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Ether (ETH), the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, recently sunk to its weakest price compared to bitcoin (BTC) since late 2020 in a trade war-fueled panic crash, but a relief bounce might be on the horizon."ETH looks to be trying to establish some bullish momentum and could be looking to finally make a recovery back above $3,000," LMAX strategist Joel Kruger said in a Tuesday morning report. "Sentiment towards the world’s second largest crypto asset has been back on the rise with many medium and longer-term players stepping in to take advantage of the recent dip," he added."ETH looks to be trying to establish some bullish momentum and could be looking to finally make a recovery back above $3,000,"...

When confronted by members of the Senate Banking Committee about concerns over the "debanking" trend plaguing the crypto industry, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said he's also worried about it and is already tweaking internal supervision policies at the Fed."I too, am troubled by the quantity of these reports," Powell said in routine testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. He offered that "one theory is that banks are just very risk averse" about money-laundering rules and aggressive supervision under which they're unwilling to welcome customers that may stretch their compliance demands."We're determined to take a fresh look at that," said Powell, who added that he'd been "struck by the growing number of cases of what appears to be...

The launch of Unichain, Uniswap’s long-awaited layer-2 network, has seen the price of the decentralized exchange’s governance token UNI rise by around 4.5% to around $9.7 and led to a significant increase in social activity and sentiment.UNI’s price benefitted from the launch of Unichain but failed to break through the $10 mark. It still outperformed bitcoin (BTC) in the short period since the launch of the layer-2 network, as the cryptocurrency is down around 0.3% in the past 24 hours.Sentiment surrounding the token has remained positive since the launch, with the number of posts on X rising by roughly 30% to over 1,400 with roughly 41% of those being positive and 48% having a neutral tone, data from TheTie shows.The...

When it comes to trading memecoins, time is money — and waiting on a centralized exchange (CEX) could cost you both. Take $TRUMP, for example. On Jan. 17, 2025, just before his inauguration, Donald Trump launched his memecoin on Solana, which surged past a $14.5 billion peak market cap on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) like Raydium and Orca within little more than 24 hours, making it the second largest memecoin behind Dogecoin at one point.By the time the major CEXs listed $TRUMP a day or two later — having cleared the usual bureaucratic rigmarole — the action was over. As such, for speculators, DEXs aren’t just faster; they’re more liquid, more volatile and frankly, more fun. In a market where fortunes...

The developers behind Lido, the largest staking service on Ethereum, have proposed revamping the staking platform with modular "vaults."The new framework would introduce stVaults, a customizable component designed to help Lido accommodate institutions and more complex staking strategies.Lido currently allows investors to pool their ether (ETH) together and "stake" their crypto — locking up their tokens with the network, helping to secure it in exchange for interest. Lido pioneered liquid staking: users get a receipt on their deposits called Lido staked ETH (stETH) that they can trade at any time. With liquid staking on Lido, entering and exiting staking positions became as simple as buying and selling stETH tokens.Lido V3's stVaults are “modular smart contracts designed to meet the diverse...