforms gold and stocks since beginning of Iran war

After months of sputtering, the original cryptocurrency catches some momentum.

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Dubai’s signature Token2049 crypto event set to go forward even as other conferences hit pause amid growing conflict

The two-day conference bills itself as one of the world’s premier crypto events.

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Bitcoin dives again after disappointing jobs report, ending midweek rally

The recent bullish sentiment around the currency quickly evaporated amid fresh uncertainty.

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Exclusive: Cyclops raises $8 million to build stablecoin infrastructure for payments companies

The startup’s customers include urban helicopter service Blade and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin.

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A brief collapse in Bitcoin price echoes earlier geopolitical conflicts—but a rapid bounceback shows the long term impact of Iran strikes are unclear

The original cryptocurrency experienced more volatility as global conflict intensified over the weekend.

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NBA star’s partnership with a prediction market raises new questions for a troubled sports betting landscape

The NBA star announced he would become a shareholder in the largest U.S> prediction market.

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Bitcoin rides Nvidia wave to spike above $70,000 before pulling back

The tech giant reported earnings on Wednesday, causing volatility in both crypto and traditional indexes.

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Circle shares surge after surprise earnings beat shows strong demand for stablecoins

Despite a prolonged downturn for the crypto industry, the giant stablecoin issuer’s revenue beat expectations.

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Bitcoin stabilizes after tariff whiplash briefly sends price below $65,000

The latest volatility for the original cryptocurrency follows the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on Friday.

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American Express and Visa alumni raise $4 million for Rhythmic, which partners with brands to provide financial products for their customers

Startup aims to make stablecoins more accessible to the general public.

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Harvard shakes up its crypto strategy by selling Bitcoin and purchasing Ethereum

The Ivy League school still has more money invested in a Bitcoin ETF than any other US stock.

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GoFundMe campaign seeks to buy Bitcoin to help spur Nancy Guthrie’s release

The fundraiser effort comes after a new letter was sent to TMZ demanding Bitcoin in exchange for information about Guthrie’s captors

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Crypto lender BlockFills suspends withdrawals for clients in latest blow to the blockchain sector

During the digital assets crash of 2022, lenders made similarly protective moves.

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Levl raises $7 million to provide stablecoin infrastructure for fintechs

The startup aims to “abstract away the complexity” for business to business transactions and remittances.

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Nancy Guthrie’s family faces $6 million Bitcoin ransom demand: How such a payment would take place

Savannah Guthrie and her siblings released a video saying ‘we will pay’.

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Crypto market in free fall as Bitcoin plunges below $70,000 while shares of Coinbase and Circle tumble

Bitcoin holder Strategy is also taking a beating as prices sink to 2024 levels.

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Kairos, which is building a cross-platform tool for prediction markets traders, raises $2.5 million from a16z crypto

The startup’s platform will display bets from Kalshi and Polymarket.

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Why Bitcoin is in a bear market: Analyst points to 3 factors after currency swoons below $75,000

The original cryptocurrency recovered slightly on Monday.

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The crypto industry used to store Bitcoin in Swiss vaults. Now one firm is using vaults to hold gold instead

The CEO of Tether called the bunker ‘a James Bond kind of place.’

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Why Strategy bought another $2 billion in Bitcoin despite a slumping crypto market

Michael Saylor’s company now holds more than 709,000 Bitcoin

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BitGo shares enjoy modest pop on first trading day as crypto IPO parade resumes

The crypto custody firm is valued at over $2 billion.

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Judge hits Chinese crypto scammer who helped swindle $37 million from U.S. victims with 46-month sentence

The fraudster was part of a ring that carried out a scam known as pig butchering.

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Major crypto bill overcomes obstacle as senator cuts plan to target credit card fees

The much anticipated legislation has an easier path forward following weeks of turbulence.

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Strategy buys more Bitcoin—$264 million of it—even as Bitcoin slumps to $87,000

The move came only a week after executive chairman Michael Saylor made a separate $2 billion Bitcoin purchase.

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Exclusive: Stanford professor raises $15 million for Babylon, a decentralized protocol to turn Bitcoin into collateral 

The startup aims to provide an alternative to platforms like Coinbase and Tether for those seeking to put their Bitcoin to work.

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Crypto market reels in face of tariff turmoil, Bitcoin falls below $90,000 as key legislation stalls

Altcoins also drop as tensions rise between the U.S. and Europe.

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Stablecoins will shake up the $900 billion remittance market—setting up a fight between crypto firms and legacy brands like Western Union

There is huge room for disruption in a money transfer industry where fees are often as high as 6%.

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Bitcoin closes in on $100,000 in surprise surge

The original cryptocurrency is soaring after ending 2025 in a slump.

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Meld raises $7 million to integrate stablecoin networks, build the ‘Visa for crypto’

The startup’s Meld network seeks to be a one-stop shop across different countries

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Rumors are swirling about Venezuela holding $60 billion in Bitcoin—but crypto experts are skeptical

What we know about the South American country’s crypto holdings.

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Business leaders are growing more optimistic, JPMorgan survey finds

Almost two in five leaders at midsize businesses expressed optimism—especially about their own company’s future performance.

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JPMorgan to allow crypto trading for institutional clients in latest embrace of the sector

CEO Jamie Dimon appears to have reversed course from once equating Bitcoin with a “pet rock.”

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Notorious crypto con man Sam Bankman-Fried has a prison passion project: giving legal advice to other inmates

The face of crypto fraud is helping other criminals prepare for their court cases.

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North Korea stole a record amount of crypto—again: report estimates  its hackers’ 2025 haul at $2 billion

The country has now pilfered about $7 billion in crypto all-time.

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Exclusive: Visa launches stablecoins advisory practice to keep up with crypto wave

The payment giant is seeking to guide fintechs and banks in navigating the crypto landscape

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Judge tells notorious crypto scammer ‘you have been bitten by the crypto bug’ in handing down 15 year sentence 

Do Kwon orchestrated a $40 billion fraud, leading to 2022 crypto crash

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Exclusive: Crypto startup LI.FI raises $29 million for cross-blockchain price discovery tool

The company aims to make moving across blockchains more efficient.

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Robinhood launches staking for Ethereum and Solana in ongoing crypto expansion 

The trading platform dives further into digital assets both domestically and globally.

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Trump media firm dives into red hot prediction markets, in tie-up with Crypto.com

Prediction contracts will be available on the social media site Truth Social, allowing users to bet on elections and sports, among other events.

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Bitcoin bounces back more than 10% after brutal week

The biggest cryptocurrency gets a big lift from Vanguard’s surprise embrace of crypto ETFs

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Exclusive: Former Citadel employees raise $17 million for Fin, a global stablecoin app ‘without all the complexity’

The startup aims to allow businesses to conduct big cross-border transactions in cheap and rapid fashion.

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Vanguard has a change of heart on crypto, lists Bitcoin and other ETFs

The brokerage firm, long averse to crypto, will let traders buy and sell blockchain-wrapped funds.

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