XRP's push toward $1.25 ran into the same problem that has capped every rally since the spring selloff: sellers waiting overhead. After briefly trading above $1.22, the token lost the $1.20 level on heavy volume and spe…
Any recovery in the crypto market is likely to take longer than traders expect because Wall Street investors and advisory firms are now focusing on real-world applications, such as tokenization, and artificial intellige…
Kentucky's attorney general has sued leading prediction market firms Kalshi and Polymarket, accusing them of offering illegal sports betting without a license, adding its name to the growing list of states opposing the …
When Botanix announced last week that it would be winding down operations, the Bitcoin layer-2 project did not try to sugarcoat its message.
The Federal Reserve left its benchmark fed funds rate range unchanged at 3.50%-3.75% on Wednesday, a move markets had expected nearly unanimously.
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Moody's Ratings is rolling out its credit ratings to Solana (SOL), allowing issuers of tokenized bonds and other fixed-income securities to embed the firm's assessments directly into blockchain-based assets.
Fidelity Investments is the latest Wall Street firm seeking a role in one of the fastest-growing corners of digital assets: managing the reserves that back stablecoins.
The crypto industry is pushing back against a new tax law in the state of Illinois that enacts a 0.2% tax on businesses transacting or storing crypto for customers in the state, but it may be too late to change it in th…
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Coinbase's (COIN) latest product launch event may not have changed Wall Street's near-term earnings forecasts, but it reinforced a growing belief among analysts that the crypto exchange is steadily transforming itself i…
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, whose net worth is estimated at roughly $5 billion, is a bitcoin maximalist.
The crypto sector has been plagued by cybersecurity issues for years. Malicious actors, particularly North Korea’s Lazarus Group, have stolen more than $2.2 billion since 2022, prompting the industry to triple its numbe…
That amount is roughly 80% of the $10.6 billion worth of options expiring on June 26, according to data source Deribit. These dollar figures represent notional open interest, or the dollar value of the number of active …
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is heading the central bank's two-day policy meeting, concluding this afternoon, with investors looking beyond the interest-rate decision itself for clues about how he plans to reshape …
SpaceX (SPCX) has climbed more than 40% since its June 12 debut to a roughly $2.5 trillion market value, making it the sixth-largest company in the world and worth nearly twice the entire bitcoin market.
The largest cryptocurrency pulled back below $65,000 after trading near $67,000 just a day earlier, CoinDesk data show. The broader market CoinDesk 20 Index (CD200) has lost 1.2% since midnight UTC, with all but four to…
With 60% of stablecoin payments flowing through a fragmented Asian corridor, new backend middleware lets autonomous software move capital without human steps.
As the deadline looms for crypto companies to obtain licenses in Europe, BitGo (BTGO) is offering firms an easier transition to Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) compliance, the listed technology firm said on Wednesday.
If you're only looking at the dollar price of your portfolio, you may be missing part of the picture, which is significantly shaped by money supply growth.
Bitcoin is trading flat while the rest of the crypto market showing signs of a capital rotation.
More than any other congressional race this year, the crypto sector's campaign-funding operations dumped massive cash into Barry Moore's Alabama Senate bid, with the leading political action committee alone spending mor…
Bitcoin's risk-adjusted return has fallen to a level that has marked every bear-market bottom of the past decade, the latest on-chain reading to point toward accumulation rather than more downside.
