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BTC

$100,258.00

-0.62%

ETH

$3,926.17

-0.34%

SOL

$223.68

-2.60%

BNB

$715.57

0.43%

TRX

$0.288255

-3.48%

SHIB

$0.00002802

-2.57%

WBTC

$100,000.00

-0.71%

XLM

$0.437223

1.58%

BCH

$532.75

-2.79%

UNI

$17.32

-5.62%

PEPE

$0.0000242

-1.67%

LTC

$119.96

-1.05%

POL

$0.619715

-3.31%

ETC

$34.12

-0.99%

CRO

$0.186044

-0.67%

VET

$0.059545

-2.81%

ARB

$1.045

-2.24%

TAO

$575.67

-5.10%

KAS

$0.160789

-5.26%

XMR

$205.16

4.82%

OM

$3.86

-7.73%

OKB

$54.61

-2.58%

OP

$2.61

2.83%

ENA

$1.026

-5.23%

INJ

$28.89

-3.01%

GRT

$0.282044

-2.97%

SEI

$0.600473

-3.71%

QNT

$139.65

-0.97%

BEAM

$0.03633253

0.71%

MKR

$2,067.13

-0.22%

FLR

$0.0300544

1.74%

EOS

$1.082

-2.61%

GT

$12.94

1.96%

AR

$23.26

-0.30%

TKX

$18.72

-3.34%

LBTC

$100,177.00

-0.74%

NEO

$18.65

-1.32%

BSV

$66.16

-2.28%

BTT

$0.00000134

-2.87%

XDC

$0.085881

-5.12%

MOG

$0.00000318

1.20%

STAU

$0.113886

-16.19%

CHZ

$0.114031

-3.64%

CFX

$0.214878

-2.51%

ZEC

$58.97

-2.99%

WBTC

$99,864.00

-0.63%

W

$0.325587

-5.42%

DOG

$0.00889048

-5.41%

XEC

$0.0000443

-2.43%

ZK

$0.231137

-3.69%

NOT

$0.00818033

-3.42%

AXL

$0.920494

-3.05%

RSR

$0.01483618

-0.87%

AMP

$0.00950093

-2.99%

GNO

$291.36

0.96%

LUNC

$0.00013191

-2.73%

MEW

$0.00814273

-4.22%

EBTC

$100,070.00

-0.09%

CKB

$0.01427337

-2.57%

SPX

$0.672232

-7.84%

LPT

$16.99

-5.63%

KSM

$39.03

-0.95%

NFT

$0.00000059

-4.34%

HOT

$0.00327659

-2.74%

ENJ

$0.325963

-2.74%

BOME

$0.0083929

-3.29%

ACT

$0.586649

3.89%

ZRX

$0.648668

-1.15%

ME

$4.19

-13.59%

TEL

$0.00705164

0.08%

WOO

$0.292588

-4.04%

BDX

$0.078593

-1.63%

ZIL

$0.028072

-1.75%

GMT

$0.201225

-2.13%

IO

$4.12

-6.73%

SNEK

$0.00696468

-3.44%

MRS

$5.91

154.64%

SATS

$0.00000023

-2.14%

TBTC

$99,863.00

-0.83%

ANKR

$0.04696541

-4.41%

MEME

$0.01405937

-2.92%

IOTX

$0.04858644

-1.45%

JST

$0.04509846

-2.33%

BAT

$0.289457

-2.50%

GLM

$0.431982

-2.13%

ONE

$0.03472316

-7.47%
Price data by
Sander Lutz

Sander Lutz

Sander is a reporter at Decrypt. Prior to getting into crypto, he worked in the entertainment industry at Hollywood talent agencies like CAA, and in academia at UC Berkeley School of Law. He graduated from UC Berkeley and has a masters in history from Cambridge. Disclosure: No significant crypto holdings.

Stories by Sander Lutz

  • How crypto money influenced the 2024 election, and what it means for the American political process going forward, is Decrypt's Story of the Year.

