The memecoin sector has added almost $17 billion in token valuations since the start of July, surging to $72 billion as of Thursday, up 29% from its $55 billion market cap on June 30. CoinMarketCap data showed that July has seen bigger trading volumes for memecoins than the previous month, with the sector’s 24-hour trading volume peaking…

The market cap of Tether’s USDt, the world’s largest stablecoin, has surpassed $160 billion for the first time, a “new mind-blowing milestone,” according to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino. In a Thursday post on X, Ardoino called the achievement a testament to USDt’s growing role as the digital dollar for “billions of people living in emerging markets and…

Tokenholders of US President Donald Trump-backed crypto project World Liberty Financial (WLFI) have voted to make them tradable, opening the door for the Trump-linked token to increase in value. The proposal submitted by the WLFI team on July 9 closed on Wednesday, with an “overwhelming” 99.94% in favor of the unlock. It will make the platform’s governance token…

BNB Chain is set to undergo a major infrastructure upgrade in the second half of 2025, aiming to support up to 5,000 decentralized exchange swaps per second and significantly enhance its onchain capacity. In its outlook for the remainder of 2025 and 2026, BNB Chain plans to increase its block gas limit from 100 million…

US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is coming out with its own “super app” after rebranding its Coinbase Wallet as “Base app.” Coinbase unveiled its new “everything app” on Wednesday with a video showing how it will combine a crypto wallet and trading and payment functions with social media and messaging. The new Base app was announced at the…

What are AI bots? AI bots are self-learning software that automates and continuously refines crypto cyberattacks, making them more dangerous than traditional hacking methods. At the heart of today’s AI-driven cybercrime are AI bots — self-learning software programs designed to process vast amounts of data, make independent decisions, and execute complex tasks without human intervention….

Telegram is opening up to decentralized finance (DeFi) on Ethereum with the mainnet launch of Tac, a third-party blockchain bridging apps on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to The Open Network (TON). Tac mainnet has launched with a mission to bring EVM decentralized apps (DApps) to TON and Telegram ecosystems, the team behind the network announced on…

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with $11.5 trillion in assets under management, reported a massive increase in cryptocurrency fund inflows in the second quarter of 2025. According to BlackRock’s quarterly earnings released on Tuesday, Q2 inflows into its crypto iShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs) surged 366% to $14 billion, up from $3 billion in the previous quarter. The crypto inflows…

The top Ethereum treasury companies scooped up at least $1.6 billion worth of Ether in the past month, while institutional buying surged over the past week as Ether rallied. Corporate Ether treasury companies accumulated more than 545,000 ETH over the past 30 days, according to recent purchase announcements. On Monday, BitMine Immersion Technologies, chaired by…

Bitcoin has become the world’s fifth-largest asset, overtaking Amazon by market capitalization. Bitcoin price rose to a new all-time high of $122,600 on Monday and has soared nearly 13% over the past week, as Cointelegraph reported. These gains allowed Bitcoin to surpass a $2.4 trillion market capitalization, overtaking Amazon’s $2.3 trillion, Silver’s $2.2 trillion and Alphabet’s…