Marvie Basilan

It's been more than two months since the Bitcoin halving, but some miners are still struggling to stay afloat, especially as $BTC prices have been on a downtrend in recent weeks – how are miners these days?

The SEC supposedly provided a new round of comments that "took zero time" for applicants to update, but what is taking the regulator longer than initially expected to fully approve spot ETH ETFs for trading?

An Illinois judge has ordered Sam Ikkurty of Oregon and several other defendants for defrauding investors whose funds were supposed to have been invested in digital assets such as Bitcoin.

Bitcoin has plunged again, and while bulls are racing to get sentiment on a high note, some industry experts are trying to quell the seeming "overconfidence" surrounding the bull circle even as crypto prices dive.

Bitcoin and Ether, the world's top two digital assets by market cap, led liquidations that passed $260 million in the past 24 hours – prices are sliding, spot BTC ETFs saw negative flows, and the full approval of spot ETH ETFs has apparently been pushed back.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs made history in January when they were approved for trading, but half a year since their launch, the funds' flows have "stagnated." Does this prove some early concerns about BTC ETFs being overrated?

Jack Dorsey believes Bitcoin is the public's key toward "permissionless" financial transactions, and he also sees potential in the digital currency possibly replacing the U.S. dollar in 15 years.

Mike Novogratz revealed that "most" Democrats outside the circle of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren are actually pro-crypto – the claim comes amid increasing Republican support for the digital assets space.

Bitfarms continues to operate as usual even with Riot Platforms' earlier attempts at a hostile takeover – it mined 189 Bitcoins during the BTC price downturn season and has been expanding operations.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas became the first House Democrat to publicly call on U.S. President Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, triggering a spike from two memecoins based on Democratic politicians.

Coinbase has been chosen to help manage the top digital assets seized by the U.S. Marshals Service, and for the crypto exchange giant, the collaboration is a major step forward in growing the cryptoeconomy.

Nuklai is well on its way toward its vision of a Smart Data City, and with its 2025 roadmap targets established, users and developers should expect greater things from the blockchain network that advocates for a collaborative data ecosystem.

The Ethereum ecosystem has been thriving even at Bitcoin's shadow, but in the first half of the year, it suffered security incidents that resulted in hundreds of millions in losses.

Nycrypto Labs has raised a sizeable amount in pre-seed financing to scale its multi-chain Tidus Wallet that empowers users to navigate the vast Web3 space without leaving the app.

RAIR Technologies has forged a strategic partnership with HackIndia, the largest Web3 hackathon event in India. Participants will have access to RAIR's open-source developer tools, and a token pool prize will be provided to hackathon champions.

The memecoin sector has skyrocketed to the moon in recent months, and while there are tokens that have shown significant growth, others have only resulted in losses – for an industry expert, the proliferation of scam tokens only calls for improved security measures for a promising yet "chaotic" market.

The Ethereum community initially expected spot Ether ETFs to go live sometime this week following good signs in the process in recent weeks, but there has been some delay, and the holiday week is expected to push back the full approval further.

Are memecoins moving according to the news? It seems so – at least based on Sunday night's movement among PolitiFi tokens when a Democratic representative revealed that the Party was having "serious" talks after the incumbent president's debate performance.

Bitcoin has bounced back above $63,000, but there are still concerns about the MtGox dump starting this week that could push prices down again.

The launch of VanEck's VBTC on the ASX drew attention to Australia's evolving views of the cryptocurrency industry, and it could further propel the Australian public's growing trust for Bitcoin as a suitable investment.

The crypto industry remains vulnerable to fraud and exploits, a new blockchain security report revealed as the sector lost more than $920 million to exploiters so far this year – a larger chunk from the second quarter.

SOL surged Thursday after VanEck became the first company to file for a spot Solana ETF, and some analysts have already projected the fund's potential launch sometime next year.

The first U.S. presidential debate Thursday night appears to have affected most leading political memecoins, but interestingly, the RFK Jr.-themed $BOBBY coin surged instead of plunged with the others.

Coinbase sued the SEC and FDIC on Thursday, accusing the U.S. financial regulators of seeking to destroy the digital assets industry and purposefully working to de-bank crypto firms.

Around $241 million worth of Bitcoin seized from Banmeet Singh has been moved to a Coinbase Prime hot wallet by a digital wallet linked to the U.S. government, and questions are up about the motivation behind the transfer.

Political finance (PolitiFi), an emerging trend in the broader crypto sector, is taking the memecoin realm by storm, and just a few months before the November elections, PolitiFi memecoins can play a role in the campaigns of the three presidential frontrunners.

The U.S. has increased its reward offering to anyone who can provide information that could lead to the arrest or conviction of "Cryptoqueen," who was reported to have been killed in 2018, but the FBI said she could have gone under the knife.

An anonymous Bitcoin donor whom some in the community have tagged as possibly Jack Dorsey, donated approximately 8 Bitcoin worth nearly $500,000 to Julian Assange's chartered flight costs, covering nearly the entire debt.

El Salvador continues to educate its people about Bitcoin, and students are now on a higher level of learning as they are being taught about ASICs – critical components of the crypto mining industry.