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The crypto market is showing recovery amid the second day of the partial US government shutdown. On Thursday, the price of Bitcoin rose to $121,000—for the first time since mid-August. Ether is holding above $4,500, its best level in the past three weeks. Recall that Bitcoin’s all-time high was recorded on August 14—around $

Soon, Crypto.com users will be able to earn on stablecoins through Morpho — a decentralized lending protocol. According to the company, Morpho will launch stablecoin markets on the Cronos blockchain, with the first pools opening this year. The idea is simple: users will be able to deposit wrapped assets like ETH or BTC into Morpho

VanEck has officially registered the VanEck Lido Staked Ethereum ETF trust in Delaware. If the application is approved, this will expand the line of crypto ETFs already available through the company. Following the news, the LDO token rose by more than 7%. According to the documents, the new fund is set up as a statutory

On Wednesday, the S&P 500 set a new record, rising to 6711 points just before the market closed. The daily gain was 0.34%. Earlier in the session, the index also hit an intraday high — all of this happened against the backdrop of the first US government shutdown in seven years. Nasdaq Composite also added

At the Token2049 event in Singapore, World Liberty Fi CEO Zak Whitcoff said that the company is exploring various ways to implement tokenized real assets and plans to tie them to its stablecoin USD1. According to Whitcoff, WLFi is actively working in this direction: ‘We are very interested in commodity markets — oil, gas, cotton

According to sources, there is active preparation going on behind the scenes — fund issuers are getting ready for the possibility that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could give the green light to spot Solana-ETF applications in the coming days. After the SEC approved universal listing standards for crypto exchange-traded products (ETP), and

Tether Holdings SA has partnered with the gaming streaming platform Rumble Inc. to expand the use of its newly launched stablecoin USAT in the US. Representatives of the companies announced this on Wednesday at the Token2049 conference in Singapore. Speaking at the conference, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said that Rumble will launch a crypto wallet

Anchorage Digital plans to integrate Jupiter into the Porto dashboard, an institutional wallet. The initiative aims to expand the crypto bank’s services for clients from the traditional financial sector who work with DeFi. The integration of Jupiter into Porto should simplify cryptocurrency conversion and other DeFi processes directly in the wallet. Anchorage Digital stated that

Binance has launched a platform that will allow banks, brokers, and exchanges to work with cryptocurrencies under their own brand, without the need to build infrastructure from scratch. This is a white label solution, where Binance is responsible for the technological part — from trading and liquidity to custody and regulatory compliance, while client companies

SEC made it clear that it does not intend to take action against tokens related to decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) operating on blockchain. In a no-action letter published on Monday, the chief legal counsel of the corporate finance department of the SEC, Michael Siman, stated that he would not recommend the commission to initiat

On Monday, gold broke another all-time high — the price exceeded $3,800 for the first time in history. At its peak, the price reached $3,833, then rolled back slightly. The spot price settled at $3,829 (+1.9%), and December futures ended the day at $3,855.20, gaining 1.2%, according to CNBC. At the same time, t

This week, the US government is once again at risk of shutting down. If Congress does not approve the budget by midnight on Tuesday, part of the government agencies will simply stop working — and bitcoin will remain in limbo. In the event of a shutdown, the publication of economic statistics, including key reports, w