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BTC

$100,874.00

-1.19%

ETH

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-2.92%

BNB

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-2.01%

SOL

$131.66

-2.52%

TRX

$0.26357

-2.61%

ADA

$0.541115

-2.35%

WBTC

$100,798.00

-0.97%

BCH

$454.85

-2.47%

XLM

$0.228613

-3.45%

WBT

$48.23

-0.66%

SHIB

$0.00001058

-2.92%

XMR

$298.15

-3.43%

PI

$0.502019

-3.25%

PEPE

$0.00000886

-3.80%

OKB

$49.77

-1.76%

TAO

$304.49

-3.62%

CRO

$0.079917

-5.74%

ETC

$15.18

-2.57%

TKX

$27.28

-2.23%

MNT

$0.586856

-4.05%

GT

$15.90

-2.39%

LBTC

$100,586.00

-0.14%

KAS

$0.064008

-2.99%

VET

$0.01928334

-3.70%

POL

$0.172629

0.02%

SKY

$0.072488

-2.31%

FET

$0.583966

-4.11%

ENA

$0.23783

-4.79%

WLD

$0.828105

-4.30%

KCS

$10.74

-1.73%

ARB

$0.267474

-2.45%

QNT

$90.34

-0.47%

SEI

$0.199939

-5.72%

FLR

$0.01595472

-4.53%

JUP

$0.345253

-3.71%

BONK

$0.0000122

-4.73%

XDC

$0.055929

-3.76%

STX

$0.559773

-3.94%

OP

$0.485852

-3.98%

S

$0.264214

1.63%

WBTC

$100,619.00

-1.15%

IP

$2.74

1.26%

A

$0.475331

0.58%

CRV

$0.535838

-3.12%

GRT

$0.073136

-4.54%

WIF

$0.686216

-1.65%

IMX

$0.360568

-2.19%

AB

$0.01007326

-4.15%

ZEC

$38.11

-3.14%

LDO

$0.654108

-3.73%

BSV

$29.43

-2.18%

ENS

$17.01

-3.50%

GALA

$0.01252074

-3.58%

BTT

$0.00000056

-2.54%

TBTC

$100,601.00

-1.50%

XTZ

$0.494341

-2.01%

WAL

$0.378943

-4.20%

APE

$0.559053

-3.49%

BDX

$0.060999

0.35%

XCN

$0.01281653

-7.14%

NFT

$0.00000039

-4.78%

KET

$0.374603

-0.00%

XEC

$0.00001741

-4.01%

EOS

$0.475679

0.50%

AXL

$0.336694

-4.79%

JST

$0.03345071

-1.94%

CFX

$0.063558

-4.41%

B

$0.322742

3.31%

RSR

$0.00552269

-4.67%

AR

$4.82

-0.44%

TEL

$0.00341955

-5.76%

WBTC

$100,647.00

-1.10%

CHZ

$0.03221441

-2.29%

EBTC

$100,620.00

-1.18%

SUN

$0.01605849

-5.65%

DAI

$0.999878

0.02%

ATH

$0.0309222

-6.00%

ZBCN

$0.00347377

-8.16%

LUNC

$0.0000524

-4.20%

MOG

$0.00000073

-1.99%

TWT

$0.669146

-2.73%

DOG

$0.00278736

-1.43%

ABTC

$100,669.00

-0.64%

RON

$0.412285

-3.78%

GNO

$100.96

-1.99%

AKT

$0.963066

-5.80%

AMP

$0.00309968

-5.17%

CTC

$0.553854

-5.83%

W

$0.054093

-6.16%

KTA

$0.594365

4.73%

USR

$0.999574

-0.02%

BEAM

$0.00453505

-3.34%

GHO

$0.99908

-0.03%

DCR

$13.55

-1.39%

SFP

$0.452288

-9.62%
Price data by
Sander Lutz

Sander Lutz

Sander is a senior writer at Decrypt reporting on crypto policy from the White House. He covers crypto's impact on politics, law, and culture. Sander graduated from UC Berkeley and holds a masters in history from Cambridge. Disclosure: No significant crypto holdings.

Stories by Sander Lutz

  • Source: Decrypt

    Solana, XRP and Dogecoin ETF Approvals in 2025 Are a Near Lock, Analysts Say

    Two top Wall Street analysts are confident many top altcoins ETFs will imminently be approved for trading—so confident, they’ve now estimated the likelihood of such spot approvals coming before the end of the year at almost 100%.   Solana, XRP, and Litecoin spot ETFs are near-locks at 95% odds of approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by the end of 2025, the analysts, Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart of Bloomberg, wrote Friday.  Dogecoin, Cardano, Polkadot, Hedera, and Avalan...

