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The Bank of Japan is widely expected to raise its benchmark interest rate to 1% from 0.75% on Tuesday, bringing it to its highest level since 1995. That may sound like a routine policy decision from a central bank on th…
Bitcoin climbed to its highest level in nearly two weeks after the US and Iran reached a deal to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, removing the energy-supply fear that had weighed on markets for months.
The US and Iran said they reached an interim agreement to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with the deal to be signed in Switzerland on Friday.
The pattern works like this. Draw Fibonacci retracements from near zero – BTC began trading at $0.003 in February 2010 – to bull market peaks reached in June 2011, November 2013, December 2017, and November 2021.
Technically speaking, summer hasn't started yet and won't for another week. But it's over 90°F in New York, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to work through crypto tax legislation, the Commodity Futures…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing one of the most consequential of Chairman Paul Atkins' crypto policies, a new approach that grants some regulatory leeway to those seeking to tokenize securities,…
Stablecoins are probably crypto’s clearest success story, and rightly so. They became the industry’s monetary primitive; the dollar layer for trading, collateral, payments and settlement.
The market for tokenized assets is growing quickly, but John Hoffman thinks the biggest wave of demand hasn't arrived yet: artificial intelligence.
Ethereum's institutional adoption story may finally be moving beyond theory and into practice, according to Vivek Raman, founder of Etherealize, a company with the stated goal of bringing Ethereum to Wall Street.
SpaceX's Nasdaq debut on Friday did something quieter than the record $75 billion raise. It puts the largest bitcoin position ever attached to an IPO onto public markets, and under a framing that corporate America has n…
The race to get into the SpaceX IPO left many crypto investors on the sidelines.
A Coinbase-convened advisory board of some of the most prominent cryptographers in the world has laid out what Bitcoin should do about the millions of coins a future quantum computer could steal, and on the hardest ques…
The cryptocurrency market reached its definitive bottom for the currency cycle, Standard Chartered Analyst Geoffrey Kendrick said in a note on Friday.
Latest developments: Crypto markets are under pressure as Bitcoin sits around $60,000 and ETF outflows continue.
SpaceX shares opened at $150 on Friday before rising to $162, marking a strong start to one of the most closely watched stock market debuts in recent years.
Latest developments: VanEck recently launched the first U.S. spot BNB ETF, trading under the ticker VBNB on Nasdaq.
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
Someone routed $120 million in stablecoins through a chain of swaps this week, and a sudden jump in the Monero price made it visible.
Social chatter support for XRP has dropped to levels not seen since October, a point that has previously been a cue for traders looking to make short-term bullish bets on the Ripple-linked token.
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The Nasdaq-100 rebalance takes effect on June 22, with CoreWeave (CRWV) and Nebius Group (NBIS) among the five companies being added in the index's quarterly reshuffle.
Blockchain is no longer just a story of Wall Street banks and brokers leveraging the technology to optimize finance. Now, corporates are embracing distributed ledger to streamline business operations.
The risk-off mood that hammered crypto all week is reversing. Bitcoin is back in the green, and the trigger was a sudden de-escalation in the Iran war.
XRP bounced sharply from last week's selloff, reclaiming $1.14 on its strongest volume in weeks. Buyers pushed the token through resistance near $1.12 and kept buying into the close, a change from the short-lived reboun…
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