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Giuseppe Ciccomascolo is a financial journalist and cryptocurrency writer who covers digital assets, blockchain technology, and financial markets for Webopedia. He began his career as an investigative journalist in Italy, contributing to local and national newspapers and reporting on a range of financial sectors. After relocating to London, Giuseppe worked as an analyst for CapitalStructure, part of Fitch Solutions, before becoming a Senior Reporter at Alliance News. This experience gave him a strong grounding in financial analysis, company reporting, equities, and the forces influencing global markets. Giuseppe began covering cryptocurrency in 2017, producing news articles and documentaries examining Bitcoin and other emerging digital currencies. He later helped establish the educational academy for a cryptocurrency exchange platform, developing resources designed to improve users’ understanding of digital assets and trading. Throughout his career, Giuseppe’s reporting has appeared in publications and platforms including CCN, MSN, Yahoo Finance, MarketScreener, and Business2Community. Drawing on his background in investigative journalism, market analysis, and financial reporting, he helps Webopedia readers understand cryptocurrency developments within the wider context of traditional finance, regulation, technology, and global market trends.
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Bitcoin’s odds of reaching $130,000 by year-end are around 3% on Polymarket. That threshold exceeds the previous record near $126,000,...
Around 60% of tokenized equity trading volume occurs outside regular US market hours. Onchain equity products have surpassed 360, up...
Bitcoin is approaching the Nov.3 US midterm elections near $82,600, raising questions about whether historical market patterns could repeat. In...
USDsui’s circulation reached a record $80 million, up 21% over 90 days. Issued by Stripe-owned Bridge, the stablecoin supports Sui’s...
Citi says tokenization is moving beyond pilots into everyday institutional operations. The bank projects a $5.5 trillion tokenized financial asset...
Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet rejects claims that AI could cheaply break Bitcoin’s ECDSA cryptography within months. A broader breakthrough against...
Ethereum’s cumulative smart contract deployments rose approximately 20%, from 60 million in January to over 72 million by October 2026....
Gaming tokens are seeing selective rallies, with SAND gaining roughly 66.5% over seven days. Analsysts suggest short squeezes and rotation...
Bitcoin returned approximately 225% over three years, compared with 109% for the Nasdaq-100. Missing BTC’s five best days cuts its...
69.2% of retail accounts lost money, with combined losses of $338.9 million across roughly 2.9 million accounts. Accounts classified as...
MetaMask is investigating a security incident affecting part of its Ethereum staking infrastructure, prompting precautionary validator exits. User funds are...
Pay.io has launched a B2B crypto payment platform for iGaming operators, combining a gateway, administrative console, and player-facing checkout. The...
Curaçao’s gambling regulator confirmed unauthorized access to its licensing portal, but says it has not established the full scope of...
Tunica-Biloxi announced the first tribal prediction-market app powered by Kalshi, while other tribes challenge event contracts in court. A Wall...
Mike McGlone says the post-2020 trade of selling Treasuries to buy Bitcoin, gold and commodities may be reversing as the...
The Fed’s September projections put the median federal funds rate at 4.1% at the end of both 2026 and 2027....
Ant International, Visa and Mastercard will create common standards for identifying and monitoring AI payment agents. The interoperable framework could...
AUSTRAC removed 45 remittance and virtual asset businesses from its registers over the past year. The regulator targeted inactive, insolvent,...
CoinMarketCap’s Altcoin Season Index jumped 59% in seven days, signaling capital rotation from Bitcoin into altcoins. Bitcoin remains below $80,000...
Crypto platforms lost $3.63 billion across 245 security incidents between January 2025 and July 2026. Around 60% of compromised platforms...
Core Lightning urged node operators to install forthcoming security fixes immediately or take affected nodes offline if they cannot upgrade....
HMRC sent 81,172 tax warnings to crypto investors in 2025-26, almost three times the number recorded two years earlier. Selling...
On-chain tokenized equity trading reportedly reached a record $9 billion in 2026. Volume increased by 207% quarter over quarter and...
H100 acquired NSD AS and added 2,455.37 BTC, lifting its total treasury to 3,506.4 BTC. The transaction was an acquisition...
Backpack Securities has launched tokenized Take-Two Interactive shares on Solana through Sunrise. Each TTWO token represents 1:1-backed exposure to an...
MiCA’s July 1 deadline has forced unlicensed crypto platforms to wind down or transfer customers. Scammers are exploiting the migration...
Cloudflare Wallets let AI agents hold stablecoins, make payments, and receive funds without requiring a credit card or bank account....
Bitcoin remains trapped between major liquidation zones at $62,000 and $64,100, keeping the short-term outlook neutral. Strategy’s openness to selling...
Key Takeaways Cardano whales accumulated more than 240 million ADA over five days, helping fuel a price surge of up...
Key Takeaways Coinbase reported approximately $1.22 billion in second-quarter revenue, missing Wall Street expectations as transaction income fell 21%. The...
Key Takeaways Bitcoin stabilized near $64,000 after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates at 3.50%-3.75%, although three policymakers voted for...
Key Takeaways MoonPay’s new PayBox lets ChatGPT and Claude users move, trade, and spend crypto through natural language prompts. The...