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A branch of the international grocery store chain Spar in Zug, Switzerland, now accepts Bitcoin for payments. The news broke after the Spar supermarket became visible on the BTC map, a community-driven project that shows businesses accepting cryptocurrencies.
Europe's central bank is pushing for the digital Euro, hoping to implement it by October this year.
In a Thursday announcement, the Panama City Council has officially unveiled that is has approved the acceptance of Bitcoin (BTC) and other digital assets for municipal services including tax, fees and permits.
The Dogecoin weekly chart is beginning to look eerily familiar. Crypto analyst Cantonese Cat, posting under the handle @cantonmeow, has published a three‑pane composite that reprises the technical cocktail seen just before the memecoin's 2020/2021 melt‑up.
TL;DR The U.S. Treasury plans to issue $31 trillion in debt during 2025, which could divert capital from the crypto market toward traditional assets. Higher yields on short-term bonds may reduce the appeal of cryptocurrencies as a high-risk investment option. Treasury debt tokenization has reached $5.
Editor's Note: This article has been updated to clarify that the Bitcoin ETF positions disclosed in Bank of America's 13F filings represent client holdings, not investments made by the firm itself. Bank of America has no direct exposure to Bitcoin ETFs.
Synthetix's sUSD stablecoin has plunged as low as $0.68, losing its dollar peg amid structural changes, sparking fears of a broader DeFi crisis and highlighting vulnerabilities in algorithmic stablecoin mechanisms. The post Stablecoin Sinks to $0.68: sUSD Loses Its Peg, Sparks Fears of SNX Death Spiral? appeared first on Cryptonews.
HashKey Capital has rolled out the first-ever XRP tracker fund in Asia, locking in a new investment option for professional buyers who want access to the Ripple token without needing to handle wallets or keys. The product, officially named the HashKey XRP Tracker Fund, was announced Friday and is already live.
SHIB will return to its bullish trend once the buyers push the price above the moving average lines and the positive momentum continues.
TL;DR Over $2.2 billion worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum options expire today, potentially increasing short-term market volatility. The “maximum pain” price for BTC is set at $82,000, and for ETH, it's $1,600. Despite global uncertainty, technical indicators reflect cautious optimism from investors, reinforcing a crypto outlook for the coming days.
Project 11 offers 1 BTC to anyone who cracks simplified Bitcoin encryption with a quantum computer—testing how close we are to the crypto apocalypse. The post Can Quantum Computing Really Kill Bitcoin? $85K Bounty Says It's Time to Find Out appeared first on Cryptonews.
US Treasury plans to issue over $31 trillion in bonds this year—around 109% of GDP and 144% of M2. This would be the highest recorded level of bond issuance in history.
Shiba Inu (SHIB) has registered notable price gains in the last 24 hours as it broke a critical resistance level. Given its upward trajectory, SHIB looks set to lose another zero in price as activity picks up on the crypto market.
XRP, the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is holding steady at around $2, despite a notable 25% drop in trading volume over the past 24 hours. According to CoinMarketCap data, XRP saw $2.46 billion in 24-hour volume, a significant figure, but down from recent highs.
The DeFi Education Fund is asking the SEC to establish a “safe harbor” for token issuers, allowing them a limited registration exemption while they develop decentralized networks. It's an idea Commissioner Hester Peirce first floated five years ago.
Stablecoin growth stagnation signals low liquidity. Are traders hesitant to deploy sidelined capital?
Coinbase is facing a new legal challenge as Oregon's Attorney General prepares to file a securities enforcement action against the cryptocurrency exchange. According to a blog post from Coinbase, the state is asserting “the same stale, repeatedly refuted theories” that the SEC previously dismissed with prejudice when it dropped its case against the company.
Crypto exchange Kraken has launched FX perpetual futures, expanding into traditional markets with round-the-clock trading for major forex pairs, the company said in a blog post Friday.
Bitcoin's (BTC) richest traders and investors are increasingly bullish on BTC despite facing downside risks from unfavorable macroeconomic factors, the latest onchain data suggests. Bitcoin whales absorbing 300% of new supply Bitcoin whales and sharks are now absorbing BTC at record rates—over 300% of yearly issuance—while exchanges are losing coins at a historic pace, according to Glassnode.
The popular alternative cryptocurrency Solana (SOL), which has emerged as one of the hottest assets on the market in recent months, may be on the verge of a painful downtrend against its main counterpart, Bitcoin. At least, this possibility is suggested by the intersection of moving averages on the SOL/BTC price chart.
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield is planning a lawsuit against crypto exchange Coinbase, alleging the company is selling unregistered securities to residents of the US state, after the United States Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) dropped its federal case against the exchange. According to Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, the lawsuit is an exact "copycat case" of SEC's 2023 lawsuit against the exchange, which the federal agency agreed to drop in February.
More price volatility lingers for the Official TRUMP token amid one of the heaviest token unlocks in history.
Aptos' proposal targets a 1% monthly staking yield decrease.
Spar's Bitcoin adoption in Switzerland could accelerate crypto integration in retail, influencing global payment trends and regulatory frameworks. The post Global retail giant Spar introduces Bitcoin payments via Lightning Network appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
