Coin Prices

BNB

$230.29

-0.16%

XRP

$0.623839

2.26%

OKB

$56.77

-0.79%

EOS

$0.737835

1.45%

NEO

$11.80

-0.42%

Pepe

$0.00000155

-3.78%

Bonk

$0.00000791

17.28%

NEM

$0.03785825

-1.41%

WAX

$0.065245

1.98%

IOST

$0.00961808

0.05%

Kin

$0.00002101

1.82%

OST

$0.00031541

-1.12%
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Mat Di Salvo

Mat Di Salvo

Mathew is a Colombia-based journalist who writes for Decrypt with a focus on regulation, privacy, Latin America's exploding crypto market and other topics. He has reported on the crypto space since 2018 for numerous publications. Before basing himself in Latin America, Mathew was a reporter in the UK for a news agency and local papers.
Disclosure: No significant crypto holdings.

Stories by Mat Di Salvo

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    BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Receives $100,000 in Seed Funding

    BlackRock has received funding from a seed investor for its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to a filing yesterday.  The world’s largest fund manager received $100,000 in capital from the investor who bought shares from the iShares Bitcoin Trust on October 27, the filing shows.  A seed capital investor initially funds an ETF to get it off the ground and trading on a stock exchange.  BlackRock is the biggest and most prestigious Wall Street firm that has applied to the U.S. Securitie...

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  • Pepe is the latest meme coin taking the crypto market by storm. Image: Pepecoin/Twitter

    Meme Coin Trading in Full Frenzy as Pepe Pops 26% to Hit $666M Market Cap

    Meme coin Pepe (PEPE) is leading the altcoin rally today and is up more than 26% in the past day, according to CoinGecko. The digital token, which runs on the Ethereum network, is currently trading for $0.00000159. Over the past seven days, it has shot up 45%. Launched in April, the asset is based on the Internet meme of Pepe the Frog and is extremely volatile. It grabbed the crypto community's attention when one investor turned $250 in PEPE tokens into $1.02 million. Like all meme coins—cryptoc...

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    2 min read
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    BONK Won't Stop: Solana Meme Coin Sets Another All-Time High

    Meme coin mania isn't slowing down. Solana's dog-themed token BONK just hit a new all-time high overnight at $0.00000669. CoinGecko data shows that the cryptocurrency is now trading for just shy of that at $0.00000653—a 24-hour rise of 33%. Even more impressive is its surge over the month: The asset has continued to boom and is now up about 762%. The token was launched in December 2022, but experienced a renewed surge in interest—and price—last month. This is at least partly down to the piqued i...

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    3 min read
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    Bitcoin Funds Bloated With Cash as Investors Rush In

    Serious investors continued to flood the market and Bitcoin funds with cash last week—with the biggest 10-week inflows since the height of the 2021 bull run, according to a report today.  Digital asset fund manager CoinShares said in a Monday report that money going into crypto investment products last week hit $176 million, reaching a 10-week total of $1.76 billion. Total assets under management is up 107% this year and stands at $46.2 billion—47% below the all-time high of $86.6 billion in 202...

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    2 min read
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  • Shiba Inu and Dogecoin are popular cryptocurrencies named after dogs. Image: Shutterstock.

    Ethereum, Dogecoin and Bitcoin Cash Are Benefiting From BTC's Rally

    Bitcoin's surge may be getting the headlines, but a number of altcoins like Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) are also experiencing big gains. Dogecoin, the biggest meme coin in existence and the 10th largest digital asset by market cap, was last week's biggest gainer and is still gaining today: over the past 24 hours, it's closing in on a 5% gain and is trading hands for $0.08. Meme coin Shiba Inu has also seen sizable gains, having risen nearly 6% in the past day. The Dogecoin competitor an...

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    2 min read
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    This Week in Coins: Bitcoin Continues Surge, Meme Coin Mania on Legendary Investor's Death

    It's been another eventful week in the crypto sphere. Bitcoin continued to hit highs not seen since the digital asset crash of May 2022: the biggest virtual coin touched $39,000 Friday before dropping down again. It is now trading for $38,806 per coin, according to CoinGecko. That's a 24-hour rise of about 1%. Over the week, it's up by 3%. The reason for the asset's surge was likely in part due to a dovish forecast from the Federal Reserve: governor Christopher J. Waller said Tuesday that althou...

