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Dao5, a somewhat new early-stage investment fund, has raised $222 million to bring their total assets under management to $550 million following their first $125 million raise in 2022.

Bitcoin has risen above $96,000 for the first time since February with it seemingly breaking upwards after after a week long sideway at $95k.

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Tether and Bitfinex plan a public listing on the stock market according to some recent filing with the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC).

Bankera, an ICO that raised $100 million in 2017 to build a blockchain bank, is now worth almost zero in crypto markets with the BNK token seeing just $400 in trading volumes.

Bitcoin has risen above $95,000 for the first time in what feels like years, but since last week and before it, since February when it first crashed to it from a high of $110,000.

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Bitcoin has been gaining for much of the week, with it crossing $94,000 earlier today while stock futures suggest up another 2.6%.

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The spring chaos might be over for now with stocks chill at nearly 2% green for Nasdaq while bitcoin is kinda mooning again, rising above $85,000 at one point earlier today.

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"It's not a trade war, but a war on yields," says Eric Demuth, the co-founder of BitPanda, a German crypto and stock exchange.

Banque Delubac & Cie, a family owned French bank established in 1924, has partnered with a new decentralized exchange called DevvDigital.

Bitcoin quickly bounced from $75k to $80k in minutes while Nasdaq turned green from a -4% fall after rumors of a pause on tariffs.

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Global stocks are crashing for the third day in a row with Japan's Nikkei and China's Shcomp down 8% today in one of the worst performance in global markets, perhaps in history.

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The Nasdaq stock crash has wiped out all gains since 2021 with this now reaching the March 2020 pandemic panic levels.

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South Korea, Japan, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Europe and Tunisia. These are the orange counties. China and its surroundings are very much red, as well as for some reason Switzerland.

The index of the 2000 biggest US companies, Russels 2000, is down 6% today while the Nasdaq stock index is down 4.5%.

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The world is waiting for Europe to find out at 10PM its time that the 1930s are back, as is protectionism, with US starting a global trade war.

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Bitcoin is slightly green for the day amid a global stock rout a markets wait for Trump's April fools show on Wednesday.

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MicroStrategy has upped the ante, buying $1.92 billion worth of bitcoin during the past seven days with Michael Saylor, its CEO, stating:

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Is the ethereum base chain in competition with second layer networks or are L2s complementary?

Nasdaq is deep in red again, down 2.7% as the US president Donald Trump goes deeper into what has to be called the allies trade war.

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Stocks are largely unmoved today despite Donald Trump pre-empting his own hyped up April 2nd announcement by revealing 25% tariffs on all car imports from anywhere in the world.

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Americans have $62 trillion in liabilities to non-Americans, and around $36 trillion in assets, meaning non-Americans have invested $24.15 trillion more in US than vice versa.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, held a a high level meeting on "strategic investments in Bitcoin mining and the tokenization of real-world assets," according to a local paper.

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The board of GameStop (GME) has unanimously approved an update to its investment policy to add Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset, the company said in a statement.

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Movement, a new kid on the block with a market cap of $1.3 billion launched just this December, has landed on some hot waters after a Binance investigation regarding a market maker.

Cronos (CRO) rose by more than 28% in the past 24 hours, gaining 33% over the week, after announcing a partnership with Trump Media to launch crypto ETFs.

World Liberty Financial Inc. (“WLFI”), a somewhat defi platform connected to the Trump family, is launching USD1 on ethereum and the Binance Smart Chain.

MicroStrategy now holds more than 500,000 bitcoin, or 2.3% of the entire supply, bought at $34 billion and now worth $44 billion.

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Bitcoin has risen above $88,000 with stock markets opening green as some Trump officials leak that the tariffs might not be as bad as thought.

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"We're close to finding a clear use-case for Bitcoin with this one," says one commentator on a somewhat novel use of bitcoin's proof of work.

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The Turkish Lira has seen its biggest one day fall yet, down more than 10% on Wednesday from 2.7 cent to the dollar, to 2.5 cent with it currently trading at just below 2.6 cents.

Security Tokens (STOs) were pretty much non existent while Gary Gensler was chair of the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), but with a new administration that seems to be changing.

