Brokerage services giant Charles Schwab plans to roll out spot cryptocurrency trading in the first half of 2026, pushing it deeper into digital assets. “We remain on track to launch our spot crypto offer in the first half of 2026, starting with bitcoin BTC$66,939.31 and ether (ETH),” a company spokesperson told CoinDesk on Friday. The…
Elliptic said Thursday the $285 million Drift Protocol exploit, the largest this year, carries “multiple indicators” of North Korea’s state-sponsored DPRK hacker group involvement. The research firm pointed specifically to onchain behavior, laundering methodologies and network-level signals, all of which align with previous state-linked attacks. Drift Protocol, whose token has dropped over 40% to roughly…
By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin BTC$66,825.83 is stuck in a tight range near $66,600 ahead of the Good Friday holiday, as geopolitical tensions and shifting macro expectations keep prices contained. While the cryptocurrency saw a slight rise in the last 24 hour period it failed to break above $67,000. It’s…
The International Monetary Fund also warns that the distribution and speed of on-chain transactions bring new challenges and risks that require international coordination. In a new staff research note published on Thursday, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) argues that tokenization represents a “structural shift in financial architecture,” not just an incremental efficiency gain. Authored by…
XRP is grinding higher, but not breaking out. The token is sitting around $1.33 after a modest move up, with higher volume coming in — yet price still isn’t escaping its range. That usually means positioning is building, not conviction. News Background XRP rose just over 1% to $1.33 with volume about 23% above its…
Coinbase got conditional approval from the OCC for its trust, a step toward federal oversight for its offerings to replace the current state by state licensing approach. Coinbase announced on Thursday that it has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish Coinbase National Trust Company, a non-insured…
Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms sold 3,778 BTC in the first quarter of 2026, generating roughly $289.5 million in net proceeds. Riot Platforms, a major publicly traded Bitcoin mining company listed on Nasdaq, sold 3,778 BTC during Q1 2026, netting approximately $289.5 million in proceeds. The sale represents a significant reduction in the miner’s Bitcoin…
NEAR Protocol (NEAR) gained 5.8% and Avalanche (AVAX) climbed 3.6%. Source link
The U.S. employment market rebounded in a big way from February’s sizable losses. According to a Friday morning release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the country added 178,000 jobs in March, after losing 133,000 positions the previous month. Economist forecasts had been for 60,000 jobs to have been added. The unemployment rate fell to…
The Ethereum Foundation staked roughly $93 million in ether (ETH) on Thursday in several batches, bringing its total staked position to approximately $143 million and nearly completing the 70,000 ETH staking target it announced in February, according to Arkham data. The total deposit of 45,034 ETH was split into uniform chunks of 2,047 ETH, each…