
Trump Defends $1.4B Crypto Windfall as US Shapes Digital Asset Rules
The US President reported at least $1.4 billion in crypto income for 2025, drawing scrutiny as his administration crafts industry rules with implications for Europe.
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The US President reported at least $1.4 billion in crypto income for 2025, drawing scrutiny as his administration crafts industry rules with implications for Europe.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand wants to bar members of Congress, the president and their spouses from launching digital assets, following Donald Trump's crypto earnings disclosure.
Binance opens back-to-back trading competitions for NEX and SENT tokens, offering large voucher pools to eligible Alpha and Spot traders across its Web3 platform.
Analysts say Bitcoin sits roughly $5,000 from a level that has marked the floor in past bear markets, drawing European traders' attention.
Nearly 1,700 British investors are seeking at least £150 million from the crypto exchange Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao in a new group action.
Strong tokenization and RWA growth underline Ethereum's fundamentals, but heavy ETF outflows are weighing on ETH's price outlook.
A new consortium-backed dollar token, Open USD, has rattled Circle investors, with shares falling sharply as more than 100 firms line up behind the challenger.
The US president's 2025 financial disclosure reveals more than $1 billion in earnings from crypto ventures, even as the wider market cooled.
The US Treasury targeted over 130 Tron wallets tied to a Central Asian ISIS affiliate, with issuer Tether freezing the associated funds.
The subsidiary of Japan's SBI Group is winding down its Bitcoin mining pool, giving miners until July 31 to redirect their hashrate.
The BlackRock-backed tokenization firm listed on the NYSE while issuing tokenized versions of its shares on Solana and Avalanche—the largest issuer-sponsored stock token at launch.
Kash Patel reported a stake in Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy well past the filing deadline, insisting no conflict of interest exists despite the company's government contractor status.
Standard Chartered will let institutional clients mint and redeem Circle's USDC stablecoin directly through banking rails, starting in Dubai.
Ondo Finance says it has launched the first tokenised U.S. securities that stay fully within existing regulation, offering token holders full voting rights.
Bitcoin gained more than 4% to top $61,000 after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation pressures had softened, shrugging off a sharp sell-off in South Korean equities.
The Japanese firm bought 2,823 BTC in the second quarter, cementing its place as the world's third-largest publicly traded bitcoin holder.
With 244 crypto firms now authorised across the EU, new licences for Tothemoon, Lightspark and others mark the close of MiCA's transition — and a clearer path for global players eyeing Europe.
The Japanese firm has become the world's third-largest publicly traded bitcoin holder, and its aggressive treasury strategy is drawing attention from European corporates.
Comments from Fed Chair Kevin Warsh lifted bitcoin above $60,000, with solana, ether and dogecoin all gaining as crypto rebounded from an AI-driven capital drain.
FBI chief Kash Patel invested heavily in Strategy (MSTR), a major corporate bitcoin holder, but failed to file a required disclosure on time, according to NOTUS.
The custody firm's integration with Binance aims to cut counterparty risk, a key barrier keeping institutional investors out of crypto markets.
The brokerage unveiled its Arbitrum-based Robinhood Chain at a London event, rolling out tokenized stocks in 120+ countries and confirming crypto trading is coming to the UK.
Franklin Templeton moved a tokenized US Treasury to Virtu Financial in what Tradeweb called the first real-time transaction settled against USDCx on the Canton Network.
A new Ethereum Institutional effort has drawn support from across the network's ecosystem as its support structures continue to evolve.
The Trump-family-linked mining firm hit a fresh low this week as it prepares a share consolidation aimed at keeping its Nasdaq listing.
Robinhood unveiled its public mainnet, a set of DeFi products and plans to bring crypto trading to UK residents after months of testing.
Bitcoin climbed back above $60,000 after weaker US economic data revived hopes that the Federal Reserve's hawkish stance may be softening.
The U.S. president's 2025 financial disclosure shows digital assets now outpace his golf courses and hotels as a source of personal wealth.
Binance has opened trading in bStocks, tokenized US equities regulated in Abu Dhabi, alongside a limited-time campaign quadrupling Alpha Points volume for eligible traders.
British crypto investors have filed suit against Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao, seeking nearly $200 million over losses tied to the exchange's derivatives products.