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Asset manager, Invesco is preparing to launch a tokenized fund to serve the fast-growing stablecoin market, the latest sign that traditional asset managers are racing to manage the reserves backing di…
The largest cryptocurrency has since bounced to $59,400, down 2.5% over the past 24 hours. The selloff spread across the broader crypto market. Ether (ETH) dropped to around $1,550, down 5.5%, while s…
The forecast, made in Chinese on X, puts the low some 30% below bitcoin's current level near $60,700, and rests less on the cryptocurrency's performance than on Strategy, the largest corporate holder …
In a recent report, the hedge fund explained that four proprietary onchain signals have aligned only five times during bitcoin's 15-year history. Each previous occurrence marked a cycle bottom, althou…
Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, has taken legal action against PowerTrade, a high-leverage derivatives platform based in the U.A.E., claiming the firm’s founders misappr…
Bitcoin holder Strategy Inc.’s perpetual preferred stock, known as STRC or “Stretch,” is showing an increasingly tight link to bitcoin’s
Crypto exchange Kraken, part of Payward Inc., is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave at a $385 million valuation, according to three people with knowledge of …
Traders may be panicking about Strategy's (MSTR) stock falling, 8% lower at of writing on Thursday at $86, amid concerns about its ability to meet dividend obligations, but the bigger issue is not if …
Uniswap (UNI) and Spark are betting that as the number of stablecoins grow, the market will need the equivalent of a foreign-exchange network to move liquidity between issuers.
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Japanese financial group SBI will acquire crypto exchange Bitbank for Â¥46.7 billion ($289 million). After the transaction closes, Bitbank will become an SBI subsidiary, and the combined group’s crypt…
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
The largest cryptocurrency remains at a critical level in terms of broader market structure. A potential break lower in price could trigger a slide to around $52,000. For now, it appears to have weath…
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Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs said CoinEx served as a gateway for the crypto sector in Iran, having traced more than $3.84 billion in flows between the exchange and sanctioned Iranian entities…
Boston-based stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Financial announced a partnership on Thursday with Japanese financial conglomerate Nomura Holdings to launch a digital asset settlement business. The fir…
How does a high-profile crypto founder recover his reputation after serving prison time? Changpeng "CZ" Zhao's answer: He doesn't have to.
The largest cryptocurrency has tested the $60,000 level repeatedly since February, briefly falling below it several times. Four months ago, the supply in loss peaked at 9.8 million BTC. It climbed to …
Computer memory chipmaker Micron Technology (MU) delivered blowout Q3 earnings on Wednesday, lifting the entire AI memory sector, AI-related stocks and even giving crypto a slight boost.
The max pain level for this expiry stands at $72,000, significantly above current spot prices of around $61,700. On Friday at 8:00 ET, options worth $10 billion will expire on Deribit, the world's lar…
XRP lost $1.0850 during Tuesday’s selloff, then failed to win it back. That leaves the token sitting near the lower end of its June range, with buyers still defending the $1.05-$1.07 area but no longe…
Bitcoin dropped to $59,175 overnight, its lowest point since early June, before recovering to about $61,500 by Thursday morning, per CoinDesk data. Nearly $1 billion worth of futures positions were li…
That level is $59,000, which has emerged as strong support, capping downside moves in recent days.
Ripple's dollar-backed stablecoin RLUSD is now greenlit for usage in Japan after clearing the country's financial regulator, giving the token entry into one of Asia's most tightly regulated crypto mar…