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After weeks of steady buildup, the Ethereum price today is trading near $3,759, marking a 51 percent monthly surge and testing a multi-year triangle resistance on the monthly chart. This move comes as ETH challenges the upper boundary of a long-standing consolidation pattern, suggesting the potential for a macro breakout if the $3,800–$4,100 zone is cleared convincingly. What’s Happening With Ethereum’s Price? ETH price dynamics (Source: TradingView) Ethereum has pushed firmly into the apex zone of a multi-year triangle structure visible on the monthly chart. Price is now attempting to break out of this formation, with $4,095 acting as the…

Lido DAO (LDO) price rose more than 11% in a short period of time, temporarily reaching $1.03. This sudden increase is thought to be due to BlackRock’s application to add a staking feature to its Ethereum ETF. Chart showing the rise in LDO price following the news. Lido DAO operates as a liquid staking derivative provider for Ethereum. Users lock up their ETH with Lido DAO, assuming a certain amount of additional risk, and in return receive a token called stETH, considered equivalent to ETH. This allows users to both lock up their tokens and still have liquid use of…

A federal judge overseeing Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm’s criminal trial will allow jurors to hear testimony claiming he could have modified the platform “to deter criminals from using it.” In a Sunday order, Judge Katherine Failla denied a defense motion requesting to preclude testimony from a government witness over modifications Storm allegedly could have made to Tornado Cash. The witness, Philip Werlau, an investigator at the fraud investigation and Anti-Money Laundering compliance company AnChain.AI, will be allowed to offer testimony that Storm allegedly had the means to stop Tornado Cash from laundering the proceeds of crimes using…

A breakthrough for FTX creditors has emerged this week, as multiple claimants were officially verified under the separate Bahamas legal process, marking a long-awaited step forward. Creditor representative Sunil Kavuri confirmed the development on July 22, stating that those verified will be included in future distributions. FTX Bahamas: KYCGood news: Some FTX creditors have finally been verified in the Bahamas processThe record date has not been announced for the next distribution so those verified will be included pic.twitter.com/rAifeFw6BD — Sunil (FTX Creditor Champion) (@sunil_trades) July 22, 2025 The slow but steady progress in the Bahamas The process in The Bahamas…

Cryptocurrency analyst and trader Jason Pizzino is saying that Bitcoin (BTC) has more upside potential amid a weakening US dollar. In a new strategy session, Pizzino tells his 353,000 YouTube subscribers that the US dollar is likely to experience “further downside,” a factor that will benefit the price of Bitcoin. “I think this is good news for Bitcoin at this stage of the cycle… I’m counting on the US dollar continuing down. And in this stage of the cycle, where Bitcoin still heading up, I would still count on Bitcoin going up with the weakness in the US dollar.” Pizzino…

According to Coinbase director Conor Grogan, a total of 913,111 Ethereum (ETH) tokens are “lost forever” due to user error. The above-mentioned figure represents 0.76% of the entire ETH supply. At current prices, a total of $3.4 billion worth of ETH has been lost. Such user errors might include mistakenly sending ETH to non-recoverable addresses, smart contract mistakes, or failed multisig wallets. For instance, the Parity wallet, which was used by the Web3 Foundation, implemented multisig functionality, but the contract that governed access to these funds got destroyed. Roughly 306,000 ETH ($95 million at the time) ended up being frozen.…

“No member bank shall, directly or indirectly by any device whatsoever, pay any interest on any deposit which is payable on demand.” — Section 11(b) of the Banking Act of 1933 Money market funds — the world’s most boring financial product — terrified bankers as soon as they started to catch on in the 1970s. When interest rates soared beyond what banks were legally allowed to pay on deposits, money market funds, which faced no such restrictions, suddenly looked like a threat to the entire banking system. None other than Paul Volcker called money market funds a “regulatory arbitrage” that…

SharpLink Gaming (SBET), backed by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, announced in a new document filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it will raise $5 billion in new capital to increase its Ethereum acquisitions. SharpLink Gaming, traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “SBET,” has updated its existing offering agreement to increase its public offering from $1 billion to $6 billion. The newly filed prospectus supplement allows the company to sell an additional $5 billion of shares through AGP/Alliance Global Partners. The company reported selling approximately $720 million worth of shares under the previous agreement…

This is a segment from the Empire newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Crypto Week, in the end, was a roaring success. President Donald Trump signed the GENIUS bill at the end of last week, which not only means that he signed the first stablecoin-focused legislation into law, but it’s also quite a significant crypto milestone. But it’s not the end. There are still two other pieces of legislation making their way through the DC process currently: the CLARITY Act and the anti-CBDC bill. Paradigm’s Alexander Grieve explained on the Empire podcast this morning that he thinks GENIUS was “a…

EDX, which operates an institutional focused crypto exchange in the U.S. backed by the likes of Citadel, Fidelity and Virtu, has launched a global trading platform featuring perpetual futures, according to a press release on Tuesday. EDX International, based in Singapore, is offering trading in 44 cryptocurrency pairs, including bitcoin , ether (ETH), Solana’s SOL (SOL), and XRP , with initial liquidity provided by Virtu Financial, LTP, Hidden Road, and others. The exchange is for clients around the globe, excluding those in the U.S., with a particular focus on Asia-Pacific. The demand is coming from family offices and asset managers…