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BlockFills and CoinDesk Indices Launch Options Market for CoinDesk 20 Index

The CoinDesk 20 Index gets an options market that will bring institutional liquidity to the index.

Jan 30 2025

Crypto Daybook Americas: Litecoin Leads on Optimistic ETF Signal as Market Rallies After Powell Talks

Your day-ahead look for Jan. 30, 2025

Jan 30 2025

World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Has Indirect Bitcoin Exposure of More Than $355M

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund saw a 153% year-over-year increase in indirect bitcoin exposure in ...

Jan 30 2025

DOGE Drops Below Uptrend Line, Signaling Possible End to Five-Month Rally

DOGE's price has lost key support levels this week, weakening the bullish case.

Jan 30 2025

Former Binance Labs Makes First Investment Following Zhao's Return: Report

YZI Labs, the rebranded Binance Labs, led a $16 million funding round into token airdrop startup Sig...

Jan 30 2025

M2 Money Supply Approaches All-Time High, Bullish Signal for Crypto: Van Straten

The U.S. M2 money supply continued to increase in December a bullish catalyst for risk-on assets.

Jan 30 2025

Crypto Exchanges Bitstamp, Crypto.com Suspend Some Stablecoin Services to Meet MiCA

From Jan. 31, Bitstamp and Crypto.com will no longer offer certain services from stablecoins, like T...

Jan 30 2025

Crypto Daybook Americas: Trump Exports Bitcoin Enthusiasm as Price Rebounds, Investors Eye FOMC

Your day-ahead look for Jan. 29, 2025

Jan 30 2025

Cardano Will Transition to Full Decentralized Governance After Wednesday's Hard Fork, Cardano Foundation Says

A hard fork is a non-backwards compatible change to the blockchain's programming.

Jan 30 2025

Crypto Accounting Platform Cryptio Raises $15M in Series A Extension

Existing investor Alven led the round and featured participation from new backers 1kx and Ledger Cat...

Jan 30 2025

Digital Currency Group Spins Off Crypto Mining Subsidiary Fortitude From Foundry

Fortitude Mining will produce bitcoin and other proof-of-work tokens.

Jan 30 2025

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: ICP Falls 3.2% as Index Trades Lower From Tuesday

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) joined Internet Computer (ICP) as an underperformer, declining 2.2%.

Jan 30 2025

Trump Media Starts New Fintech Platform Truth.Fi Focusing on Crypto, ETFs

Truth.Fi is the latest endeavor of Donald Trump-affiliated companies into the digital asset space af...

Jan 30 2025

How AI Agents and Crypto Will Revolutionize Commerce

The synergy between AI and decentralized protocols will be central to the transformation of commerce...

Jan 30 2025

Institutions Are Primed for MicroStrategy's Preferred Stock Sale, Say Analysts

A "near perfect" instrument is how Bitwise's Jeff Park described the new offering.

Jan 30 2025

Fairshake's Florida Wins Likely to Amp Up List of Crypto-Supported Allies in Congress

The crypto PAC's largesse in Florida special elections — replacing people Trump tapped for his adm...

Jan 30 2025

Why Web3 Doesn't Have More Users

Tools and better user experience are key if we want Web3 to see the fast growth we saw at the incept...

Jan 30 2025

Bitcoin Miner Riot Platforms Targeted by Second Activist Investor: Reuters

The move comes after another activist investor, Starboard, had taken a stake in the miner late last ...

Jan 30 2025

Bitcoin Market Projection for 2025

Despite potential near-term volatility and choppy price action, there is a strong bullish outlook fo...

Jan 30 2025

As Lutnick Faces U.S. Senate, Elizabeth Warren Scrutinizes His Tether Ties

Howard Lutnick, President Trump's pick to run the Department of Commerce, is probed by the senator o...

Jan 30 2025

Canary Capital's ETF Plans Took Shape Thanks to Trump

Opened last October by ex-Valkyrie founder and CEO Steven McClurg, Canary quickly filed back-to-back...

Jan 30 2025

Robinhood CEO Warns Lack of U.S. Regulation Stifles Security Tokenization Efforts

Vlad Tenev joined BlackRock CEO Larry Fink in calling for clear regulations for tokenized securities...

Jan 30 2025

Fed Holds Rates Steady, Takes Note of Elevated Inflation

Bitcoin initially fell on hawkish language in the Fed's policy statement, but later recovered.

Jan 30 2025

Sandboxes Are a Way Out of the Regulatory Sandstorm

How regulatory sandboxes can foster innovation, clarify regulations and balance accountability in th...

Jan 30 2025

Tesla Marked Up Bitcoin Holdings Valuation in Q4, Booking a $600M Gain

New FASB rules allow for corporate bitcoin owners to mark those assets to market.