    Decrypt’s 2024 Story of the Year: How Crypto Money Changed American Politics

    It was December 2022, FTX had just collapsed into a $32 billion dollar cloud of vapor, Sam Bankman-Fried was adjusting to life in the sick bay of a Bahamian prison, and Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad was feeling cautiously optimistic.  Shirzad was a battle-tested D.C. insider with decades of experience navigating the inner sanctums of Congress and the White House. As the steward of Coinbase’s reputation on Capitol Hill, there was certainly plenty about the implosion of fellow crypt...

    Deep DivesLong Reads
    14 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • The FDIC is an independent U.S. agency put in place in 1933. Image: Shutterstock.

    Do New FDIC Letters Really Prove the Existence of Anti-Crypto Operation Chokepoint 2.0?

    Coinbase declared vindication on Friday, claiming that newly disclosed correspondences between the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and member banks help prove that the U.S. government has been secretly waging a war on crypto for years. But what exactly do the documents reveal? Coinbase has long pushed for the FDIC to disclose how it has communicated with American banks about crypto. On Friday, the company—and the public—got some answer to that question, with the FDIC publishing 23 l...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Looking for something? Image: Shutterstock

    Hawk Tuah Girl’s Meme Coin Faces Allegations of Rug Pull, Project Leads Deny Wrongdoing

    The “Hawk Tuah” girl launched a meme coin, and—anyone? Any guesses?  Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: allegations are swirling online that the project has been rug pulled, while the team behind the crypto token, HAWK, is adamantly denying any wrongdoing.  On Wednesday evening, Hailey Welch, Ms. Tuah herself, launched the HAWK token to much fanfare. Within less than 15 minutes, the token climbed to a market capitalization of $490 million before immediately collapsing over 93% in value.  A...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Eric Adams. Image: Shutterstock

    'Who's Laughing Now?' NYC Mayor Eric Adams Boasts About Bitcoin Paychecks

    New York City mayor Eric Adams, known for his humility and low profile, delivered his latest message to his haters this week—this time on the subject of Bitcoin. “Remember when y’all laughed at me when I first got my Bitcoin?” Adams said to a room of reporters during a press conference on Tuesday. “Who’s laughing now?”  Adams then laughed heartily, before adding: “Go look at my Bitcoin now.” In early 2022, Adams took his first three paychecks as New York City mayor in Bitcoin and Ethereum—a sum...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • A screenshot from Enron's rebirth video. Image: Enron

    Crypto Pivot or Parody? Scandal-Rocked Enron Purportedly Relaunches

    Enron—yes, that Enron—announced on Monday that it has relaunched to “solv[e] the global energy crisis” with the aid of decentralized technology, some 23 years after the firm collapsed in what was then the greatest corporate fraud scandal in American history. But is it a real crypto pivot from the disgraced brand, or is it all just bullshit? The purported comeback is described as "parody" and "performance art" deep within the website, though other signs suggest that there may be something here—ev...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Andrew Hayward, Sander Lutz
  • Bananas. Photo: Shutterstock

    Justin Sun Still Plans to Buy 100,000 Bananas After Art Auction Backlash

    After purchasing a duct-taped banana at auction for $6.24 million last week, crypto billionaire Justin Sun announced he would reward the banana’s original vendor—a Manhattan fruit merchant who parted ways with it for 25 cents—by offering to buy 100,000 additional bananas from the man’s sidewalk stand. But shortly thereafter, the vendor dismissed the plan as nearly impossible to execute and said it would reap barely any profit. Tron officials told Decrypt on Friday that it is in communication wit...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Image created by Decrypt using AI.