    NewsBusiness
    5 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Lady Justice. Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    A Lawyer and His Wiener Doge Must Be Separated, Phantom Argues in Meme Coin Lawsuit

    You may love WIENER DOGE. You may live for WIENER DOGE. But you cannot create WIENER DOGE, and then represent a group of plaintiffs in a lawsuit centered on an alleged theft of WIENER DOGE—that’s, at least, according to a new legal filing.  In April, the creator of a Solana meme coin called WIENER DOGE (ever heard of it?) sued the popular crypto wallet Phantom, claiming that flaws in the wallet’s design led directly to the theft of over $500,000 worth of the token. Now, Phantom’s attorneys are h...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • US capitol building in D.C. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Senate Passes Landmark Stablecoin Bill in Major Boon for Crypto Industry

    After months of dramatic starts and stops, the U.S. Senate successfully passed the GENIUS Act Tuesday afternoon, a landmark bill that formally establishes a framework for issuing and trading stablecoins in the United States. The bill passed 68-30, with 18 Democrats joining Republicans in support of the legislation. A Senate Republican, Josh Hawley (R-MO), voted against the bill, joining progressive Senate Democrats like Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in opposition to provisions in the legislation that...

    NewsLaw and Order
    5 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Crypto Is Now Trump's Second-Most Lucrative Source of Income

    Donald Trump’s crypto holdings were his second biggest source of income last year—and that was before the president retook office and made billions more off the sector from the White House.  According to annual financial disclosure forms filed Friday with the United States Office of Government Ethics, Trump made over $58 million from crypto ventures in 2024. The vast majority of that revenue came from sales of WLFI, the governance token issued by World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypt...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Elizabeth Warren. Image: Shutterstock

    Elizabeth Warren, Consumer Groups Slam Walmart and Amazon Stablecoin Plans

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and leading consumer advocacy groups denounced a report Friday that Amazon and Walmart are considering issuing their own stablecoins, framing such developments as an unacceptable outcome of pending stablecoin legislation in the Senate. “Let’s not forget the GENIUS Act has a major loophole allowing Big Tech companies and major retailers to issue their own private currencies structured as stablecoins,” Warren said Friday in a statement shared with Decrypt. “If Congress...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • DOJ signage. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Weeks Before Trial, Tornado Cash’s Roman Storm Sounds Alarm: ‘If I Lose, DeFi Dies With Me’

    Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm issued one of his starkest rebukes yet of the Trump administration’s Department of Justice on Friday, arguing that if federal prosecutors prevail in the developer’s upcoming criminal trial, decentralized finance could be permanently destroyed.  “The DOJ wants to bury DeFi, saying I should’ve controlled it, added KYC, [and] never built it,” Storm wrote. “SDNY is trying to crush me, blocking every expert witness.” “If I lose, DeFi dies with me,” the crypto devel...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    'Attack of the Clones': Coinbase Raises Alarm on Risks With Bitcoin Treasury Model

    Coinbase issued a dire warning Thursday to publicly traded companies going all in on Bitcoin: The gains may be addictive now—but if and when the music stops and prices fall, disaster could ensue.  In a report on the crypto market’s outlook for the second half of 2025, Coinbase Head of Research David Duong predicted that the recent trend of American corporations spinning up multibillion dollar Bitcoin treasuries may be bullish in the near future, but poses “systemic risks” to the entire crypto ec...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • US Capitol building. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Crypto Industry’s Coveted Market Structure Bill Is Doomed, Lobbyists Say

    Late last night, the House’s crypto market structure bill passed votes in two committees, prompting celebration on Capitol Hill and statements of confidence from lawmakers that the legislation—which would establish a novel framework for regulating most crypto activity in the United States—is on a glide path to becoming law.  But privately, in the last week, crypto’s top lobbyists have come to a very different conclusion: For a variety of reasons, the chances of market structure legislation passi...

    NewsLaw and Order
    7 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • US capitol building in D.C. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Crypto Market Structure Bill Passes One House Committee, But Faces Steep Climb in Another

    The CLARITY Act successfully passed a vote by the House Agriculture Committee Tuesday—a widely expected outcome that still leaves plenty of hurdles for the crypto market structure legislation to overcome.  The bill, which would create a framework in the United States for issuing and trading most cryptocurrencies, passed the Ag Committee Tuesday morning in a decidedly bipartisan 47-6 committee vote. At the same time, down the hall, the CLARITY Act faced more intensive scrutiny from Democrats in a...

    NewsLaw and Order
    6 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Coinbase. Image: Decrypt

    Justin Sun-Linked BiT Global Drops Coinbase Lawsuit Over Wrapped Bitcoin

    Digital asset custodian BiT Global has agreed to permanently dismiss a lawsuit against Coinbase over the crypto exchange’s delisting of Wrapped Bitcoin, aka WBTC, one of the world’s most popular tokens.  Both parties agreed Friday to dismiss BiT Global’s suit with prejudice, meaning the matter cannot be litigated in the future. Each party will cover their own legal fees, according to the filing. BiT Global sued Coinbase in December for delisting WBTC, or Wrapped Bitcoin—a popular digital asset t...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Circle is the issuer behind USDC. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Circle IPO Outperforms Public Debuts From Meta, Robinhood and Airbnb

