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Catherine Mcgrath

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GameStop now has $1.5 billion to splurge on a Bitcoin reserve after private offering 

The video game retailer is expanding from selling video games to also investing in Bitcoin.

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GameStop stock slides 23% after announcing strategy shift and plans to buy $1.3 billion worth of Bitcoin

The company also plans to close a “significant number” of its stores in coming months.

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Trump’s media group partners with Crypto.com to launch ‘Made in America’ ETFs

The ETFs will include Bitcoin, Cronos and other crypto as well as “America-first” securities.

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Bitcoin jumps 3% on reports that Trump will opt for fewer tariffs than expected 

Trump’s stance on tariffs has led investors to flee risky assets like crypto in recent weeks.

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Exclusive: crypto card issuer Rain raises $24.5 million in round led by Norwest Venture Partners

The company will use the money to hire more employees and develop new technology.

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Telegram-based blockchain TON raises $400 million from prominent crypto VCs

The investors will receive “token-based investments” in lieu of equity.

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Bitcoin is at its lowest price since November. Here’s what analysts say about buying the dip

The original cryptocurrency is down 30% from January highs because of Trump’s tariffs and inflation fears.

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Exclusive: Crypto wallet infrastructure company Privy raises $15 million in round led by Ribbit Capital

The company will use the money to double the size of its team in the next 18 months.

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TON surges 24% as Telegram founder Pavel Durov returns home to Dubai amid ongoing investigation

“The process is ongoing, it feels great to be home,” Durov wrote on Telegram Monday.

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Trump-backed World Liberty Financial raises $550 million in WLFI token sales

“The token sales are just the beginning."

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 Binance founder ‘CZ’ denies report of Trump investment, pardon campaign

The former Binance CEO said “I have had no discussions of a Binance US deal with…well, anyone.”

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Bitcoin rebounds after a rosy inflation report—but there are storm clouds on the horizon

Inflation hit 2.8% in February, adding 0.2% instead of the 0.3% economists expected.

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Exclusive: Former JPMorgan digital asset chief raises $3 million to transform real estate with blockchain technology 

Arda hopes to create a platform that aggregates data about real estate transactions and property management.

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Here’s why the price of Bitcoin dropped right after Trump created a strategic crypto reserve

The crypto reserve order “fell short of creating the extra market demand that many had hoped for.”

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Crypto prime brokerage August raises $10 million in round led by Dragonfly Ventures

The company will use the money to expand the team and develop new technology.

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Sam Bankman-Fried says Diddy has been ‘kind to me’ in interview with Tucker Carlson

Bankman-Fried shared what it’s like to be in prison with Diddy as the former crypto founder angles for a pardon from Trump.

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Coinbase renews its push for tokenized securities as the Trump administration emboldens the crypto industry

Coinbase CFO is excited to “re-engage those conversations with the SEC's task force.”

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AI crypto company Validation Cloud raises $15 million in Series A led by True Global Ventures

The company’s goal is to “be at the intersection of every transaction and every interaction in web3.”

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Bitcoin pops 6% after a top Trump official hints the administration is about to reveal its crypto reserve strategy

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Trump will announce crypto reserve plans during the first White House crypto summit.

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Trump’s planned crypto reserve pits Bitcoin loyalists against ‘alt-coin’ boosters

Cameron Winklevoss says “Bitcoin is the only asset that meets the bar for a store of value reserve asset.”

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Bitcoin plunges 28% from all-time high as Trump pump turns into slump

Trump’s tariff threats are weighing on the crypto market as investors flee risky assets.

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Spot Bitcoin ETFs experience record outflow, bleeding over $1 billion in one day

Despite the record outflows, Bloomberg analyst says it’s “par for the course.”

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Solana hits 5-month low as memecoin traders back off after $LIBRA scandal

Solana is often associated with memecoins because of its high transaction speed and low fees.

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Sam Bankman-Fried speaks out on X for first time in two years amid potential Trump pardon

It's unclear how Bankman-Fried was able to access social media from prison.

