LAPTOP collapsed 99.2% after launch, briefly hitting a $560 million market cap before falling near $1.61. Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP meme coin ($LAPTOP) began trading on the Base network and almost immediately fell 99.2% from an intraday high of $199.51 within hours of launch. The laptop entered public view in October 2020, when the New…
The Hyperliquid Policy Center has asked a federal court to dismiss CME Group’s lawsuit against the CFTC, arguing that the derivatives exchange lacks standing and cannot rely on the Commodity Exchange Act provisions cited in its complaint. Summary HPC says CME has not shown a competitive injury caused by the CFTC’s decision. The group argues…
The US Senate will hold a cloture vote on September 15 on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, or CLARITY Act. This procedural vote, needing 60 votes to pass, is seen as a key moment for crypto markets, especially within the XRP Ripple community. A successful vote could enable a lasting regulatory framework for digital…
ZEC’s smaller market cap and higher volatility than BTC make options compelling for risk management and potentially attractive for premium income. Zcash has been on an absolute tear. The privacy-focused cryptocurrency rose over 142% in the past month alone and reached $1,236. Grayscale Head of Research Zach Pandl believes that its smaller market capitalization…
Corn has launched a private members club for digital asset holders after closing its Bitcoin layer-2 network, as a third investment from Polychain Capital has taken its total funding to $19 million. Summary Corn’s former Bitcoin layer 2 ceased operations on June 30 after holding around $1 billion at its peak. Polychain has invested three…
In Bitcoin ETF news, Canary Capital’s Canary Staked TRX ETF began trading on Cboe on September 9 under the ticker TRXS, becoming the first US-listed exchange-traded fund to combine direct exposure to TRON’s native token with built-in staking rewards. The product provides a brokerage-based route to TRX without requiring investors to hold the token directly…
The data suggests recent altcoin strength may be concentrated in a few tokens rather than spread across the broader market. A crypto trader has challenged the idea that altcoins are broadly outperforming Bitcoin after comparing prices on August 22 and September 9, when BTC was near the same level on both dates. The comparison…
Federal authorities charged two Jacksonville brothers with allegedly operating a darknet narcotics vendor whose counterfeit pills were connected to at least 12 overdoses, including three deaths. Summary U.S. prosecutors charged two Florida brothers with allegedly distributing nitazene-laced counterfeit pills through darknet markets. Investigators traced Bitcoin withdrawals from three darknet marketplaces toward accounts associated with Stanislav…
VVV has rocketed the most over the past 24 hours, jumping by more than 50%. LIT, ATOM, and DOT follow suit. In what is expected to be a highly volatile second part of the week, bitcoin’s price dipped to $77,600 yesterday after it was rejected at over $80,000 on Monday before it rebounded to…
Polkadot’s community has opened a governance vote on a native decentralized stablecoin called dotUSD, with a proposal to make the dollar-pegged asset the network’s primary stable-value instrument and eventually back it mainly with DOT. Summary Polkadot OpenGov is voting on a proposal to create dotUSD as the network’s native decentralized stablecoin. The plan calls for…
