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The performance of bitcoin (BTC) mining stocks was mixed in the first two weeks of April, with pure play operators outperforming those with exposure to high-performance computing (HPC), JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report Wednesday. Only MARA Holdings (MARA) and CleanSpark (CLSK) outperformed the largest cryptocurrency during the period, while miners with exposure to HPC, which is used in applications including AI, such as Bitdeer (BTDR), TeraWulf (WULF), IREN (IREN) and Riot Platforms (RIOT) underperformed. The bank noted that March was a good month for the U.S.-listed miners.

Global markets are again under pressure following an escalation in U.S.–China trade tensions, with investors fleeing to havens and tech stocks taking a beating. Gold surged over 2% on Wednesday to top $3,300 per ounce and set a new record high. The dollar weakened further, and Nasdaq futures pointed to a rough day ahead for Wall Street. On Tuesday, the White House announced tariffs of up to 245% on Chinese imports in response to China’s retaliatory measures and bans on exports of key strategic materials, including rare earth elements, gallium...

Aiming to perhaps replicated Strategy's bitcoin (BTC) playbook, except with solana (SOL), fintech commercial real estate platform Janover (JNVR) has built a SOL stack worth roughly $21 million and seen its share price rise nearly 20-fold in less than a month. The company today purchased another 80,567 SOL tokens valued at approximately $10.5 million, bringing its total holdings to 163,651. Janover is positioning itself as the first publicly-traded U.S. company with a treasury strategy centered around Solana's SOL. The pivot came after a team of former executives of crypto exchange...

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been criticized this week for including privacy token Zcash (ZEC) among those cryptos up for a vote to be delisted from the exchange. Zcash, which has a $500 million market cap, appeared on the ballot alongside FTX's FTT token and data security platform JASMY. Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox tagged Binance CEO Richard Teng in a tweet on Tuesday: "You’re considering delisting Zcash!? What kind of world are you creating? Do you want your children to grow up in peace and prosperity, or a Black Mirror episode?"...

While U.S. issuers are still waiting for the approval of a spot Solana (SOL) exchange-traded fund (ETF), Canadian investors will be able to trade such funds on the Toronto Stock Exchange starting Wednesday. Four asset managers are set to bring their product to the market, including Purpose, Evolve, CI and 3iQ, all of which will have staking abilities as well, according to a TD Cowen note shared by ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. Consensus 2025 takes place in Toronto May 14-16. Click here for tickets. The funds were approved by the...

Tokens associated with artificial intelligence (AI) fared worse than the biggest cryptocurrencies over the past 24 hours. The relative weakness comes amid unusual activity in put options tied to shares of Nvidia (NVDA), the chipmaker that on Monday said it will will start building its AI supercomputers in the U.S. While bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency by market value, added 0.6% over 24 hours to $85,500, TAO, the token of blockchain-based machine learning network Bittensor, traded 3.6% lower at $239 and decentralized GPU rendering platform Render Network's RNDR token was...

The crypto lending market is still a shadow of its former size preceding the brutal 2022-2023 crypto winter, but beneath the surface, signs of recovery are emerging, especially in the decentralized corner of the space, digital asset investment firm Galaxy Research said in a report on Monday. The total crypto lending market stood at $36.5 billion at the end of 2024, including loans backed by crypto-collateralized stablecoins, according to the report. That's a steep decline from the $64.4 billion peak seen at the height of the 2021 bull run when...

'Sell bonds, buy bitcoin,' proclaimed a popular social media account last week, echoing the sentiments of many crypto advocates who believe that tariff-induced volatility in the U.S. Treasury market – a cornerstone of global finance – has revealed the fragility of the dollar-denominated monetary system. However, institutions are not buying into this narrative. As of Monday, the 11 U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs, considered a proxy for institutional activity, were on track to register the second-highest cumulative monthly outflow of over $800 million, according to data source SoSoValue.

Crypto exchanges Binance and KuCoin temporarily suspended withdrawals amid reported issues with their data center provider Amazon Web Services (AWS). "We are aware of an issue impacting some services on the #Binance platform due to a temporary network interruption in the AWS data center," Binance said in an X post. "Some orders are still successful, but some are failing. If users failed, they may keep retrying." Binance opened withdrawals just over five minutes after the issue was first reported. Users are still reportedly facing issues placing trades on both Binance...