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At the heart of the technological fray, cryptocurrency giants weave their web. Binance, one of these titans, faces a major challenge: the burning issue of liquidating its US operations.

In the midst of the U.S. presidential campaign, discussions are heating up around a variety of topics, including Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, which are attracting a great deal of interest. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida and Republican candidate for 2024, is firmly in favor of cryptos. During his campaign tour of New Hampshire, DeSantis firmly promised to end Biden's “war on Bitcoin” and cryptos if he became president.

With the Litecoin halving approaching, investor enthusiasm is reflected in the network's on-chain activity. Data provided by analysis company Santiment reveals aggressive accumulations by average investors, hinting at a bullish scenario for the token.

Donald Trump has declared in a speech that he will build the greatest economy in the history of the world. The former US president has in fact announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. One might wonder whether his approach will be in favor of the crypto sector. Having always shown a certain reticence towards bitcoin (BTC), the crypto market was nonetheless doing well during his term of office. His re-election could breathe new life into this heavily repressed market.

Late yesterday evening, Curve Finance suffered a re-entry attack. Provisional reports of the hack indicated a loss of some $26 million. Except that it was a long night for the Curve team, and so was the list of break-ins. According to the latest news, the total amount of money stolen is in the region of $52 million.

While Litecoin's Halving is generating interest this week, the flagship cryptocurrency, BTC, is showing a bullish configuration. One renowned trader claims that a rise towards $52k is inevitable for bitcoin (BTC), based on the SSA (Senko Span A), a component of the Ichimoku indicator.

The crypto sector is a tumultuous sea, sometimes capricious, sometimes farsighted. According to renowned analyst Dan Gambardello, Cardano ($ADA) could soon be making meaningful waves.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the SEC asked the platform to remove any assets other than Bitcoin from its list. All crypto assets except Bitcoin were, in fact, securities and had to be removed from the list, the regulator said. According to Armstrong, accepting this request would lead to the end of the crypto industry.

Cryptos are useful for those who invest funds in them. For some, it's a way of diversifying their asset portfolio. Others, on the other hand, see them as an effective way of disguising the provenance of illicitly earned funds.

According to a recent report by Ripple in partnership with United States Faster Payments Council (FPC), blockchain technology offers the prospect of saving financial institutions nearly $10 billion by 2030, by reducing the costs associated with cross-border payments.

Fabian Vogelsteller, lead developer of Ethereum and inventor of the ERC-20 standard, left the Ethereum Foundation in 2018 to focus on his own blockchain, Lukso. Since the launch of its main network in May, Lukso has been gaining in popularity thanks to its focus on more everyday use cases, such as fashion and lifestyle. Discover in this article the vision and motivations that have guided Vogelsteller on this exciting adventure.

The wait is over! August 8 marks the official launch of Ultra Arena, a revolutionary Esports tournament platform created by cryptographic gaming startup Ultra. Relying on its own blockchain, Ultra aims to offer an unprecedented route for amateur gamers, providing blockchain-based digital identities and NFT pricing.

Tim Draper is a well-known tech billionaire within the cryptosphere. According to this crypto investor, Bitcoin will soon outperform traditional fiat currencies. He explains why.

After a month-long range, the bitcoin price has come to make new lows since its annual ATH. What's the outlook for the leading cryptocurrency?

Cardano (ADA) puts in a string of masterful performances despite the regulatory crackdown in the USA. Just when everything seems to be going well, network founder Charles Hoskinson announces a fascinating update that should take Layer 2 solutions to the next level.

For a long time, BlackRock had opposed bitcoin (BTC) as an investment alternative. The financial behemoth has finally turned around and set itself up as an apostle of the flagship crypto.

On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ratified the law introducing the digital ruble (CBDC).

PacWest Bancorp's last resort: to beg its youngest son? Yes, because the company never recovered from its crisis. After a massive outflow of depositors, things got so bad that it agreed to a merger with a smaller lender, Banc of California.

Wright, the man who has long claimed to be the inventor of Bitcoin, has just lost a crucial legal battle. The verdict sheds light on the grey areas of his alleged invention. Elevated to the status of a myth, Wright suffered defeat at the hands of Peter McCormack. In 2019, McCormack had challenged his legitimacy as Bitcoin's inventor in a series of fiery tweets.

After a worrying technical break, Chainlink's share price performed at +60%. What prospects lie ahead for the benchmark blockchain oracle?

Has Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter really set the blue bird free? Or has he simply killed it? Since the takeover of the social network in October 2022, things have been going badly. But the new boss has just demonstrated that he has more than one trick up his sleeve. In addition to replacing Twitter with X.com, Musk also intends to take over half the world's financial system.

Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain seem to be competing with each other. This is despite the fact that some see them as complementary. However, recent work in the emerging field of neuromorphic computing could bridge the gap between these two areas of computing.

The parent cryptocurrency dropped by over 3% in one day. It dropped below the psychological $30,000 mark on Sunday night. This drop in price has caused the crypto market to plunge, particularly that of Ether and XRP. What could explain this trend? Is the market currently in the red? BFM Crypto explains.

The leading cryptocurrency continues to establish a consolidation phase around the $30,000 mark. The expected announcement of the FED's interest rate decision on Wednesday should bring further movement to the market. Although investors anticipate an imminent bullish rally, a slight correction in bitcoin (BTC) could emerge.

Offering new economic opportunities, creating a “reliable solution to distinguish humans from AI”, etc… Looking at these ambitious objectives, we can say that Sam Altman has one foot in the present, and the other in the future. He and his team must have been hard at work, for three years, to get to the stage of officially launching a crypto-asset like this. Now that Worldcoin is here, investors had better keep a close eye on it.

The BRICS nations have great ambitions for the global financial system. They have already announced plans to create a common currency for the organization's members. But their project goes beyond monetary issues. They want to counterbalance global geopolitics, and the initiative is of interest to many countries around the globe.

Over the past few days, Bitcoin's (BTC) value has been declining. This trend, however, doesn't dampen analysts' optimism about the flagship crypto's short-term prospects.

A group of hackers backed by the North Korean government managed to get into the system of JumpCloud, an American IT management company. They used the latter to target crypto companies with the aim of stealing digital assets. This latest case of hacking, which joins the long list of misdeeds orchestrated by North Korean hackers, has a rather different modus operandi. Should we be concerned? Find out in this article.