Grayscale files S-3 for Digital Large Cap ETF

Grayscale files S-3 for Digital Large Cap ETF

The fund holds a diverse basket of cryptocurrencies, including altcoins such as ETH, SOL, ADA and XRP. Asset manager Grayscale has filed to list an exchange-traded fund (ETF) holding a diverse basket of spot cryptocurrencies, US regulatory filings show. On April 1, Grayscale submitted an S-3 regulatory filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission…

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March 2025 in charts: Trump trade war hits Bitcoin, M in DeFi hacks

March 2025 in charts: Trump trade war hits Bitcoin, $22M in DeFi hacks

US President Donald Trump’s trade war is affecting crypto markets, where his own family has significant investments. Meanwhile, DeFi hacks are costing the industry. March was a rough month for markets — US President Donald Trump’s uncertain tariff policies created volatility in Bitcoin and crypto markets; meanwhile, decentralized finance (DeFi) struggled with security concerns. Retaliatory…

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Stablecoins, tokenized assets gain as Trump tariffs loom

Stablecoins, tokenized assets gain as Trump tariffs loom

Crypto investors shift into stablecoins and real-world assets as Trump’s April 2 trade tariffs spark volatility and macroeconomic uncertainty fears. Cryptocurrency investors are increasingly moving capital into stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) in a bid to avoid volatility ahead of US President Donald Trump’s widely anticipated tariff announcement on April 2. Increasingly more capital…

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John Oliver Mocks Trump Administration for Adding Atlantic Editor to Military Ops Group Chat: “Another Week of Chaos”

John Oliver Mocks Trump Administration for Adding Atlantic Editor to Military Ops Group Chat: “Another Week of Chaos”

John Oliver mocked the Trump administration’s major gaffe last week, wherein U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz unknowingly added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine to a group text in which leaders discussed plans for an airstrike in the Middle East. “The Trump administration brought us yet another week of chaos,” he said on Sunday’s…

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Bill Maher Mocks Trump Administration’s Yemen Attack Plans Leak: “They’re All Using Emojis”

Bill Maher Mocks Trump Administration’s Yemen Attack Plans Leak: “They’re All Using Emojis”

Bill Maher got straight to the big news of the week during the latest episode of HBO’s Real Time: “The first real, true big scandal of the Trump administration.” The host kicked off the show, mocking the scandal, which saw the highest-ranking national security officials inadvertently add the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine to a Signal group…

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Senators press regulators on Trump’s WLFI stablecoin

Senators press regulators on Trump’s WLFI stablecoin

US Senator Elizabeth Warren and four colleagues quizzed leadership at the OCC and Fed about the “unprecedented risks” of President Donald Trump overseeing the WLFI stablecoin. Five Democratic lawmakers in the US Senate have called on leadership at regulatory agencies to consider the potential conflicts of interest from a stablecoin launched by World Liberty Financial…

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