• Sep 09, 2024

What Is Fractal? What You Need to Know About the Buzzy Bitcoin Scaler

A hot and highly anticipated Bitcoin scaling network went live this week, although its code is almost indistinguishable from Bitcoin’s own layer-1 blockchain. What gives? On Sunday, Fractal Bitcoin announced the mainnet launch of its Bitcoin sidechain network. As a tribute, Fractal included in its genesis block the same message embedded in Bitcoin’s first block concerning bank bailouts—attributed to pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Despite a rocky start concerning some of its block mining...

• Sep 09, 2024

Michael Saylor Says Republicans Have More 'Progressive’ View on Crypto, Democrats ‘Drifting to the Middle’

MicroStrategy has purchased roughly $8.3 billion worth of bitcoin since August 2020.

• Sep 09, 2024

Crypto’s Venture Capital Gap

The lack of a central hub for crypto, compared to other tech movements, may be holding innovation back, says Azeem Khan.

• Sep 09, 2024

Kamala Harris Will 'Win' First Debate With Trump, Polymarket Traders Are Betting

Also, there are now prediction market contracts about other prediction market contracts.

• Sep 09, 2024

Crypto Fund Outflows Were Most Since March Last Week as Bitcoin ETFs Bled

Bitcoin lost over 8% of its value during the week, falling below $54,000 on Sept. 6 having traded around $59,000 on Sept. 2

• Sep 09, 2024

Restaking Protocol Ether.fi Selects Scroll as Layer-2 Network for Settlement

Scroll will be used to settle transactions on Ether.fi's Cash card.

• Sep 09, 2024

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: AVAX Surges 12.8%, Pushing Index Higher

The CoinDesk 20 jumped 4.2% over the weekend with all but one asset in the green.

• Sep 09, 2024

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500 gear up for recovery after steep losses

Inflation is back in focus for investors gauging pressures that could influence the size of Fed rate cuts.

• Sep 09, 2024

Ether.Fi to Launch Visa 'Cash' Card on Scroll Network

The credit card from Ether.fi will reward 3% cash-back and let users borrow money against their crypto collateral.

• Sep 09, 2024

2 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks With at Least 10% Dividend Yield

The markets have kicked off September with a reprise of the swoon we saw in early August, making it clear that investors are not quite as sanguine as the politicians would like in this election year. Bad news from the jobs reports is fueling fears that a recession could be on the way; the July numbers included a downward revision of more than 800,000 for the past year, and the August numbers missed expectations, coming in barely at maintenance level. The commodity markets are also down in recent