Vicky Ge Huang

President-elect Donald Trump and incoming first lady Melania Trump have begun selling new cryptocurrencies. Named $TRUMP and $MELANIA, the projects are meme coins, a type of crypto whose value is

Stablecoin company Circle Internet Group has bought Hashnote, the operator of a blockchain-based money-market fund with nearly $1.3 billion in assets. Circle said it will integrate Hashnote's fund, known as US Yield Coin, with its $49 billion stablecoin, USD Coin.Crypto traders will be able to fl

Industry players worry the success of the president’s meme coin will undermine the credibility they have worked hard to cultivate.

Critics warn that the token erodes any boundaries between the president's political and business interests.

President Trump’s meme-coin launch has taken the crypto world on a wild ride. Wall Street is eager to cash in on the trading frenzy. Asset managers have made at least 36 new filings to launch exchange-traded funds rel

Michael Saylor and his company MicroStrategy are making a massive bet on bitcoin. It funded those purchases partly by selling convertible bonds—debt that can eventually be converted into shares, if the stock price rises to a specified level. Last year alone, MicroStrategy issued $6.2 billion of convertible debt—the most ever issued by a single company in a calendar year, according to Bank of America.

Ivanka Trump said Thursday that her name has been misused to promote a fake cryptocurrency and her legal team will take action to stop the unauthorized use. “This fake coin risks deceiving consumers and defrauding them of their hard-earned money, and the unauthorized use of my name and likeness is