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…
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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 …
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.
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.
When Botanix announced last week that it would be winding down operations, the Bitcoin layer-2 project did not try to sugarcoat its message.
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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.
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
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…
For more than 135 years, the Kanoo family, one of Bahrain's wealthiest families, has helped build the Gulf’s entire commercial infrastructure.
Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, whose net worth is estimated at roughly $5 billion, is a bitcoin maximalist.
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…
Crypto infrastructure provider BitGo's (BTGO) shares jumped as much as 20% on Wednesday after the company announced a $50 million share buyback program to support a stock that has struggled since its public debut earlie…
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 …
A new proposal for Bittensor, the decentralized AI network behind the TAO token, would change how the network pays its validators and turn them into something closer to fund managers.
With 60% of stablecoin payments flowing through a fragmented Asian corridor, new backend middleware lets autonomous software move capital without human steps.
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.
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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.
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…
XRP's push above $1.25 lasted only a few hours. Sellers showed up near the highs and drove the token back through $1.23 on some of the session's heaviest volume, turning what looked like a breakout into a reminder that …
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.