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Bybit just suffered the biggest attack in crypto history suffering $1.4 billion in losses

ByBit CEO says the platform is experiencing “massive withdrawals.”

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Defunct crypto exchange FTX begins to repay customers—but they’ll only get back a fraction of their crypto holdings

Affected customers with claims of less than $50,000 can access their funds through Kraken or BitGo.

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Binance.US is mounting an American comeback and vows to woo back customers

The American arm of Binance will now allow customers to use USD to trade crypto.

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Donald Trump is giving out $50 worth of his memecoin to people who previously bought other merchandise

$TRUMP has lost nearly 80% of its value since launching last month.

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Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao inspires flood of ‘Broccoli’ memecoins: ‘I am just posting my dog’s picture’

Changpeng Zhao had sparked rumors that he would launch his own dog-themed memecoin this week.

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Exclusive: Stablecoin company Plasma raises $24 million from Framework Ventures to launch its own blockchain

The company will use the money to launch its blockchain in the coming months.

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Decentralized finance platform Legend raises $15 million from a16z and Coinbase

Former Compound CEO is launching a DeFi platform to help investors trade, borrow, and earn crypto.

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Kanye West douses memecoin rumor; Dave Portnoy dives into Solana 

Trump’s memecoin has reignited the celebrity memecoin frenzy with Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy hopping on the trend.

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Bitcoin giant Strategy takes loss to stave off likely tax hit—and keeps buying Bitcoin

Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, has accumulated $46 billion worth of Bitcoin since 2020.

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Michael Saylor’s company rebrands to ‘Strategy’ and calls itself a ‘Bitcoin treasury company’

The company is the world’s largest corporate holder of Bitcoin.

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Trump created the first ever U.S. sovereign wealth fund: Will it include Bitcoin?

Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis sparks excitement by calling the move a ‘₿ig deal.’

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Bitcoin plunges below $100,000 amid tariff worries, XRP falls 33%

Cryptocurrencies lose $370 billion in market cap as investors flee digital assets.

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Grayscale files for XRP ETF but Litecoin will likely come first, Bloomberg analyst says

Grayscale wants to convert its $16 million XRP trust into an ETF on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Billionaire Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group launches crypto mining venture Fortitude

The new Fortitude venture will “look across the entire proof of work ecosystem to say what's going to give us the largest return.”

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Exclusive: Domain registration startup D3 raises $25 million from Paradigm to launch Doma blockchain

“All the good dot coms are taken. There's about 150 million of these things.”

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Billionaire Binance ‘CZ’ founder jumps back into crypto with $16 million investment in token airdrop service Sign

This investment is YZi Labs's first investment since rebranding from Binance Labs.

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Bitcoin tumbles amid broader market jitters over Chinese AI app DeepSeek

“Everybody should be looking at this as a gift.”

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Crypto czar David Sacks says NFTs and memecoins are collectibles, not securities

Sacks likened Trump’s recently-released memecoin to ‘a baseball card or a stamp.’

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Trump issues executive order on crypto: Here’s what it says

The executive order directs the government to propose a regulatory framework and explore the creation of a digital asset stockpile.

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Ethereum, beset by infighting, sags behind other tokens in a bull market

Ethereum is up 47% this year while its competitor, Solana, is up 200%.

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Solana battles Coinbase outages as SOL hits all-time high

“It’s clear we need to step up our game on Solana.”

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Trump’s inauguration sends Bitcoin on wild ride

Bitcoin jumps once more after earlier disappointment over lack of crypto policy on Trump’s first day.

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Trump is planning an executive order on crypto: Here’s what that could look like

The executive order would make crypto a ‘national priority.’

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XRP and Solana ETPs could rake in as much as $14 billion, JPMorgan says

The banking giant projects each ETP could bring in $3 billion to $8 billion in investment.

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Ripple’s XRP breaks $3 for first time since 2018, nears all-time high

XRP surged 12% on speculation that Trump’s administration will support Ripple and the crypto industry.

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Bitcoin rebounds to $100,000 as inflation data puts Fed rate cuts ‘back on the table’

The original cryptocurrency has risen 9% since hitting a 30-day low of $90,600.

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