Affin Bank, one of the biggest in Malaysia with $25 billion in assets, has partnered with Halogen Capital to distribute the Halogen Shariah Defensive Bitcoin Fund.

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"The Fed would be MUCH better off CUTTING RATES as U.S.Tariffs start to transition (ease!) their way into the economy."

Milojko Spajic, a former credit analyst at Goldman Sachs and the current Prime Minister of Montenegro, holds bitcoin, ethereum, BNB, USDt and other cryptos.

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Ethereum was deflationary not long ago, just last year. Now, its supply is increasing at almost the same levels as bitcoin.

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A somewhat dead coin, EOS, rose 30% overnight at one point to enter the top 100 once again. Lido is up 14%, as are many other coins and tokens, including Ripple gaining 13%.

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Bitcoin is seeing some green for the day amid many moving factors, including the fact that Trump has been quiet about tariffs for a whole week.

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The nasdaq stock index is down 2% again as markets await the Fed conference tomorrow and the outcome of a phone call between US president Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

The Bank of Korea (BOK) is to begin a pilot for their own central bank digital currency (CBDC) in April according to local papers.

Smart Contract reforming app, Halliday, raised $20M in Series A funding led by a16z crypto, with participation from the Avalanche Blizzard Fund.

Nothing says oligarchy like the plain black and white legal discrimination based on wealth that the Russian central bank has published as a new regulatory framework.

BX Digital, a subsidiary of Boerse Stuttgart,  has been granted a license for a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) trading facility that connects to their central bank.

The chaos of the past three months and especially for the past two weeks, may have some method to it as speculation takes hold about a potential re-writing of the global trading system.

After a terrible quarter, the markets are quiet for the day as chatter increases about bears running out of steam, in both crypto and tradfi.

Bitcoin may have passed the tipping point in America, but in Canada it's just about getting there according to a survey by the Bank of Canada, their central bank.

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BlackRock's bitcoin ETF has seen its first inflow for the past six days with it buying $45.7 million after endless red since March the 6th.

The Nasdaq stock index is seeing one of the worst quarter in years with it down another 2% today without respite.

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Futures point to down another 1.6% for QQQ today as the Economist is the latest to say Trump's honeymoon is over, or as they put it, the president and reality are drifting apart.

MicroStrategy has announced a new $21 billion stocks for bitcoin program as it continues to suck in tradfi demand.

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Another 2.6% dive in the Nasdaq index was followed by another flop in the White House as Trump postpones tariffs for another two weeks.

"Because there is a fixed supply of BTC, there is a strategic advantage to being among the first nations to create a strategic bitcoin reserve."

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A very red week to end February is now more mixed as Friday saw inflows of $94 million, compared to outflows of $1.1 billion the Wednesday prior.

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Bitcoin recovers amid a fairly chaotic week that sees a clash between crypto related positive policy developments and uncertainty in the wider economy.

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The Office of the President has put out a statement to remove a last minute rule by the Biden administration that expanded the definition of brokers to include defi platforms.

The Federal Reserve Banks Atlanta branch indicates that the first quarter under Donald Trump has contracted by as much as 2.8%.

The German stock index, DAX, is up 2.7% as speculation hits the market that the new likely chancellor, Friedrich Merz, may unveil a €1 trillion bazooka for defence and infrastructure spending.

Much drama on TV, much substance outside it, as the great powers in Europe and across the Atlantic hone the details on imposing peace in the continent.

After recking stocks, and crypto, with yet another intervention at the top of the range, president Donald Trump has now delivered the boost at the bottom.

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From $420 in November to $260 now for MSTR is not even the worst for crypto stocks as we near the end of a very red quarter.

The German stock index, DAX, is up more than 10% in the past eight weeks while the British FTSE100 broke out of an eight months long range to rise from 8,200 to above 8,700.

Bitcoin is holding on to circa $87,000 after briefly diving further on Wednesday to a low of $82,000 with ethereum down currently to $2,340.

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Nasdaq has dived another 1.7% on red season primarily due to the new president Donald Trump bringing back his dumb tariffs on Canada while cosying up to basket case Russia.

Hackers are embedding crypto stealing code in GitHub to fool coders into downloading malwared templates for their projects.

A 41-metre superyacht was bought in crypto for 2027 delivery the broker, Denison Yachting, said in one of the first sale of its kind.

