Trump signs the Executive order allowing investment in crypto, and more digital asssets (Photo by Ron Sachs – Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images I was waiting for this moment when Trump signed the order to allow 401(k)s to invest in crypto, private equity, and real estate. Why? In Q1 2025 Americans were holding approximately $8.7 trillion
TLDR: ED freezes ₹42.8 crore in assets tied to Chirag Tomar’s $20M crypto phishing fraud. Tomar’s scheme spoofed Coinbase to steal victims’ credentials and drain wallets. Provisional Attachment Order covers 18 properties and multiple bank accounts. Case highlights growing cross-border coordination in crypto crime enforcement. India’s Enforcement Directorate just froze assets worth ₹42.8 crore in
As crypto’s reputation undergoes a cautious rehabilitation in the court of public opinion, venture capital firms are funding a new wave of blockchain activity on college campuses. A group of specialist digital-asset investors — including Collab+Currency, Consensys Mesh, Artemis and Hydra Ventures — has pooled together roughly 600 Ether, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency and widely
Financial services titan JPMorgan is collaborating with the top US-based crypto exchange platform Coinbase to link bank accounts with crypto wallets. According to a new press release, the banking giant is partnering with Coinbase to launch a direct bank-to-wallet connection for customers, also allowing for the use of Chase credit cards on the crypto exchange.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrives at the Sun Valley Lodge for the 2025 Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference on July 8, 2025. Photo Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The annual Allen & Company conference, often dubbed the “summer camp for billionaires,” is underway in the resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho. Over the next few days,
MANHATTAN — U.S. President Donald Trump again touted his crypto bona fides at a conference Thursday, telling an audience it was an “honor” to be considered a crypto president. Speaking in a 90-second recorded video at Coinbase’s (COIN) State of Crypto Summit (no relation to the CoinDesk newsletter with the same name), Trump reiterated comments
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Two Democratic plans in Springfield would begin some of the first regulations to be put on the cryptocurrency industry. FILE – Bitcoin logos are displayed at the Inside Bitcoins conference and trade show on April 7, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) Mark Lennihan It would start by requiring
Travis Kling of Ikigai Asset Management shared his May highlights for bitcoin and broader crypto ecosystem, underscoring the remarkable scale of institutional adoption throughout the month. May was a blockbuster month for the crypto sector, headlined by unprecedented institutional investment, key legal developments, and heightened adoption by both private and public entities. Bitcoin reached new
This month, approximately $529K in bitcoin hit the digital wallet of Miami-based developers Rilea Group and Cipres. In exchange, they handed over the keys to a luxury condo unit at their under-construction The Rider Residences near the Wynwood neighborhood. It was the group’s first direct wallet-to-wallet cryptocurrency transaction and among the few instances in which bitcoin has been used to trade real