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BTC

$108,940.00

0.72%

ETH

$3,848.28

-0.36%

BNB

$1,095.71

2.61%

SOL

$184.58

0.05%

TRX

$0.322904

-0.06%

ADA

$0.630862

-0.87%

WBTC

$108,864.00

0.78%

XLM

$0.310024

-0.61%

BCH

$486.78

1.94%

XMR

$320.90

4.18%

SHIB

$0.00000989

-0.85%

CRO

$0.142214

-2.14%

ZEC

$238.10

-11.99%

TAO

$389.73

0.65%

M

$2.17

-4.23%

OKB

$160.44

-0.53%

ENA

$0.442494

0.43%

PEPE

$0.00000676

-1.71%

ETC

$15.49

-0.71%

POL

$0.191051

-1.66%

WLD

$0.843977

-4.46%

HTX

$0.00000199

-0.87%

GT

$15.72

-0.51%

HASH

$0.03539878

-3.06%

KCS

$13.27

-0.54%

ARB

$0.304655

-1.01%

PI

$0.200935

-1.21%

IP

$5.16

-3.95%

VET

$0.01704573

-0.27%

SKY

$0.058652

1.06%

KAS

$0.050027

-1.70%

LBTC

$108,925.00

0.77%

FLR

$0.01720276

-0.89%

PUMP

$0.00354167

-4.42%

QNT

$81.00

-0.92%

SEI

$0.186518

-2.18%

JUP

$0.349622

-1.07%

XDC

$0.062159

0.21%

BONK

$0.00001397

-2.33%

IMX

$0.500403

-0.34%

WBTC

$108,904.00

0.62%

SPX

$0.92642

-4.63%

TIA

$0.982161

-1.59%

2Z

$0.230784

-5.27%

LDO

$0.874053

-1.55%

STX

$0.423436

-0.36%

OP

$0.422895

-2.21%

CRV

$0.522388

-0.93%

GRT

$0.061857

-1.74%

TBTC

$108,879.00

1.01%

XTZ

$0.584278

-2.36%

XPL

$0.343359

-8.73%

S

$0.162165

-3.16%

FET

$0.234948

-5.29%

BDX

$0.078873

-0.55%

AB

$0.00690659

-0.13%

CFX

$0.107202

-1.12%

DAI

$0.999963

0.01%

WIF

$0.507401

-1.18%

ENS

$15.03

-0.94%

GALA

$0.01058974

-2.19%

BTT

$0.00000049

-0.65%

A

$0.281552

-0.49%

SUN

$0.02324239

-1.40%

SNX

$1.28

-12.50%

GHO

$0.999593

0.01%

BSV

$21.07

-0.31%

AIC

$0.413909

6.03%

NFT

$0.00000041

-0.24%

ATH

$0.02828003

-5.89%

VSN

$0.1166

-3.27%

0G

$1.78

-2.39%

OHM

$22.74

-0.75%

TEL

$0.00382538

0.06%

WAL

$0.245135

7.46%

UBTC

$108,909.00

0.70%

APE

$0.390917

0.04%

W

$0.071135

-1.18%

ZBCN

$0.00361297

0.22%

RSR

$0.00553445

-3.79%

LION

$0.01070987

-1.51%

JST

$0.03317462

-1.45%

GNO

$123.38

0.09%

FF

$0.138801

-9.65%

CHZ

$0.03183385

-0.89%

XCN

$0.00880783

-0.10%
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

  • U.S. Capitol building. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Big Gaps Remain After Crypto Execs Meet With Senators on Market Structure Bill

    Top crypto industry executives met separately with key Senate Democrats and Republicans on Wednesday, in sit-downs that underscored how far apart lawmakers remain on market structure legislation—despite the positive vibes intended to be signaled by the meetings.  “Democrats don't like these timelines being put on them,” a source familiar with the events of both meetings told Decrypt. “But the Republicans are like: ‘If we don't move this in November, we don't get it done by the end of the year, t...

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

    Billions in Bitcoin Tied to Alleged Scammer Wanted by DOJ Are on the Move

    The alleged mastermind behind a $14 billion crypto scam, currently on the run from the U.S. government, has begun moving billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin to new wallets, according to on-chain data. Wallets tied to Chen Zhi, a Chinese and Cambodian national allegedly at the center of a global pig butchering crypto scam network, moved nearly $2 billion worth of Bitcoin from wallets recently sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department to new addresses, according to analysis from Arkham Intellige...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, home to the Fed's Reserve Board. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Fed Considering 'Skinny' Master Accounts for Crypto Banks on 'Streamlined Timeline'

    A key decision leader at the Federal Reserve has proposed a new path to registration with the central bank Tuesday—one that could, for the first time, unlock coveted privileges for crypto-focused financial institutions. Federal Reserve staff is currently exploring the idea of issuing “skinny” master accounts on a streamlined timeline to institutions that haven’t yet managed to secure full-fledged ones, Fed Governor Christopher Waller announced Tuesday at a conference in Washington.  Master accou...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz

  • MetaMask Showing Zero Balances, Base Network Struggling as AWS Issues Persist

    As the rest of the internet began to recover Monday afternoon from a seismic Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, key crypto sites and service providers continued to struggle from the setback. Apps like Coinbase and OpenSea have remained partially or entirely down for many users, particularly those on the East Coast.  Meanwhile, even decentralized crypto wallets like MetaMask have been showing some panicked users zero balances, due to outages at a service provider the wallet depends on to fetch use...