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    2 min read
    Mat Di Salvo

  • Is Bitcoin Poised for Another Bull Run? Experts Weigh In

    Bitcoin today hit $39,000 per coin for the first time since a brutal digital asset crash in May 2022 that brought with it a long and painful bear market.  The virtual coin has since made a terrific comeback: at the start of January, it was trading for less than $17,000 per coin; it is now up 128%. Could this mean we’re seeing the beginning of a bull run? Some experts say it’s only up from here.    A lot has happened in the crypto space since blockchain project Terra collapsed last year, leading...

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    3 min read
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    Bitcoin Hits $39K as Bullish ETF Optimism Boosts Crypto Market

    Bitcoin today hit $39,000 per coin for the first time April 2022. The biggest digital coin by market capitalization was last sitting at that level before crypto project Terra collapsed in May 2022—which subsequently brought chaos to the digital asset ecosystem by plunging the price of every cryptocurrency and leading to a number of high-profile bankruptcies. According to figures from America's biggest crypto exchange Coinbase, Bitcoin hit $39,000 per coin at 11.30am Eastern Time. It has since di...

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    2 min read
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  • The Office of Foreign Assets Control is a department within the U.S. Treasury. Image: Shutterstock

    Sanctioned Bitcoin Mixer Blender Relaunched as Sinbad—It’s Been Sanctioned Again

    Earlier this year, news dropped that federally sanctioned coin mixer Blender had relaunched as a different app called Sinbad. Now, the feds have gone after the controversial successor. In a Wednesday announcement, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it had sanctioned the Sinbad app because North Korean hacking group Lazarus Group used it to launder millions of dollars in dodgy funds. “Sinbad is also used by cybercriminals to obfuscate transactions linked t...

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    2 min read
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  • MicroStrategy has invested in Bitcoin. Image: Shutterstock

    MicroStrategy Bought $593 Million More Bitcoin in November

    Tech company MicroStrategy has bought even more Bitcoin—bringing its holdings to 174,530 BTC. As of Thursday morning, its Bitcoin stash is worth approximately $6.6 billion. In a Thursday tweet, MicroStrategy founder and chairman Michael Saylor said that his firm, which provides software solutions for companies wanting to analyze their data, had this week bought an extra 16,130 BTC for a price of $593.3 million. The company, based in Tyson, Virginia, has now spent a total of $5.28 billion on the...

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    2 min read
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  • Solana Gets Some Shine: Ethereum Rival Rallies Again

    After cooling its November rally Solana has shot up again: it's right now the best-performing cryptocurrency out of the top 20 coins and tokens. At the time of writing Solana (SOL) is trading for $60.16 per coin—a 24-hour jump of over 7%, according to CoinGecko. Over the past seven days, SOL has gained 10% in value. SOL experienced a phenomenal rally throughout November. The Ethereum-competitor price soared past $50 for the first time since May 2022, beating most coins and tokens in performance....

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    2 min read
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    Bitcoin Will Hit $100K in 2024, Predicts Standard Chartered—Again

    Bitcoin will hit $100,000 by next year, British multinational bank Standard Chartered has said.  The bank made its first bullish predictions back in April, predicting that the largest digital coin would hit $100,000 by the end of 2024.  In July, its team of analysts projected that Bitcoin could hit $120,000 in the same timeframe.  While the protracted bear market that dominated 2023 is only recently showing signs of thawing, the bank is again saying Bitcoin could hit $100,000—and that a Bitcoin...

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    2 min read
    Mat Di Salvo
  • Where is the price of Bitcoin going next? Image: Shutterstock

    Bitcoin Turns Bullish Again Amid Dovish Fed Forecast

    Bitcoin has continued its bullish trajectory and is now trading above $38,000 per coin—for the second time in one week—following dovish comments from the Federal Reserve. The biggest digital asset by market cap today hit a high of $38,223, according to CoinGecko. That's a 3.5% 24-hour rise. Over seven days, it's up nearly 3%. Bitcoin last week blew past $38,000 per coin for the first time in 18 months. Before then, the cryptocurrency had generally traded below the $38,000 level ever since crypto...