    This Public Company's Stock Price Just Doubled After Revealing Bitcoin Buying Plan

    Yet another publicly traded company says it's going all in on Bitcoin—and immediately reaped the benefits.  SOS Ltd, a China-based cloud computing and crypto mining firm, announced on Wednesday morning that it plans to buy $50 million worth of BTC. Within minutes, the company’s stock shot up over 97%, to $13.81, nearly doubling in price. The NYSE-traded stock, SOS, has since fallen to $12.79—still up 84% on the day. MicroStrategy Now Holds $36 Billion in Bitcoin—These Are Its Biggest Buys “This...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Image: Sarah M. Vasquez

    Art Blocks NFT Project Takes 'Major Leap Forward' on Ethereum

    Art Blocks, the popular platform and collective for on-chain artwork, announced on Wednesday that it has achieved a longstanding goal: ensuring that the vast majority of its projects can now be accessed and viewed solely by navigating the Ethereum blockchain. While all Art Blocks projects have been created on Ethereum since the collective launched in 2020, those pieces have always required a back-end generator provided by the company to be viewable online. Now, however, even the mechanisms neede...

    NewsNFTs
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Justin Sun. Image: Tron

    Trump Company Nets $15 Million Payday as Justin Sun Buys Bulk of World Liberty Tokens

    After months of lackluster sales, the Trump family’s decentralized finance (DeFi) project World Liberty Financial received an infusion of support on Monday from none other than Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron blockchain.  Sun confirmed the purchase of $30 million worth of World Liberty's governance token, WLFI, to his followers on X (formerly known as Twitter). The project had previously sold slightly more than $20 million worth of the tokens, meaning that Sun now controls a healthy majority...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Image: @metaversejoji on Twitter

    Dogwifhat Price Jumps as Solana Meme Coin Joins Dogecoin on Robinhood

    Dogwifhat (WIF) jumped in value on Monday morning after Robinhood announced that the popular Solana meme coin is now available for trading on its platform in the United States. WIF, which surged from worthlessness around this time last year to a market capitalization in excess of $3.28 billion at writing, has been one of 2024’s greatest meme coin success stories. The token now joins just 19 other crypto tokens available for trading on Robinhood Crypto, including Dogecoin, the largest meme coin b...

    NewsCoins
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • SEC Headquarters Image: Andriy Blokhin/Shutterstock

    Another Democrat Quits SEC After Gary Gensler—Here’s What It Means

    A day after Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler announced that he plans to resign once Donald Trump is sworn in as president, another Democrat on the five-member Commission announced Friday that he is also stepping down.  Jaime Lizárraga, who has served as an SEC commissioner since 2022, said today that he will step down from his role on January 17, 2025, and has already informed President Joe Biden of those plans. Gensler is set to depart three days later on January 20....

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • image: Anthony Delanoix on Unsplash

    Polymarket Blocks Users in France After Trump Betting Controversy

    After weeks of escalating tensions between Polymarket and the French government, the popular prediction betting market opted to block France-based users on Friday—cutting out a major market for the site.  Users attempting to access the site from France today found a new pop-up preventing them from doing so.  “You appear to be located in the United States, France, or another related jurisdiction,” the new pop-up reads. “Trading is not available to U.S. persons, persons located in the United State...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Legal trouble can brew for some DeFi applications. Image: Unsplash

    Crypto Scores Crucial Court Win Against SEC as Gensler Calls It Quits

    A federal judge in Texas dealt a decisive blow to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s crypto policy on Thursday, ruling that the agency’s expansion of an existing securities law to apply to decentralized finance (DeFi) users and projects was unlawful and in excess of the regulator’s authority.  Judge Reed O’Connor granted summary judgment to the Blockchain Association, a crypto lobbying group that sued the SEC in April over the agency’s expansion of the legal definition of the word “de...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Image created by Decrypt using AI

    MicroStrategy Hits All-Time High Price After Bitcoin Tops $98,000

    MicroStrategy (MSTR) opened to yet another all-time high on Thursday as the price of Bitcoin itself surged to a fresh peak above $98,000. But MSTR shortly thereafter dove over 18% before recovering, with such volatility arriving as Wall Street adjusts to massive expectations for crypto stocks, fueled by Bitcoin’s meteoric post-election surge.  Similar dips appeared to impact other Bitcoin-related stocks on Thursday morning. Bitfarms (BITF), the Bitcoin mining firm, has fallen by 6% to $2.06 at w...