    NewsTechnology
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Coinbase is the leading cryptocurrency exchange in the US. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Coinbase, Robinhood Go Down for Hours Amid Widespread AWS Outage

    Top crypto trading platforms Coinbase and Robinhood went offline for hours Monday, with the companies citing an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage as the cause of the mayhem.  Users across the world panicked as their crypto funds became—at least temporarily—inaccessible. Users of both apps reported an inability not only to buy or sell tokens on Monday, but even to log into their accounts.  Companies like Coinbase and Robinhood depend on AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing provider, to host their sites....

    NewsTechnology
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Block Inc CEO Jack Dorsey. Image: Flickr/TED Conference/Decrypt

    'Only $250K?' Jack Dorsey Prods Tether Over Donation to Support Bitcoin Devs

    Sometimes it can be easier to say nothing at all.  This week, stablecoin giant Tether announced a $250,000 donation to OpenSats to support Bitcoin developers—only for one of the world’s best-known programmers (and Bitcoin maximalists) to publicly chastise the size of the gift.  Twitter co-founder and Square CEO Jack Dorsey lampooned the donation Thursday on X, shortly after it was touted by Tether’s CEO, Paolo Ardoino. “Why only $250K?” Dorsey replied curtly to Ardoino. why only $250k? — jack (...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Stripe logo at their headquarters in San Francisco. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Stripe's Tempo Blockchain Raises $500 Million, Poaches Prominent Ethereum Dev

    In a major show of force for Stripe’s upstart blockchain project Tempo, the company has reportedly raised $500 million—and nabbed one of the Ethereum network’s most prominent core developers, as well. Tempo has raised the funds in a Series A round that now values the project at $5 billion, according to a Friday report in Fortune. The round was reportedly co-led by venture firm Greenoaks and Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital. Stripe declined comment to Decrypt. Greenoaks and Thrive did not immediat...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • BlackRock. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    BlackRock Expands Stablecoin Push With Fund to Manage Reserve Assets

    BlackRock is going all-in on stablecoins.  The Wall Street giant said Thursday it will retool one of its money market funds to cater explicitly  to U.S. stablecoin issuers, by making the fund an approved reserve asset for such tokens under the recently passed GENIUS Act. The BlackRock Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund (BSTBL) will remove agency investments, shorten the maturity of its investments in U.S. Treasuries, and add overnight repurchase agreements as an eligible asset, in a bid to mak...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Stablecoins. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Trump-Allied Erebor Gains Federal Charter for Crypto Bank, Shaking Up Stablecoin Wars

    A key agency within the Treasury Department granted a conditional bank charter Wednesday to a crypto-focused bank for the first time under the current Trump administration, and only the second time ever, in a move likely to disrupt the exploding stablecoin sector. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today conditionally approved a bank charter application for Erebor, a crypto-focused bank with ties both to Silicon Valley’s most powerful players and President Donald Trump.  The bank, nam...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Bitcoin and the U.S. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    The US Just Scored $14 Billion in Bitcoin—Will It Go to a Strategic Reserve?

    The U.S. government now possesses an additional $14 billion more in Bitcoin. The only question is: What are they going to do with all that digital gold? On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced it had successfully seized over $14.4 billion worth of Bitcoin from Chen Zhi, the head of a Cambodia-based business conglomerate alleged to be at the center of a global crypto scam operation. The seizure is, by far, the largest in DOJ history.  Now, U.S. prosecutors have filed criminal wire fraud a...

