As the end of July nears, analysts look ahead to August, a historically volatile month made more interesting this year by the US presidential election.  The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes in August 2023 lost 1.6% and 2.1%, respectively. The year prior, the S&P 500 lost just under 1% and the Nasdaq Composite slid

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Last month, the US Treasury Department finalized new tax rules for the crypto industry. We should embrace them. Crypto users, attracted to the digital asset space because of its libertarian values and independence from the traditional financial system, may chafe at this larger IRS crackdown as burdensome or troubling. However, the time for scams and

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Sygnum Bank said crypto spot and derivatives trading surged in the first half, propelling it to its first half-yearly profit. The Swiss lender plans to expand into the European Union and Hong Kong in the coming months. 00:34 Market Maker KeyRock Secures Swiss Anti-Money Laundering Clearance 08:15 Zuckerberg Says Meta Has ‘Exciting Roadmap’ With Threads

The Nasdaq and S&P 500 on Wednesday each suffered their worst declines since late 2022, but the price of bitcoin (BTC) mostly held up, remaining around the $66,000 level where it was a day earlier. The broad-market crypto benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index was also flat over the past 24 hours, with Solana’s SOL and Ripple’s

We’re headed to the Bitcoin Nashville conference this week and looking forward to a lot of deep discussions about building on the original blockchain – as well as hearing what former President Donald Trump has to say . (We understand the security will be quite tight.) I’ll be moderating a panel at a side event

Coinbase Asset Management is creating a tokenized money-market fund, according to four people familiar with the plan. Tokenization of real-world assets is a hot corner of crypto. BlackRock’s tokenized U.S. Treasuries fund quickly grabbed $500 million of assets this year. 06:22 Philippines Taps Blockchain 04:56 BlackRock CEO Predicts Tokenization Is the Future of Markets 00:48

Bitstamp’s action follows reports by creditors receiving assets on Kraken on Wednesday. The prices of bitcoin and bitcoin cash declined after the news. 02:26 DCG Reaches In-Principle Deal With Genesis Creditors 02:06 Crypto Custodian Prime Trust Files for Bankruptcy 04:58 Celsius Can Start Converting Altcoins to Bitcoin, Ether as of July 1, Judge Says 05:48

Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming is poised to announce legislation that could establish Bitcoin as a mainstream financial asset in the United States. At the upcoming Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, where former President Donald Trump is also set to speak, Lummis aims to announce a bill requiring the Federal Reserve to hold Bitcoin