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The Iranian regime has been increasingly using cryptocurrency over the last few years to facilitate cross border oil tra...… See More

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There’s a wide gap between how experts are viewing Friday’s inflation data and how the bitcoin market is pricing in the ...… See More

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Federal lawsuit argues event contracts are swaps under U.S. law, not state-level gaming law, deepening a split with stat...… See More

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Elevated volume and modest institutional buying fail to support price, with sellers continuing to dominate near resistan...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Analysts say a sustained 15%–16% decline in crude could revive Fed rate cut bets, sending BTC higher.

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Tehran says three clauses of the ceasefire have been breached, oil is rebounding toward $97, and the Strait of Hormuz re...… See More

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Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun demos a prototype that could prevent millions of wallets from being frozen under a...… See More

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Morgan Stanley’s low-fee bitcoin ETF debuted with strong early trading, signaling demand as competition shifts to cost a...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Speaking at a Mizuho event, the Strategy (MSTR) executive chairman said the formation of banking credit pairing with dig...… See More

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The settlement avoids a trial and ends the dispute over the RR/BAYC NFTs, which claimed to parody Bored Ape Yacht Club, ...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Draft bill outlines comprehensive framework for digital assets, including licensing, issuance and oversight

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Also: North Korea’s 6-month plot with Drift, Solana Foundation’s new ad and Alchemy AI.

CoinDesk 2 months ago

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Bob Williams covers how stricter crypto regulations in Asia are putti...… See More

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The U.S. is pitching new rules for stablecoin issuers to treat them like every other financial firm that must maintain a...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Leveraged bullish bitcoin positions remain near multi-year highs as bitcoin rebounds, hinting at underlying market uncer...… See More

Finbold 2 months ago

Chinese billionaire Jiang Zhuoer has turned bearish on Ethereum (ETH) in the short- to medium-term, disclosing a new sho...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

While the British financial institution refused to comment on potential takeover plans, sources close to the matter reve...… See More

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The company is building an "asset-native" network designed to handle regulated financial activity at scale, targeting a ...… See More

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Similarities reflect shared early research, not proof, said Back. Others have questions too.

CoinDesk 2 months ago

White House economists said banning rewards wouldn't significantly boost banks' financial health, amplifying the crypto ...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

The broker said advances in quantum computing are accelerating the timeline for crypto risk, but argued Bitcoin faces a ...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Digital asset inflows totaled $11 billion in Q1, as institutional demand and ETF outflows left corporate buyers and vent...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Iran plans to collect cryptocurrency and other digital payments as transit fees from fully loaded oil tankers passing th...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

NEAR Protocol (NEAR) joined Internet Computer (ICP) as a top performer, climbing 8.9% from Tuesday.

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Researchers are advancing post-quantum protections even as current hardware remains far from breaking crypto systems

CoinDesk 2 months ago

While BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF currently reigns as the liquidity king of crypto, Morgan Stanley’s MSBT will leverage...… See More

Finbold 2 months ago

The top three crypto assets by market capitalization, Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and XRP, rallied on April 8 amid a ...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

A ton of BTC was recently traded below $70,000 in a sign of strong dip demand.

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Bitcoin clears a key technical hurdle and eyes $76,000 as a temporary ceasefire with Iran and Morgan Stanley’s landmark ...… See More

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The initiative brings major lenders together to trial Swiss franc stablecoin in controlled environment with real transac...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

The new rules apply uniform criteria for withdrawal exceptions based on account history and transaction patterns.

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Digital assets spiked as a surprise geopolitical de-escalation triggered $600 million in liquidations, sending Bitcoin t...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

A Bitget veteran, Vugar Usi inherits a top-three exchange built on zero fees, 3,000 tokens and a compliance record he hi...… See More

Finbold 2 months ago

A trader successfully leveraged Claude AI to make a $10,000 profit on Polymarket with $2,000 in capital in one night. … ...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Bitcoin, equities, and gold rise while oil and volatility drop amid improving risk sentiment.

Finbold 2 months ago

A cluster of traders on cryptocurrency betting platform Polymarket walked away with outsized gains after correctly betti...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Alchemy’s AgentPay addresses the problem that the agentic payment systems currently coming online don’t talk to one anot...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

A trader named Loracle closed his short position in oil futures early Wednesday, pocketing $2 million in profit.

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Morgan Stanley's bitcoin ETF could start trading on NYSE on Wednesday under the ticker MSBT.

CoinDesk 2 months ago

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star. A...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Breakout backed by institutional flows and whale buying, though broader downtrend and weak ETF demand cap conviction.

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Short sellers betting on continued war escalation lost $427 million in 24 hours as bitcoin vaulted past $72,000 on the c...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

In his new memoir, Changpeng Zhao reveals he signed the FTX letter of intent as a formality and calls Caroline Ellison's...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Risk assets rose late Tuesday as oil collapsed after Trump and Iran confirmed the two-week ceasefire.

CoinDesk 2 months ago

Iran's government is reportedly reviewing Pakistan's request for a two-week ceasefire positively, according to an Axios ...… See More

Finbold 2 months ago

A Claude AI-powered arbitrage bot made a profit of $9,400 in two days on Polymarket, a blockchain-based prediction marke...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. approved a proposed rule to govern the issuers, even as the Senate continues to deba...… See More

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A deal with an Asia-based blockchain project followed recent links to individuals later sanctioned over alleged ties to ...… See More

CoinDesk 2 months ago

The foundation says it is becoming a leading network for “agentic payments.”

CoinDesk 2 months ago

DeFi yields have collapsed below TradFi rates, forcing investors to face higher smart contract risks for lower returns a...… See More