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The Bank of Japan is widely expected to raise its benchmark interest rate to 1% from 0.75% on Tuesday, bringing it to its highest level since 1995. That may sound like a routine policy decision from a…
Bitcoin climbed to its highest level in nearly two weeks after the US and Iran reached a deal to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, removing the energy-supply fear that had weighed on ma…
Copper climbed as much as 1.4% after the US and Iran announced an interim deal to halt the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The US and Iran said they reached an interim agreement to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with the deal to be signed in Switzerland on Friday.
Aerodrome, the largest decentralized exchange (DEX) on Coinbase's Base network, is preparing for what its developers believe could be the next evolution of onchain markets.
The pattern works like this. Draw Fibonacci retracements from near zero – BTC began trading at $0.003 in February 2010 – to bull market peaks reached in June 2011, November 2013, December 2017, and No…
Technically speaking, summer hasn't started yet and won't for another week. But it's over 90°F in New York, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to work through crypto tax legislation, th…
A significant transformation is currently underway across the established cryptocurrency market. The top crypto exchanges are morphing into multi-asset financial platforms, breaking down the tradition…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing one of the most consequential of Chairman Paul Atkins' crypto policies, a new approach that grants some regulatory leeway to those seeking to t…
The newest AI model from Anthropic, which gives users access to stronger, faster reasoning and coding capabilities, lands in a crypto market beset by security problems and could well exacerbate them.
Stablecoins are probably crypto’s clearest success story, and rightly so. They became the industry’s monetary primitive; the dollar layer for trading, collateral, payments and settlement.
SpaceX's Nasdaq debut on Friday did something quieter than the record $75 billion raise. It puts the largest bitcoin position ever attached to an IPO onto public markets, and under a framing that corp…
Bitcoin climbed above $64,000 on Saturday, reaching an intraday high of more than $64,200. The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is up more than 1% over the past 24 hours and is now up o…
The market for tokenized assets is growing quickly, but John Hoffman thinks the biggest wave of demand hasn't arrived yet: artificial intelligence.
The rollout of regulated perpetual futures in the U.S. could follow a familiar path to the one taken by spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in seeking mass adoption.
For years, crypto's ideological center of gravity has been pulled toward decentralization.
Michael Saylor, co-founder of Strategy, the world's largest publicly listed bitcoin holder, has a new term for Wall Street's most elite stocks and a congratulatory message for Elon Musk.
A Coinbase-convened advisory board of some of the most prominent cryptographers in the world has laid out what Bitcoin should do about the millions of coins a future quantum computer could steal, and …
The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to shut down its two most capable AI models on Friday, and the pre-IPO market for Anthropic shares sold off immediately.
The largest crypto opened near $73,000 last Sunday, slid below $60,000 for the first time since the U.S. election in November 2024, and recovered to about $63,500 by Saturday, according to CoinDesk da…
The race to get into the SpaceX IPO left many crypto investors on the sidelines.
The cryptocurrency market reached its definitive bottom for the currency cycle, Standard Chartered Analyst Geoffrey Kendrick said in a note on Friday.
Latest developments: Kalshi’s launch of CFTC-regulated crypto perpetuals has reignited a long-running debate over financial market definitions.
Latest developments: Crypto markets are under pressure as Bitcoin sits around $60,000 and ETF outflows continue.