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BNY, the world's largest custody bank overseeing $59 trillion in assets, is deepening its ties with Circle (CRCL) as the Wall Street bank ramps up its stablecoin services.
The European Union's (EU) July 1 Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) deadline could leave more than 10 million users looking for a new platform, Alex Fazel, chief partnership officer at Swissborg, told CoinDesk in an interv…
Tracking funds on a blockchain has typically required specialized tools, and the process can sometimes be opaque, but crypto analytics firm Chainalysis is taking a swing at solving that problem.
The White House has invited law enforcement organizations objecting to the language of the U.S. Senate's crypto market structure bill to sit down for a meeting on Monday, according to a person briefed on the plan, which…
Crypto projects losing millions due to exploits and hacks are becoming almost daily headlines. So much so that some of this news had almost become background noise.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the largest Ethereum treasury company, bought 27,084 ether (ETH) last week, extending its accumulation streak despite another slide in crypto prices.
Ripple is pushing to add a lending layer to the XRP Ledger, the blockchain behind XRP, in a bid to let institutions borrow against assets they hold onchain rather than just issue and move them.
The world's largest publicly traded company holding bitcoin, Strategy (MSTR), has authorized a new bitcoin monetization program, giving the company the flexibility to sell a portion of its bitcoin holdings to strengthen…
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Volatility indexes offered a rare positive signal as BVIV dropped to 47%, pausing its two-week climb and suggesting traders are betting on calmer conditions, though derivatives data across most top-25 tokens indicate be…
The rapid consolidation of the prediction market technology stack is raising the odds of a new wave of mergers and acquisitions across sports betting and financial markets, according to Wall Street broker Bernstein.
Ethena said its yield-generating "synthetic dollar" token will be integrated into BlackRock's (BLK) Aladdin investment management platform as the crypto protocol is deepening its relationship with traditional finance fi…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published the first part of a deep technical series on obfuscation, calling it the most powerful idea in cryptography while making clear it is nowhere near ready to use.
Strategy (MSTR) unveiled a new Digital Credit Capital Framework on Monday, introducing a series of capital management initiatives designed to strengthen its preferred securities, preserve long term bitcoin exposure, and…
*** NOT FOR PUBLICATION - EMBARGOED TILL 7.30AM ET JUNE 29 *** FundBank Group, an institutional banking provider focused on asset managers and funds, has rebranded as IRACE Digital and acquired Cayman Islands-based Tene…
Crypto opened Monday flat. Bitcoin traded near $59,700, down 0.3% on the day and 6.8% on the week, as a de-escalation in the U.S.-Iran conflict lifted equity futures but left digital assets unmoved, per CoinDesk data.
South Korea's two largest chipmakers are committing about $518 billion to new factories to meet demand for artificial-intelligence chips in a further sign of just how much capital AI is drawing in from everywhere else, …
European cryptocurrency firms that have failed to obtain a Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) license face a deadline this week that could wipe out a large proportion of the market.
Crypto Week Ahead is a comprehensive list of what's coming up in the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as the major macroeconomic events that will influence digital asset markets.
Michael Saylor shared a StrategyTracker chart on X this Sunday showing Strategy holds 847,363 bitcoin valued at $50.88 billion as of June 28, 2026, with 113 purchase events and an average cost basis of $75,653 per BTC.
SBI Holdings' (8473) $289 million acquisition of Japanese crypto exchange Bitbank is its biggest consolidation move yet, positioning the financial group to dominate the country's regulated digital-asset market as new ru…
The bitcoin bottom is in, said Samson Mow in an X post on Sunday, arguing that the traditional four-year halving cycle has accelerated.
The biggest investment opportunities in blockchain may no longer be in crypto itself, but in how the technology can finance capital-intensive industries such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and energy.
Bitcoin dipped below $60,000 over the weekend, trading around $59,940 on Sunday, down 0.6% over 24 hours and nearly 7% on the week, per CoinDesk data, as a quarter of selling neared its final days.
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