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Crypto trading infrastructure startup, Theo, has raised a $20 million round co-led by Hack VC and Anthos Capital. Other participants included crypto-native firms and individual investors affiliated with traditional trading companies such as Citadel, Jane Street, and JPMorgan. Theo is developing a system that allows retail users to deposit digital assets into strategy-specific vaults, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk. These vaults are designed to provide access to advanced trading strategies—including arbitrage, hedging, and cross-chain funding rate optimization—that are typically used by institutional players. The platform operates on a custom validator network that facilitates trade execution across both…
Ripple recently made a fresh move, minting 23,000,000 RLUSD over the past 24 hours. According to data from Ripple’s stablecoin tracker, a community X account that tracks the minting, redemption and transfer of Ripple’s RLUSD, the minting was carried out in two separate transactions, each totaling 11,500,000 RLUSD. 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵 11,500,000 #RLUSD minted at RLUSD Treasury.https://t.co/8NnnDuuwyn — Ripple Stablecoin Tracker (@RL_Tracker) April 25, 2025 Both minting events took place at the RLUSD Treasury, Ripple’s central hub for stablecoin issuance. This RLUSD minting demonstrates Ripple’s commitment to expanding the supply of the stablecoin, positioning it to meet increasing demand across various liquidity…
Analysts warn that investors may shift to stock replacement strategies as Bitcoin approaches the upper end of its $73,000 to $94,000 range. Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent rally has put it at the upper end of its trading range, and analysts are now warning that investors may look to stocks as a safer alternative. With Bitcoin now trading at around $93,500, the cryptocurrency has broken above its 21-week moving average, which is considered a key indicator for distinguishing between bull and bear markets, analysts at Matrixport noted in a recenet research report. 📃#MatrixOnTarget Report – April 25, 2025 ⬇️Bitcoin Rally- Time to…
VeChain is driving sustainability with the help of four unique decentralized applications. Users earn rewards in B3TR for living healthy lifestyles and contributing to a clean environment. The blockchain network VeChain has consistently promised to bring real-world utility to cryptocurrency. VeChain released four new Decentralized Applications (DApps) that reward daily action to fulfill this promise. The 4 VeChain DApps Bringing Real-World Utility VeChain proponent and Ambassador Sebastian on the social media platform X noted the four new DApps, highlighting their relevance to sustainability. Sebastian pointed out that while other chains have promised real-world utility, VeChain is shipping it. Image Source:…
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. While dozens of public companies currently hold bitcoin on their balance sheets, a world where thousands — yes, thousands — more follow suit is inevitable. At least according to panelists at Bitwise’s Bitcoin Standard Corporations Investor Day. “To everyone wearing an orange tie…It’s good to be on the team with you,” Strategy founder Michael Saylor told the Thursday event crowd. He then wanted the Pier 59 window shades lowered to prevent light from obfuscating his PowerPoint presentation. As if the bitcoin Gods heard him, they started…
The team behind the Melania Trump memecoin, MELANIA, has sold off more tokens despite concerns about a rug pull. According to EmberCN, the team has sold an additional 12.685 million MELANIA tokens worth $5.41 million. Per the report, they sold the tokens by adding unilateral liquidity to the MELANIA/SOL liquidity pool and withdrawing SOL. The latest sales follow earlier sell-offs of almost $15 million worth of tokens by the team and suggest that they might keep dumping until they run out of supply. EmberCN noted that since March 16, the team has transferred and sold 31.685 million MELANIA tokens from…
Legendary venture capitalist Tim Draper has taken to social media to declare that gold is dead. “It just sits there. Bitcoin moves,” he said. He has added that Bitcoin is “borderless,” permissionless,” and “programmable.” Bitcoin can be used for making run-of-the-mill purchases, which is impossible with gold, according to Draper. “You can’t buy coffee with gold. But with Bitcoin, you can — without banks, inflation, or friction,” the billionaire opined. However, some social media users were quick to point out that gold has substantially outperformed Bitcoin in 2025. The yellow metal is up more than 20% on a year-to-date basis…
Ethereum demonstrated evidence of new momentum this week as network activity and price action both reversed after a slow stretch. The second-largest cryptocurrency finally broke through a critical price barrier that had constrained its advance for over a week. Active Addresses Up By Almost 10% As per statistics from CryptoQuant analyst Carmelo Alemán, Ethereum’s network experienced a notable increase in user activity between April 20 and April 22. Active addresses increased from approximately 306,000 to more than 336,000 within this three-day period, a rise of nearly 10 percent. The network is just “heating up”, according to Alemán. Ethereum is Heating…
Cryptocurrency analysis company Santiment, in its latest report, touched upon the real-world asset (RWA) themed altcoins that cryptocurrency developers have focused on most in the last 30 days. Real-world assets (RWA) are based on the principle of tokenizing assets from outside the cryptocurrency world, such as real estate, stocks, and government bonds, and have become a particularly popular concept lately. Wall Street giants are particularly keen on tokenizing stocks. Some of the altcoins on Santiment’s list are directly linked to the RWA space, while others were indirectly included in the list due to the use of their networks. In preparing…
In April, many crypto market observers were writing about an ongoing decoupling or divergence of Bitcoin from equities, meaning that the trajectory of Bitcoin’s price took a different direction compared to stocks and equities. Bitcoin and Gold are up, while the American dollar and stocks are down. However, opinions among market experts on whether the Bitcoin and equities markets have truly diverged vary. Some enthusiastically proclaim that Bitcoin has decoupled from risk assets and joined Gold as a safe haven. The reason is not hard to see: lately, Bitcoin and Gold have been the only major assets with positive price…