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    2 min read
    Mat Di Salvo
  • Free money? Crypto projects continue to airdrop coins. Image: Shutterstock

    Solana Token Pyth Pumps Following $77 Million Airdrop for DeFi Users

    The native token of DeFi oracle network Pyth has surged in price and is one of today's leaders in the altcoin rally. The Solana-based Pyth (PYTH) token is up more than 10% in the past day and 35% over the week. It's currently trading hands for $0.42, according to CoinGecko. The anticipated Pyth airdrop happened last week, offering up about 250 million of its Solana-based tokens to early users. The airdrop was valued at roughly $77 million at the time. The same amount would be worth $105 million...

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    2 min read
    Mat Di Salvo

  • This Week in Coins: Bitcoin Hits 18-Month High After Sleepy Week, Ethereum Rallies

    Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. Crypto markets had a sleepy week—until Friday. Bitcoin had barely budged on Thanksgiving but the next day it hit an 18-month high, touching $38,000 per coin. The last time it hit that level was before the collapse of crypto mega project Terra in May 2022 which led to a fall in the price of every coin and token and the bankruptcy of major digital asset companies. Bitcoin is today trading for $37,751, flat over 24-hours. Over the week, it's up about 3%...

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    2 min read
    Mat Di Salvo
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    Ethereum Layer-2 Blast Has $400 Million Locked in Just 4 Days, Despite Concerns

    Interest in upcoming Ethereum layer-2 network Blast is bringing lots of cash with it. According to DeFi Llama, total value locked (TVL) in the project now stands at over $405 million just days after the project was announced—and it’s growing fast.  Blast is a new Ethereum scaling network announced on Tuesday. In the crowded market of layer-2 networks (like Arbitrum and Optimism), developers come up with ideas to make it quicker, easier, and cheaper for people to do things on Ethereum’s sometimes...

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    4 min read
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  • Coinbase is a popular Bitcoin trading platform. Image: Shuttersock

    Coinbase Stock Hits 18-Month High Alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum

    Top digital coins Bitcoin and Ethereum aren’t the only booming assets in the crypto sphere right now: Coinbase’s stock is also on a roll.  Shares of America’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange—COIN on the Nasdaq—are at the highest price since before Terra crashed back in May 2022.  The price of COIN is trading for $115.75 per share—up nearly 6% in the past day—and has nearly touched $117 per share so far on Friday. And over the past month, COIN has shot up over 41%, when it was trading for $82 per...

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    2 min read
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  • Bitcoin. Image: Shutterstock

    Bitcoin Surges Above $38,000 as BTC and Ethereum Hit 18-Month Highs

    The crypto markets may have sat still on Thanksgiving, but early price action on Friday is driving some of the top coins to levels unseen in a year and a half. Bitcoin on Friday rocketed above the $38,000 mark, according to CoinGecko, rising to $38,390 at present. The last time BTC hit that level was back in May 2022. Over the past week, the asset has risen by nearly 7%, pushing its 30-day gains above 10%. Cash has flooded back into the crypto markets, with big digital asset funds receiving most...

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    2 min read
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  • Has Nayib Bukele’s Big Bitcoin Bet Borne Fruit?

    El Salvador’s wildly popular president Nayib Bukele was a big backer of Bitcoin during the 2021 bull market. After his bull-run buying spree, the Salvadoran leader announced in November of last year that the country would add one Bitcoin a day to its fortress balance sheet. He’s since been slagged off for being reckless by everyone from university professors to U.S. lawmakers.  But how has the investment actually performed? According to the NayibTracker website—which has used the president’s twe...

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    2 min read
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    This Turkey Day in Coins: BTC, ETH, and DOGE Sit Stuffed

    Crypto traders appear to have stuffed themselves silly this Thanksgiving—with digital asset markets largely sitting still. Bitcoin on Thursday had barely moved at the time of writing: the largest virtual coin by market cap was priced at $37,353, a 24-hour move of nearly zero, according to CoinGecko.  Over the past seven days, the asset has gone up in value by a modest 4%.  Ethereum also experienced a lull. The asset also dropped by half a percentage point and was priced at $2,067 at time of writ...

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    2 min read
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