    NewsMarkets
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Former President Donald Trump. Photo: Shutterstock

    Trump Team Considering First-Ever Crypto White House Role: Bloomberg

    Donald Trump and his transition team are actively discussing the possibility of creating a full-time White House position focused on crypto policy, according to a report out Wednesday in Bloomberg. The role, if created, would constitute the first-ever job dedicated to cryptocurrency at the White House level. Presidents routinely appoint “czars” to focus on specific, high-priority issues, ranging from climate change to border security. Placing a crypto czar in the Trump White House would grant th...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Image: JOCA_PH / Shutterstock.com

    MicroStrategy Boosts Convertible Notes Offering to $2.6 Billion to Buy Even More Bitcoin

    MicroStrategy’s thirst for Bitcoin cannot be quenched, despite holding over $31 billion worth. Barely two days after announcing a plan to sell $1.75 billion worth of convertible notes as a means to buy up more of the world’s top cryptocurrency, the firm said on Wednesday that it has expanded that offering to $2.6 billion worth of notes.  Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy’s co-founder and executive chairman, said the move was made due to “high demand” for the new notes over the last 48 hours.  Given...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Donald Trump speaks at CPAC 2024. Image: Jonah Elkowitz/Shutterstock

    Bitcoin, Tether Bull Howard Lutnick Is Trump's Pick for Commerce Chief—Not Treasury

    Donald Trump has selected Wall Street billionaire and Bitcoin bull Howard Lutnick to serve as his Commerce Secretary, reports the Wall Street Journal. By doing so, Trump has rejected the investor’s reported push to run the Treasury Department, a position with far greater sway over the U.S. economy. Running the Department of Commerce is certainly no small prize for Lutnick, who is currently co-chairing Trump’s transition team. As Commerce chief—if confirmed by the U.S. Senate—Lutnick would handle...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Heather Morgan, aka Razzlekhan. Image: Vimeo/Razzlekhan

    'Razzlekhan' Sentenced to 18 Months Over $10.8 Billion Bitcoin Heist

    Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, the rapper-turned-Bitcoin-thief, was sentenced to 18 months in a U.S. federal prison on Monday for her role in the infamous 2016 Bitfinex hack, which saw Morgan and her husband steal $10.8 billion worth of BTC (by today’s price) from the crypto exchange.  Morgan received her sentence on Monday afternoon at a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. Last week, her husband Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced to 5 years in prison for his leading role in orchestrating the coup...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Former President Donald Trump. Photo: Shutterstock

    Trump Pivoting Away From Pro-Bitcoin Picks for Treasury Secretary: NYT

    Just when he looked poised to tap a crypto bull to run America’s economy, Donald Trump is reportedly having a rethink.  After whittling down his list of possible Treasury Secretary picks to Wall Street executives Scott Bessent and Howard Lutnick last week, the president-elect is now reconsidering whether either crypto advocate is up to the job—and is considering some less crypto-friendly alternatives, according to a new report in The New York Times.  The issues appear to primarily be interperson...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Dogecoin. Image: Shutterstock

    Dogecoin Could Soar 'Far Beyond' Current All-Time High Price: Analyst

    Even months ago, it would’ve sounded like a meme-induced fever dream. Crypto emerging as the biggest winner of the 2024 election; Elon Musk, Dogecoin’s most prominent advocate, rising to unprecedented levels of influence and power; the incoming U.S. presidential administration  planning to establish a new federal agency—literally—called D.O.G.E.  But it’s all real, and it’s all happening. And off the remarkable events of the last week, Dogecoin has soared. On election day, DOGE hovered around $0...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
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