cryptoverse

Bitcoin miners are making hay while the sun shines. The business has been yanked out of the doldrums by the cryptocurrency's recent rally - and now mining companies are racing to lock in profits before bitcoin's "halving", when rewards…

XRP has become the unlikely white knight of crypto, thwarting its regulatory foes and dragging the market out of the doldrums. The price of XRP popped 78 per cent after a U.S. judge ruled on July 13 that issuer Ripple Labs' sales of the…

What would Satoshi make of it all? Bitcoin, the currency created to subvert the financial establishment, has shaken off weeks of sickness with the support of Wall Street's finest.The original crypto coin has leapt 20 per cent to…

It's a rough time to be an altcoin. Insecurity reigns.A slew of altcoins - a catch-all for most cryptocurrencies except bitcoin and ether - have been harpooned in lawsuits filed by U.S. regulators against exchanges Binance and Coinbase…

Things are heating up on the bitcoin blockchain. Daily transactions have rocketed to an all-time high of 682,000 this month, according to data from Glassnode, almost 40 per cent higher than the previous peak in 2017. Bitcoin's…

"Memecoins" - a hyper-speculative, ultra-volatile and somewhat peculiar class of crypto - are back in the spotlight after the latest digital token hit the market with stratospheric gains. Pepe, a coin inspired by an anthropomorphized frog…

Digital stablecoin tether is winning the race for the title of the crypto world's "least risky" asset.As a regional US banking crisis widens and a regulatory crackdown on crypto firms deepens, investments within the cryptosphere are moving…

Can inherently volatile cryptocurrencies become safe-havens? Apparently they can in some parts of the world, such as Argentina and Turkey, where soaring prices and tumbling local currencies have forced people to seek refuge in digital…

Even as bitcoin flies high, investors are keeping their options open, judging by a record race to derivatives.Open interest for bitcoin options and futures has spiked over the past month as fear has stalked global banking, hitting an…

Bullish bitcoin has been a surprise winner of the banking blowout. Yet investors aiming to amp up their bets face an ominous obstacle: a lack of liquidity that could trigger wild price swings.The price of the No.1 cryptocurrency has jumped…