ByBit has covered the circa $1.5 billion hack, with it now back to full reserves according to its CEO Ben Zhou who said.

Bitcoin has fallen below $90,000 for the first time since reaching this level in November, with it diving to $86,700 before somewhat recovering to $89,000.

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The MicroStrategy rebranded Strategy has closed a $2 billion bond selling round on Friday, the company said.

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A new startup, HashPower, is raising $50 million in the growing field of DePin as new actors show on stage.

Invity, a subsidiary of Trezor owning Satoshi Labs, has launched a gamified Crypto Academy, Trustnodes is told.

SEC replaces the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit with a broader Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit (CETU)

Walmart, a proxy for the economy, has beaten expectations, but tradfi games in speculative 'guidance' have its stock in the red anyway.

Ethereum has attracted some small inflows for the past two days, $19 million on Wednesday and $4.6 million on Tuesday.

Bitcoin is somewhat recovering from a brief dip to $93,000, currently trading at $96,000, but the currency has been lagging Nasdaq.

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Inflation has come slightly above expectations for January at 3%, when analysts were hoping it stays still at 2.9%, same as for December.

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Traders have been wondering where some sell pressure has been coming from amid mass buying by US ETFs and MicroStrategy. Binance.

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The bankrupt FTX exchange starts distribution next week according to John J. Ray III.

Non-farm payrolls for January came in at +143,000 vs the expected +170,000, sending the dollar index into a typical yoyo.

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Franklin Templeton has updated their filing for an ethereum and bitcoin ETF to give the ticker of EZPZ in the final steps before listing.

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The Bank of England lowered its interest rates on Thursday to 4.5% from 4.75% while inflation is higher than US at 3.2% vs 2.9%.

The new meets the old in Washington DC as Silicon Valley's Elon Musk takes over 1950s payment systems at the Treasury.

Ethereum is getting slightly bigger blocks as stakers have signaled to increase capacity from 30 million gas units to 36 million per block.

The US spot ethereum ETFs have bought $307 million worth of ethereum on Tuesday, a near record level since ETF trading began in July.

What we've seen from Trump so far indicates TV chaos, but not on substance, so risks of any derailment may have decreased.

US ETFs bought $83.6 million worth of ethereum during trading hours on Monday after it plunged.

A movement is seemingly taking hold on Reddit that aims to protest across America, in all 50 states, against project 2025.

Bitcoin has shot up above $98,000 on news that Trump is to pause his recently allowed tariffs on allies.

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Nationalism has taken hold of the United States which has opened the firing shot in what has to be called the allies trade war.

Bitcoin is down by about 10% since Friday, hitting a low of $92,000 overnight as Asia trading began with it somewhat recovering to $95k.

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Scottie Pippen, Famous former NBA player and friend of Michael Jordan, has tweeted an ethereum in a warmode meme.

Ethereum spiked earlier today, rising by about 3% in an hour as the market digested news of the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) approving a new combined bitcoin and ethereum ETF by Bitwise.

Bitcoin is up about 3% following the speech by Fed's chair Jerome Powell who said "banks are perfectly able to serve crypto customers."

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The parent company of Donald Trump's Truth Social, Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (DJT), is diversifying its $750 million reserve holdings into bitcoin and other cryptos.

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Aleš Michl, the governor of Czechia's  central bank, is presenting a plan to the board to diversify its reserves into bitcoin.

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"Ethereum presents a tactical trade," says 10x Research, a new startup focused on crypto. That's due to policy support by the new Trump administration which "is delivering on his crypto promises."

Bitcoin has been holding up well amid a mini-panic in AI stocks, with it back to trading at $102k after a brief dip to $98k.

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Bitcoin started moving down overnight as Donald Trump brashly announced he'd put 25% tariffs on all imports from Colombia with immediate effect.

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Central Banker v Brian Armstrong go head to head on why hold bitcoin in reserves at Davos earlier this week.

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After a very volatile week that saw bitcoin move 10% daily with record volumes, though in the same range, the currency seems calmer today at $105k.

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on establishing a Presidential crypto working group and on evaluating a crypto national reserve. The order says...

Trump has told the world he will make America the world capital of AI and crypto in an address at the gathering in Davos.