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Coinbase (COIN) said it plans to introduce tokenized stocks backed one-for-one by underlying U.S. equities, joining the growing competition among crypto firms and traditional financial companies to br…
Ripple, the blockchain firm closely associated with the XRP Ledger (XRP) network, invested in African payments company Flutterwave as part of its Series E funding round, a deal centered on expanding t…
Ethereum developers are entering the final stretch of work on Glamsterdam, the network's next major upgrade, as teams begin testing a version of the fork that includes the planned protocol changes.
FIFA World Cup debutants Cabo Verde held favourites Spain to a goalless draw on Monday, creating an outsized win for punters in a match that started with 1:10 betting odds against the minnows.
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, may be unable to serve customers in Europe if its regulatory license application in Greece is turned down, as Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Opening for trade on Tuesday, BlackRock's newest bitcoin exchange-traded fund —the Bitcoin Premium Income Fund (BITA) — is less about market timing and more about meeting a growing range of investor n…
That's what the Silicon Valley startup incubator Y Combinator's AI agent, Locus Founder, launched Monday. All a user has to do is send a business idea via iMessage, SMS, or Telegram, and the AI takes …
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
Bitcoin climbed above $66,500 after the Bank of Japan raised interest rates, lifting the token about 1.5% in 24 hours.
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Investors have bought a net 259,298 BTC since June 5, paying between $59,000 and $67,000, according to Glassnode UTXO Realized Price Distribution data. Glassnode's Accumulation Trend Score by Wallet C…
The decision hit the wires around 3:19 UTC on June 16. The BOJ lifted its policy rate by 25 basis points to 1% from 0.75%, the highest level since 1995. The move aligned with market expectations but i…
The token changed hands at $65,845 on Tuesday, up 0.3% over 24 hours and 4.8% on the week, per CoinDesk data. It touched a 24-hour high of $67,217 before fading. Ether held up better, rising 2.8% on t…
XRP finally broke through the $1.20 level that had capped rallies for weeks, but buyers couldn't keep control of the move.
US spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $64 million on Monday, even as spot ETFs for ether, XRP, Solana and Hyperliquid all pulled in fresh cash. On the surface, that looks like a clean rotation out of bitcoi…
Bybit, one of the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, has launched options trading on Tether Gold (XAUT), a token that provides you ownership of real physical gold.
A key player on the fast-growing derivatives exchange Hyperliquid's private-company trading is shutting down, pointing to consolidation in one of the industry's hottest new markets.
Standard Chartered's head of digital assets research Geoffrey Kendrick says bitcoin
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
The crypto industry’s leading founders, CEOs and investors recently signed a single letter to Senate leaders with one request: do not weaken the Clarity Act's protections for software developers. Thes…
Kraken began offering regulated perpetual futures to U.S. customers, marking a significant step in bringing one of crypto's most popular trading products into the country after years of activity conce…
BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the largest Ethereum-focused treasury company, continued its purchase streak after raising fresh capital through a preferred stock sale.
"My instinct is we probably have bottomed at this point, maybe at the sixty K number, but nobody can say for sure," Armstrong said in a video posted on X on Monday. He added that he remains long bitco…
Strategy (MSTR) last week acquired 1,587 bitcoin for approximately $100 million, increasing its total holdings to 846,842 BTC, according to a Monday morning filing.