    Circle’s dynamite IPO this week wasn’t just impressive by crypto standards—it outperformed expectations to a degree unrivaled even by America’s most prominent tech companies. The evening before its Thursday trading debut on the New York Stock Exchange, Circle priced its stock, CRCL, at $31 a share. That represented a mark-up from the lower share prices the firm floated earlier in the week: $26, and then $28. Such last-minute moves are generally indicative of increased investor interest in a comp...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • US Capitol building. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    House Democrats Sound Alarm on CLARITY Act: Impact 'Will Not Be Quarantined to Crypto', Says Expert

    Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee held their own hearing Friday to discuss a pending crypto market structure bill, during which witnesses laid out concerns about the legislation’s potentially wide-reaching implications for American securities markets. Whereas most hearings about the bill have thus far been convened by the committee’s Republican majority, which introduced it, today’s “minority day” convening offered Democrats the rare opportunity to focus attention on perceived...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • President Donald Trump has launched multiple crypto ventures. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Trump Crypto Wallet Goes Dark Following Cease and Desist

    The website for a crypto wallet linked to President Donald Trump’s meme coin went dark for many internet users Thursday, hours after the project received a cease and desist letter from another Trump-linked crypto project threatening legal action.  Earlier this week, Trump’s meme coin project launched a crypto wallet in partnership with major NFT marketplace Magic Eden, offering a chance at financial rewards in the form of TRUMP tokens to users who signed up for the product’s waitlist. The wallet...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Tether CEO Paolo Ardonio. Image: Tether/Decrypt

    ‘They Make No Money’: Here’s What Tether’s CEO Had to Say About Circle Before Its Massive IPO

    It was early April, during the middle of a conversation with Decrypt at Cantor Fitzgerald’s swanky midtown Manhattan headquarters, that Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino abruptly asked to pause the interview. The reason? He’d noticed a “weird message” on the laptop open in front of him.  After twenty seconds of silence in the conference room, Ardoino’s face flashed a big grin. Reports were circulating that Circle, one of Tether’s chief competitors, might tap the brakes on its long-planned IPO.  ”People w...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • President Donald Trump. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Airdrops Millions of Stablecoins to 85,000 Wallets

    World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s Ethereum-based crypto platform, successfully completed its first widescale airdrop Wednesday, sending $47 worth of its stablecoin to tens of thousands of user wallets.  All crypto wallets holding any amount of WLFI, the project’s governance token, were eligible to receive the airdrop, according to a proposal that passed last month. Crypto users in certain jurisdictions including New York, however, were excluded from the giveaway for legal reasons.  Acc...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • SEC Logo. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    House Democrats Claim SEC Is Denying Them Key Info on Crypto Bill

    House Democrat staffers unloaded on the SEC Tuesday, accusing the agency of playing politics and defying precedent by denying them crucial information about the potential impact of a newly introduced crypto market structure bill.  The SEC routinely provides technical assistance, dubbed “TA,” to lawmakers when pending legislation could impact the agency’s functioning. This analysis, typically provided by apolitical SEC experts to members of both parties, helps lawmakers understand, at a granular...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Trump Meme Coin Team Is Launching a Crypto Wallet, President's Sons Deny Involvement

    President Donald Trump and his business partners appear to be launching their own crypto wallet, one linked to his Solana-based meme coin and rolled out in partnership with major NFT marketplace Magic Eden. A site where users can sign up for a waitlist to gain access to the wallet launched Tuesday. A Magic Eden spokesperson confirmed both the legitimacy of the site and the company’s partnership with Trump’s business partners to Decrypt. The site was first spotted by independent journalist Molly...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz

  • Stablecoin Giant Circle Bullish on IPO Demand, Boosts Offering With $7.2 Billion Valuation

    Stablecoin issuer Circle is upping the ante on its planned IPO, boosting the forecasted price and volume of shares it plans to imminently offer on Wall Street. The company now intends to sell 32 million shares of Class A common stock at between $27 and $28 a share, according to a Monday SEC filing—a bid to raise up to $896 million. That’s a sizable expansion from last week’s initial IPO plans, which would have seen Circle offer 24 million shares for between $24 and $26 a piece. The initial IPO w...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Nigel Farage. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Nigel Farage Pledges to Slash Crypto Capital Gains, Force UK Bitcoin Reserve

    Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform Party, is going all-in on crypto—and used an appearance at Bitcoin 2025 this week to showcase his coalition’s new emphasis.  Onstage Thursday at the annual Bitcoin conference, which this year took place in Las Vegas, Farage pledged to prioritize crypto should he become prime minister after the UK’s next general election in 2029.  During the appearance, the British politician waved a printed copy of a new piece of legislation, dubbed the Cry...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • President Donald Trump. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Trump Media Raises $2.4 Billion to Launch Bitcoin Treasury

    Just three days after debuting a multi-billion dollar fundraising plan to purchase Bitcoin, President Donald Trump’s Trump Media & Technology Group announced Friday that it has successfully raised $2.4 billion for its crypto treasury.  The funds were raised via an offering of common stock and convertible senior secure notes, the company said. Roughly 50 institutional investors participated in the sale, which produced $2.32 billion in net proceeds.  Those funds will now be used to create a Bitcoi...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
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