Tether’s competitors are exerting increasingly more pressure to push the world’s largest stablecoin issuer out of the crypto market, including political pressure aimed at reducing the firm’s leading market share. In the wider crypto markets, analysts are suggesting that most cryptocurrencies won’t see a widespread “altcoin season” rally in 2025, and only select tokens with…

BlackRock, a global investment firm with $11.5 trillion in assets under management, has added its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) to its model portfolio product, according to a Feb. 28 report from Bloomberg. Portfolios that allow for alternative assets will be able to put a 1%–2% allocation into the firm’s iShares Bitcoin ETF Trust (IBIT), potentially…

Bitcoin (BTC) dropped close to $78,000 on Feb. 28, but lower levels attracted solid buying by the bulls. CryptoQuant founder and CEO Ki Young Ju said in a post on X that selling after a 30% correction could be a “noob” mistake as Bitcoin rose to a new all-time high after falling 53% in 2021….

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, a globally recognized derivatives exchange, announced it will launch Solana (SOL) futures contracts on March 17, pending a review by United States financial regulators. According to the Feb. 28 announcement, market participants will have access to micro contracts of 25 SOL or standard contract sizes of 500 SOL, and…

Since reaching all-time highs on Jan. 20, Bitcoin’s price has been suppressed by hedge funds exploiting a low-risk yield trade involving spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and CME futures, signaling once again that institutional adoption of crypto assets isn’t a one-way street. This is the general takeaway of analyst Kyle Chassé, who dissected the latest Bitcoin…

Bitcoin (BTC) recrossed $82,000 into the Feb. 28 Wall Street open as analysis pointed to a March BTC price comeback. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView BTC price pushes past $82,000 on PCE relief Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD bouncing more than 5% from its latest multimonth lows of $78,197 on Bitstamp….

Rollbacks in blockchain explained In blockchain, a rollback refers to reversing its history to counter a disastrous event, such as big hacks threatening to disrupt the ecosystem, the discovery of critical protocol bugs or centralization risks of network integrity. The Bybit hack, which resulted in a staggering $1.46 billion loss, has triggered a demand regarding…