Day: 21 August 2025

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has joined the growing list of crypto executives forecasting Bitcoin to hit $1 million by 2030, even as the cryptocurrency struggles to hold recent highs. Speaking on the Cheeky Pint podcast with Stripe co-founder John Collison, Armstrong said his outlook is shaped by regulatory clarity beginning ...

Bitcoin’s record-breaking rally is losing momentum as new capital inflows slow, according to on-chain analytics firm Glassnode. After reaching an all-time high of $124,400 last week, the cryptocurrency has fallen 9.2 per cent to $112,900, with weaker realized cap growth pointing to fading demand at elevated levels. Glassnode data shows ...

Cross-chain bridge Wormhole is preparing to challenge LayerZero’s $110 million bid for decentralized finance protocol Stargate, arguing the current offer undervalues the platform and fails to serve the community’s best interests. In a post on Stargate’s governance forum Wednesday, the Wormhole Foundation said it intends to submit a “meaningfully higher” ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 21st August 2025, Chainwire

World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance venture backed by the Trump family, has minted more than $200 million worth of its USD1 stablecoin just hours after a top U.S. central banker publicly endorsed the potential of stablecoins. The platform disclosed on X Thursday that it added $205 million USD1 to ...

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins has taken a strikingly different stance from his predecessor, declaring that only a small number of cryptocurrencies should be treated as securities. Speaking at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2025, Atkins argued that a token’s classification depends largely on how it is ...

Mantra has introduced a new governance proposal that would phase out its ERC-20 OM token on Ethereum and consolidate the asset entirely on Mantra Chain. The plan, unveiled on August 20 via X, sets January 15, 2026, as the deadline for the complete deprecation of ERC-20 OM. The migration roadmap ...

Kanye West’s latest crypto venture, the YZY token on Solana, soared to a $3 billion market capitalization within 40 minutes of its launch on Thursday, before plunging to nearly a third of that value as questions about insider activity rattled investors. The rapper, who now officially goes by Ye, unveiled ...

U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller has reassured policymakers and private banks that cryptocurrency payments and decentralized finance (DeFi) technologies pose no threat to the traditional financial system. Speaking at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2025 on Wednesday, Waller said crypto transactions are “simply new technology” for transferring value and recording ...