Decrypt Crypto News Scraper 📰🔍

Overview

This Apify actor allows you to efficiently scrape the latest crypto news articles from Decrypt. It extracts comprehensive data from Decrypt's news section, including article content, category, author information, and publication dates.

Features 🛠️

The Decrypt Crypto News Scraper extracts the following fields:

Article Information 📊

• title: The headline of the news article.
• category: The category or topic of the article (e.g., DeFi, Bitcoin, NFTs).
• link: Direct URL to the full article on Decrypt.
• date: Publication date in datetime format.
• content: The full text content of the article.
• author: The author who wrote the article.

Input Parameters ⚙️

• number_of_articles: Number of articles to scrape. Max: 30 per run.

Output Format 📂

The data will be output as a JSON file with the fields described above. Here's an example:

{
  "title": "'Public Good': Wyoming Plots August Debut for WYST Stablecoin",
  "category": "Law and Order",
  "link": "https://decrypt.co/326331/wyoming-plots-august-debut-wyst-state-stablecoin",
  "date": "Jun 21, 2025",
  "content": "In brief\nWyoming lawmakers have been talking about introducing a stablecoin since 2022.\nThe asset, WYST, is now targeted to launch on August 20 during the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium.\nThis week, the U.S. Senate passed the GENIUS Act, which would create a legal framework for stablecoins.\n\nThe Cowboy State moved one step closer to issuing its own stablecoin.\n\nThe state-backed Wyoming Stable Token Commission said this week that the WYST cryptocurrency's debut will likely occur on August 20 at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium in Jackson. \n\nWyoming lawmakers have been planning a stablecoin for its citizens since 2022. This spring, lawmakers announced that it was targeted to launch in July and could run across several major crypto networks, including Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and Ethereum scaling networks Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism.\n\n\"WYST is a public good,\" Anthony Apollo, executive director of Wyoming's Stable Token Commission, told Decrypt.\n\n\"Our statute dictates that the interest earned on the reserves backing the token will get swept into the School Foundation Fund on a quarterly basis,\" he added, referring to the yield the stablecoins produce.\n\nHe said that along with the state's collaboration with crypto interoperability protocol LayerZero, the stablecoin may launch on several networks simultaneously.\n\nStablecoins are cryptocurrencies designed to be non-volatile, and are typically pegged to the value of US dollars. \n\nPrivate companies typically issue such tokens, which have traditionally been used by traders to enter and exit transactions on digital asset exchanges, and run on a number of major crypto networks, or blockchains. \n\nNow, banks, major companies—including Meta and Amazon, reportedly—and U.S. states are all interested in issuing the crypto tokens, which are supposed to speed up payments using blockchain technology. \n\nWyoming's announcement comes just a few days after the U.S. Senate passed the GENIUS Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for the token and underscores the growing importance of these tokens.\n\nElizabeth Warren, Consumer Groups Slam Walmart and Amazon Stablecoin Plans\n\nSen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and leading consumer advocacy groups denounced a report Friday that Amazon and Walmart are considering issuing their own stablecoins, framing such developments as an unacceptable outcome of pending stablecoin legislation in the Senate. “Let’s not forget the GENIUS Act has a major loophole allowing Big Tech companies and major retailers to issue their own private currencies structured as stablecoins,” Warren said Friday in a statement shared with Decrypt. “If Congress...\n\nNews\nLaw And Order\n4 min read\nSander Lutz\nJun 13, 2025\n\nThe House of Representatives is now weighing the legislation with President Donald Trump urging passage.\n\nWyoming has been at the forefront of states supporting more crypto-friendly regulation and the widening use of digital assets. Prominent American crypto exchange Kraken on Friday announced that it was relocating its headquarters to Wyoming capital Cheyenne, acknowledging the state as a \"a pioneer in crypto regulation.\"\n\n",
  "author": "Mat Di Salvo"
}

Use Cases 🌟

• News Monitoring: Stay updated with the latest cryptocurrency and blockchain news.
• Content Aggregation: Collect articles for research, analysis, or content curation.
• Market Intelligence: Track news sentiment and trends in the crypto space.
• Research: Gather data for academic or business research on cryptocurrency markets.