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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.
Read the recent headlines about trading platform Robinhood’s c-suite departure and layoffs, or BitGo’s 15% workforce reduction, and you’ll see that things are looking grim in the world of crypto investing. One outlet re…
Strategy's (MSTR) enterprise multiple to net asset value (mNAV) has officially fallen below 1.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said he remains bullish on bitcoin but that Michael Saylor's approach to funding bitcoin purchases has damaged the broader crypto market, in a CNBC interview on Friday, as the preferred stoc…
U.S. Representative Maxine Waters may soon return to the helm of the House Financial Services Committee if Democrats perform as expected in the November elections, and she's asking that the Department of Labor back away…
Latest developments: Teng says Virtuals has expanded beyond gaming-focused AI agents and is now building infrastructure for what it calls an “agent society.”
Latest developments: The Alliance to End Human Trafficking is urging lawmakers to revisit Section 604 of the Clarity Act, arguing the provision could make it harder to hold some crypto platform developers accountable wh…
Aave founder Stani Kulechov pushed back in an X post against the suggestion that Aave assets could be sold at a steep discount. He reiterated that all protocol revenue — currently running at an annualized $134 million, …
Securitize, one of the largest providers of tokenization infrastructure for Wall Street, expects to raise about $400 million as it prepares to go public through a merger with a Cantor Fitzgerald-backed special purpose a…
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
The largest cryptocurrency was recently trading near $59,700, having fallen as low as $58,100.
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by trading volume, told customers in the European Union (EU) it is suspending some services because it will not have a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license in place by Jul…
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Sharplink (SBET) received 5,000 ether (ETH) worth about $7.85 million on Thursday, its first ether inflow in eight months, according to Arkham data showing the coins arriving from crypto brokerage FalconX.
The Tokyo-based bank first floated the idea at the start of last month, framing it as part of a broader strategy to expand its crypto business ahead of potential regulatory developments in Japan. It bought crypto exchan…
Strategy (MSTR) is sitting on one of the largest unrealized losses in corporate history and it’s bigger than some of crypto’s most prominent projects.
Grant Cardone, CEO of Cardone Capital, used this week's crypto slide to restate the case for his bitcoin-and-property model, saying the structure is designed to keep buying as prices fall.
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 digital dollars.
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 the company is abou…
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Coinbase-backed Ethereum layer-2 network Base resumed block production Thursday after a disruption of roughly two hours that halted the blockchain.
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, although Sullivan caution…
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
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