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Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), has donated over half a million dollars to a charity that looks after the welfare of animals. What Happened: In an X post on Thursday, Buterin revealed sending 200 Ether, worth $524,320, to Effective Altruism Fund's Animal Welfare Fund. This stash was obtained after selling all the “animal coins” that were sent to his wallets over the past year. Don't Miss: According to Cathie Wood, holding 6 Ethereum (ETH) could make you a millionaire,

Former President Donald Trump owns more than $1 million worth of cryptocurrency and up to $250,000 in gold bars along with the portfolio of golf courses and real estate properties that have made him a billionaire, according to newly released financial disclosures. The details come from documents filed by Trump as part of his Republican presidential bid that were released Thursday night. The more than 200 pages of paperwork give a limited picture of the real estate developer-turned reality TV star-turned-president's money and investments.

Last week, crypto educational gaming startup PiP World announced acquired a Roblox stock-trading game called StockRise, which raised some eyebrows. Why would a crypto company buy a user-created game on a platform largely populated by kids and teens? Roblox allows users to create their own games and worlds that anyone can explore and play in. Within the curated “learn and explore” section of the game, StockRise sits as the only financial educational experience. As such, the world has garnered ove...

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. It was a quiet week in the crypto sphere. Even so, "quiet" in crypto is still not for the faint of heart. Bitcoin was at one point trading for above $60,000 again on Monday, but things took a turn for the worse and by Thursday it had—seemingly unexplainedly—crashed to as low as $57,787. It rolled into the weekend at $59,131 per coin, a seven-day dip of 2% and more than 8% below this time last month. It still has a long way to go before it gets as hi...

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Last October's publication of the "BitVM" paradigm inspired a wave of projects aiming to build layer-2 networks and protocols secured by the largest and oldest blockchain. The...

The total market cap of the fourteen publicly listed mining stocks the bank tracks fell 18% since the end of last month, the report said.