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Four years after going public, on May 19, 2025, Coinbase Global Inc. (ticker: COIN) was officially included in the S&P 500 Index. In response to this news, Coinbase's stock price surged by 10% in after-hours trading. Dan Dolev, Senior Payment Analyst at Mizuho, an American investment bank, remarked, "This is a sign of the times, indicating that crypto stocks are being integrated into the mainstream." The Surge of Crypto-Related Stocks: A Comprehensive Review of 45 Listed Crypto Companies Rece...

At the end of March 2025, the global financial market experienced a severe upheaval. On March 28, known as "Black Friday," the U.S. stock market saw the S&P 500 Index drop by 1.97%, the Nasdaq Index plunge by 2.7%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fall by 715 points, a decline of 1.69%. This downturn quickly spread to the crypto market, with Bitcoin (BTC) falling from $84,000 in the afternoon of March 29 to $81,565 by the morning of March 31. Ethereum (ETH) hit a recent low of $1,767, and...

If you're still holding out hope for an altcoin rally, the following data might shatter some illusions. According to data from a Dune dashboard created by @cgrogan, the number of crypto tokens has surged from over 3.4 million in 2022 to over 39 million in 2025. In 2024 and 2023, the crypto market created more than 10.09 million and 18.7 million new tokens, respectively. In stark contrast to the explosive growth of altcoins in this bull market, the number of crypto developers is not only faili...

Crypto ETFs are rapidly making inroads into the mainstream financial world, with institutional investors showing a significant increase in interest in Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs. According to reports from The Block and CryptoSlate, by Q4 2024, institutional interest in Ethereum spot ETFs had surged, with the proportion of institutional holdings jumping from 4.8% to 14.5%. Meanwhile, institutional investors held 25.4% of the managed assets (AUM) in Bitcoin spot ETFs, amounting to $26.8 bil...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is pivoting from regulation-by-enforcement to building an adaptive rulebook. At Washington’s FinTech Week, Chairman Paul Atkins vowed to roll out an “Innovation Exemption” that would let tokenized products reach market months faster. Simultaneously, the SEC has launched “Project Crypto,” a root-and-branch rewrite of securities rules meant to (1) settle once and for all which tokens are securities, (2) slash legal risk for start-ups, and (3) green-li...

A retrospective on crypto influencers' bold claims during the 2021 market top reveals stark contrasts—some eerily prescient, others hilariously off-mark. Ansem Original post: "If this market doesn’t nuke soon, my trading intuition is broken." Author’s take: "Timed it perfectly—almost scarily so." CZ Original post: "Don’t worry about competition. It will make your industry bigger, which in turn helps you. Embrace it!" Author’s take: "'No need to fear competition'—bro accidentally spoiled the p...

A Regulatory Bombshell On 28 August 2025, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) quietly dropped a bombshell: a new advisory on Foreign Board of Trade (FBOT) registration that gives offshore crypto exchanges a clear, lawful path back into the American market. After years of “regulation by enforcement,” Washington is signaling it wants the trading volume—and the traders—back.How We Got Here: From Exodus to InvitationThe Great Retreat Between 2022 and 2024, Binance, Bybit, OKX and...