Jan 30 2025

Cardano’s Plomin Hard Fork Goes Live, Ushering in On-Chain Governance

Plomin comes just four months after Cardano’s Chang hard fork, which put many of the mechanisms in...

Jan 30 2025

The Dawn of PolicyFi

Memecoins are a dynamic capital formation technology with implications for policy making and politic...

Jan 30 2025

The Protocol: Movement Labs Develops Dev Mainnet

Also: SSV DAO Unveils “SSV 2.0”; Cardano Hard Fork

Jan 30 2025

Panic at the crypto

Cryptocurrencies have taken another beating this week. Globe columnist Tim Kiladze makes sense of th...

Jan 01 2025

$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups | TechCrunch

This morning on Equity, not only do we have good news for crypto founders, we're also digging into A...

Jan 01 2025

Lab owner pleads guilty to faking COVID test results during pandemic

Ill-gotten millions bought a Bentley, Lamborghini, Tesla X, and crypto, among other things.

Jan 01 2025

US Crypto Regulation To Lead Global Revival in 2025: Franklin Templeton

Franklin Templeton predicts 2025 will be a transformative year for crypto, with regulatory clarity a...

Jan 01 2025

MiCA Final Phase Goes Live: Key Impacts on Europe’s Crypto Industry

The final phase of Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) crypto regulations came into force on Dec. 30 a...

Jan 01 2025

Ramzan Kadyrov Orders ‘Terrorist’ Label for Illegal Crypto Miners in Chechnya

Chechnya treats illegal crypto mining as terrorism, while Russia expands its ban on mining and intro...

Jan 01 2025

Crypto’s $205 Billion Stablecoin Market Set to Go Mainstream

While Bitcoin’s surge above $100,000 captivated the headlines in 2024, many financial firms were m...

Jan 01 2025

Gox Moves $2.8B in BTC Amid Bitcoin's Surge

Defunct exchange Mt. Gox moves billions in BTC to an unknown address, raising alarm on crypto social...

Dec 06 2024

Bitcoin Buying Pressure as BTC Sets New Record

Spot BTC ETFs in the U.S. notched up $533 million in net inflows on Wednesday, data shows, with Blac...

Dec 06 2024

Dogecoin Mining 3 Times More Profitable

BIT Mining has made a whopping $100 million worth of DOGE on its Dogecoin mining operations, per a r...

Dec 06 2024

Market Makers May Keep Bitcoin Around $100K

The hedging activity of options market makers may ensure BTC price stability amid risks from elevate...

Dec 06 2024

USDC Issuer Circle Cuts 'Less Than 6%' of Jobs Following Operations Review

The job cuts amount to about 50 people, based on June employment numbers.

Dec 06 2024

Bitcoin Hits Milestone vs. Gold as Cycle Pattern Flags $120K by Year-End: Van Straten

The market price of bitcoin, priced in gold hit an all-time high of 39 ounces.

Dec 06 2024

Crypto Daybook Americas: Bitcoin's $100K+ Run Is Just Early Days

Your day-ahead look for Dec. 5, 2024

Dec 06 2024

U.S. Crypto Stocks Surge in Pre-Market Trading as Bitcoin Tops $100K

MARA Holdings climbed on completing an $850 million offering of a zero-coupon convertible senior not...

Dec 06 2024

Chainalysis Taps Founder Jonathan Levin as CEO

The crypto analytics company's former leader, Michael Gronager, went on leave in late September.

Dec 06 2024

Corporate Bitcoin Treasuries Are All the Rage. Now XRP?

Worksport, a Nasdaq-listed manufacturer of covers for pickup trucks, has decided to not only buy bit...

Dec 06 2024

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: RENDER Gains 14.7% as Index Moves Higher

Litecoin joined Render as a top performer, gaining 9.7%.

Dec 06 2024

MicroStrategy Leveraged ETFs' Impact on Crypto Markets Is Growing: JPMorgan

Leveraged MicroStrategy ETFs attracted $3.4 billion of inflows in November, the report said.

Dec 06 2024

Everyone Wants a Piece of the Bitcoin Pie, Now the AI Bots Are Coming for It Too

AI-focused Ethereum layer-2 Mode is the latest network to bridge to Bitcoin in an attempt to get acc...

Dec 06 2024

Bitcoin at $100K: The Financial World Reacts

After BTC hit $100,000, growing from zero to $2 trillion in a decade and a half, CoinDesk rounded up...

Dec 06 2024

Circle Claims Bragging Rights of USDC Becoming First Regulated Stablecoin in Canada

Pressure mounts on crypto exchanges operating in the country to comply with tighter rules to list st...

Dec 06 2024