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

    Republican Bill Aims to Make Trump's Bitcoin and Crypto 401K Order Federal Law

    A Republican congressman is pushing to legally codify an executive order recently signed by President Trump regarding retirement plans and alternative assets, in a move that could further push 401(k) providers to open the door to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Rep. Troy Downing (R-MT), a freshman congressman who has embraced crypto as a favorite issue this year, will introduce a bill Tuesday that would codify President Trump’s August executive order on crypto and 401(k)s into law, a represe...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Dogecoin is the crypto market's leading meme coin. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    House of Doge Goes Public in Latest Play to Boost Dogecoin TradFi Adoption

    House of Doge, the corporate arm of the Dogecoin Foundation, has gone public in the latest move by backers of the popular meme coin to infiltrate Wall Street and boost the token’s adoption in traditional commerce.  The company will soon be trading on Nasdaq thanks to a reverse takeover by Brag House Holdings (ticker: TBH), a college-focused online gaming business. Prior to this morning’s announcement, TBH had surged over 43% in the last two weeks. House of Doge is backed by corporate leaders in...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Bitcoin is the largest digital asset by market cap. Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Red Uptober? Crypto Liquidations Top $1 Billion as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana Erase Gains

    October got off to a hot start, but the historically strong month for Bitcoin and crypto prices—called "Uptober" by many investors—hit a roadblock Friday thanks to President Trump's trade war. And now prices are falling fast as liquidations pile up. More than $1 billion worth of crypto positions have been liquidated over the last 24 hours, per data from CoinGlass, as crypto prices plunge alongside stocks following Trump's Friday morning declaration that "massive" tariffs against China are in the...

    NewsMarkets
    2 min read
    Andrew Hayward, Sander Lutz
  • Polymarket. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Nobel Peace Prize Organizers Probing Potential Polymarket Insider Trades

    The organizers of the Nobel Peace Prize are investigating whether insiders used privileged information about this year’s winner to profit on crypto prediction market Polymarket, according to local reports. Roughly 11 hours before the closely watched award was given to Venezuelan resistance leader Maria Corina Machado this morning, the odds of her victory surged from near-zero to over 70% on Polymarket.  The market on this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner has accumulated over $21.4 million in trad...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz

  • English Man Gets Prison Time After Spending Covid Loan on Crypto and Gambling

    The head of a rural English glass-fitting company has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison, after illegally using a Covid-19-era loan from the government on gambling and crypto. Haralambos Ioannou, of Cow Lane, Edlesborough, was sentenced this week to 22 months in custody and 150 hours of unpaid labor for illegally securing two £50,000 (about $66,500) Covid Bounce Back loans from the British government, and then using the second loan for personal expenditures. During Covid, businesses we...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Coins. Photo: Shutterstock

    Monad Teases Airdrop as Ethereum, Solana Rival Nears Long-Awaited Network Launch

    The first step of Monad’s long-awaited token airdrop is finally arriving next week, the project announced Thursday. The Monad airdrop claim portal will open for users on Tuesday. The project has not yet revealed details about eligibility requirements for receiving allocations of the Monad token, MON, nor has it unveiled information about the token’s supply or planned release schedule. The much-hyped Ethereum and Solana competitor is also widely expected to launch its mainnet in tandem with the M...

    NewsCoins
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Coinbase flag. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Coinbase Debuts Crypto Staking in New York, Citing Deal With State Regulators

    Coinbase announced Wednesday it has begun offering crypto staking services in New York, after years of carving the state out of its lucrative yield programs due to regulators’ objections. New Yorkers can now earn yield by staking deposits of Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, Cardano, Avalanche, Polygona, and Polkadot on Coinbase. The most high-paying of those programs offers an estimated APY of over 16% on staked Cosmos. The company’s Ethereum staking program, by far its most popular, earns an estimated...

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

    Trump Fired Her From the FTC. Now Her Husband’s Crypto Bill Could Suffer

    He’s a top crypto lobbyist working to pass a White House-backed crypto bill. She’s a Democratic FTC commissioner who President Donald Trump unceremoniously fired earlier this year.  Meet the Slaughters: a Washington couple whose recent trials underscore the delicate alliances, and shattered precedents, that have come to define Trump’s second term in office.   Rebecca Slaughter sued the Trump administration earlier this year over her firing, which a D.C. federal court found in July to be unconsti...

    Deep DivesLong Reads
    7 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Yuga Labs is the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection. Image: Shutterstock

    Bored Ape NFTs Are Not Securities, Court Rules in Landmark Decision

    A federal judge in California has tossed out a class-action lawsuit against Yuga Labs, creator of the once-dominant Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, ruling that the digital collectibles cannot be considered securities.   The Los Angeles-based judge, Fernando M. Olguin—who was appointed to the bench in 2013 by former president Barack Obama—ruled Thursday that Bored Ape NFTs fail to meet several criteria of the test used to determine the security status of financial transactions. Olguin ruled...

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

    Senator Accuses Crypto Billionaire of Dodging Puerto Rico Tax Evasion Investigation

    The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee has accused a prominent crypto investor of refusing to cooperate with an investigation into an alleged billion-dollar tax evasion scheme running through one of the digital asset community’s most popular enclaves: Puerto Rico.  Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) first opened an investigation into the finances of Pantera Capital founder Dan Morehead in January, as part of a broader inquiry into how “ultra-high net worth” Americans have used Puerto Rican residenc...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
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