Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The ‘it’s inflation, stupid’ thesis is strong. As MainFT highlighted in a big piece days before the vote and again on election day. inflation was clearly having a major effect on Kamala Harris’s
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Infinex has announced plans to list the top 500 crypto assets and release an updated version of its platform in early 2025. In an interview at Near’s Redacted conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Infinex founder Kain Warwick told Cointelegraph editor Andrew Fenton about the DeFi platform’s plans to list the top 500
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Collapsed crypto exchange FTX is suing Binance and its former chief executive Changpeng Zhao for $1.8bn, over an allegedly “fraudulent” share deal. The dispute relates to a July 2021 deal in which Binance, Zhao and
Alameda Research filed a lawsuit against Aleksandr Ivanov, founder of Waves, as part of its ongoing legal strategy to recover crypto assets. The trading arm of the bankrupt FTX exchange is aiming to recoup at least $90 million of digital assets from Waves, according to a Nov. 11 court filing. In March 2022, Alameda Research
The DeltaPrime protocol has been exploited for $4.8 million worth of digital assets, adding to the growing number of crypto hacks in 2024, which could be set to surpass the value stolen in 2023. DeltaPrime, a decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity protocol, was exploited for $4.8 million worth of Arbitrum (ARB) and Avalanche (AVAX) tokens. The
The FTX bankruptcy estate continues to pursue lawsuits against cryptocurrency companies as part of its ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. A group of firms involved in the FTX bankruptcy proceedings initiated a lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Binance, seeking to recover $1.8 billion, according to a complaint filed on Nov. 10. In the filing, the plaintiffs argued that
Supported by a new all-time high (ATH) market price above $81,000, the total market capitalization of Bitcoin crossed $1.6 trillion for the first time since its launch in 2009. On Nov. 11, Bitcoin (BTC) reached a market capitalization of $1.62 trillion amid the ongoing bull market, concurrently bringing up the global crypto market cap to
Cryptocurrency analytics platform Nansen is expanding its capabilities beyond Ethereum by moving into Bitcoin through a partnership with the Bitcoin layer-2 (L2) network, Bitlayer. Nansen is debuting Bitcoin (BTC) analytics services by delivering blockchain data analytics to Bitlayer, an L2 network supporting smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps) on Bitcoin. As the first Bitcoin L2
Bitcoin is breaking records as a weekend BTC price surge delivers almost $82,000 to start the week. Bitcoin traders see BTC price upside continuing despite some concerns that a retracement may reach frightening proportions. Macroeconomic data releases continue to come thick and fast as United States presidential election fever gives way to the ongoing inflation
Two former executives at major American investment management firms, Millennium Management and Pacific Investment Management Company (Pimco), are reentering the crypto space amid a major market rally. Millennium’s ex-portfolio manager Benoit Bosc and Pimco’s former executive vice president Michael Bressler left their posts to set up a new crypto consultancy firm, x2B, Bloomberg reported on
Bitcoin will gain political importance following Donald Trump and the Republicans’ United States election wins — and investors who don’t own the cryptocurrency can no longer ignore it, according to the New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG). “While some investors have allocated to Bitcoin, the most common allocation for investors is still zero. There are
The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) token rose more than 10% as ENS Labs announced details of its new Ethereum layer-2 solution “Namechain.” Namechain is a purpose-built Ethereum layer-2 solution aimed at scaling blockchain identity by making it easier to register names at reduced costs via rollups, ENS Labs executives said in a presentation at the
As Lehman Brothers hurtled towards bankruptcy in September 2008, the executives at the world’s largest derivatives exchange found themselves in a race against time: find a new home for the failed bank’s trading book or face more cascading chaos. In an early harbinger of a new era for markets, the winner of the bidding war
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thefts of packs of butter have highlighted the impact of skyrocketing inflation on Russia’s war economy. President Vladimir Putin’s splurge on arms and ammunition has helped Moscow to maintain an advantage on the battlefield in
Crypto traders betting on a market drop were hit with major liquidations as Bitcoin surged to an all-time high above $81,000, causing widespread losses in short positions. CoinGlass data showed that in the last 12 hours, about $180 million in short positions were liquidated across the crypto market. Bitcoin (BTC) has continued to rally in
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Deutsche Bank has fired 111 senior managers in its retail and private wealth unit as the division implements deep cost cuts to meet stretching 2025 targets. The Frankfurt-based bank is seeking to reduce the unit’s
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Years ago, a well-known Silicon Valley billionaire told me something I’ll never forget: “China is an autocracy, Europe is a technocracy and America is a company.” That statement has never felt truer to
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The re-election of Donald Trump as president of the US marks a new era in US and global politics. Eight years ago, his victory might have been viewed as an anomaly. This time,
Elon Musk’s role in delivering the US presidency for Donald Trump has given the world’s richest man a unique opportunity to reshape the federal government by placing his acolytes and allies inside the incoming administration. The billionaire’s influence continues after the election, with him joining Trump during a call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine,
Lingering consumer anger over high prices is hurting governments in advanced economies even though inflation is subsiding to normal levels, as a once-in-a-generation surge in costs leaves a toxic legacy for incumbent politicians. Discontent over the economy was a key motivator for Republican voters in this week’s US election, exit polling suggested — contributing to
Near Protocol has unveiled a crosschain AI agent in alpha that can launch memecoins in seconds and search the web to buy products for fiat. Additional functionality is coming soon that is expected to enable users to book flights or order takeaway food on Web2 sites. The NEAR.AI Assistant was launched by co-founder Illia Polusukhin
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