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The price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies wavered on Friday as investors weighed the White House’s latest round of tariffs against fresh signs of a weakening U.S. labor market. Bitcoin was recently changing hands around $115,500, a 2.1% decrease over the past day, according to crypto data provider CoinGecko. Ethereum fell 3.8% to $3,630, while XRP and Solana showed similar losses at $3.05 and $169, respectively. Stock indices swooned, with the S&P 500 falling 1.5% midday. The tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped 2%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled over 570 points. On Thursday night, the Trump administration refreshed rates for…

United States President Donald Trump has taken an important step against banking practices targeting the cryptocurrency sector. President Trump aims to end what he calls “unfair” practices by federal regulators against financial institutions working with the cryptocurrency sector with the new executive order he signed today. “The digital assets industry has been targeted by unfair banking disruptions. Such practices undermine public trust in the banking system and regulators, jeopardize livelihoods, freeze wages, and impose serious economic burdens on honest Americans,” the White House said in a memo. The decree removes the concept of reputational risk, which the US Federal Reserve…

Stablecoin rails are on pace to challenge incumbent cross-border networks by 2026, as monthly on-chain dollar settlement already runs in the trillions and merchant access widens through mainstream processors. Per RWA.xyz’s live dashboard, stablecoins moved about $3.3 trillion on chain in July, with roughly 39.7 million monthly active addresses, while total stablecoin value sits near $259 billion. The crossover case rests on three levers. First, payments access is improving. Stripe said it has reintroduced crypto payments, starting with USDC on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, putting stablecoins back into standard checkout flows with further feature rollouts in 2025. Coinbase and PayPal…

Trading volume on decentralized exchange Hyperliquid surged to a new monthly all-time high in July, marking a record for decentralized finance (DeFi) perpetual futures exchanges as more traders flocked to them. Hyperliquid hit $319 billion of trading volume during July, marking a new monthly record high across all DeFi perpetual futures exchanges, according to DefiLlama data. Hyperliquid’s record is a sign of more traders using decentralized exchanges, which are starting to cut into the market share of centralized cryptocurrency exchanges (CEXs). Source: DeFiLlama Hyperliquid earned 35% of all blockchain revenue during July, capturing significant value at the expense of Solana,…

It’s become more expensive to use derivatives to insure against a decline in ether (ETH) than in bitcoin , indicating that market sentiment has shifted against the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, data from Deribit shows.The sentiment shift comes after weeks of big money favoring ether over its larger peer. According to data from Amberdata, ether’s 25-delta risk reversals for options expiring in August and September were trading at -2% to -7%. That means put options, which provide protection against drops in price, carry a 2% to 7% premium over call options, reflecting an apparent concern about a potential downside…

The Fed’s decision to hold its benchmark interest rate steady for a fifth consecutive year was opposed by Board members Christopher Waller and Michelle Bowman. The two members argued that the interest rate should be cut by 25 basis points, highlighting the weakening labor market. In statements released today, Waller and Bowman stated that the Fed’s “wait-and-see” approach is overly cautious and could cause unnecessary harm to the labor market. Waller said, “I believe the current cautious stance is overly cautious. Failure to properly balance the risks to the economic outlook could lead to monetary policy becoming unresponsive to developments.”…

Two men have reportedly been arrested for allegedly throwing sex toys during Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) games, a controversial prank which a memecoin group has taken responsibility for. Five incidents of sex toys, mainly green in color, being thrown onto the court during WNBA matches have occurred in the past two weeks, the last of which occurred on Thursday in Chicago. Speaking to USA Today on Thursday, a spokesperson for the group behind the recently launched Green Dildo Coin (DILDO) memecoin, who goes by Daldo Raine on X, said he and other crypto enthusiasts were behind the stunts. The…

OKX, a well-known crypto exchange, now lets folks in the U.S. and Europe buy crypto using Apple Pay. That means you can grab Bitcoin or other coins quickly and easily, straight from your phone. It might seem like a small update, but it’s actually a big deal—especially for people just starting out with crypto. It makes buying digital coins way simpler and less confusing. Why This Matters For a long time, buying crypto felt intimidating. You had to connect a wallet, use a credit card or do a bank transfer—sometimes even go through third-party apps. It was time-consuming, and for…

The WLFI project is preparing to launch a new loyalty program for USD1 stablecoin holders that will involve selected partners and a points system. Here’s how holders can earn points. Summary World Liberty Financial will launch a rewards program exclusively for USD1 stablecoin holders soon. Users can earn points by holding, trading, staking and using USD1 as well as other means. According to a recent post by World Liberty Financial, the program will launch with a selected group of partners that the project will team up with from the crypto exchange space. Although the project has yet to unveil the…

Eth OS is becoming a trailblazer in Ethereum. It is intended as a fully on-chain stack operating system that brings Ethereum functions to mobile devices, so that storage in an external wallet, browser extension, or centralized app store is no longer necessary. EthOS will also be able to conquer network congestion, high gas fees, and scalability issues to provide an easy user experience to average people. Light Clients: The Hinge of Security A light client is a slimmed down Ethereum node that uses a chain with only block headers, rather than the chain itself. With Merkle proofs, it is able…