It was a bad week for crypto prices, with BTC and ETH both falling and the CoinDesk 20, which covers 80% of the market, losing 7% since Monday. But less speculative assets showed plenty of volume. Stablecoins, in particular, were the name
An investment firm with ties to U.S. President Donald Trump’s sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., is putting some of its excess cash into a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) — an unusual twist on the increasingly popular strategy of holding bitcoin
Is Strategy (MSTR) in trouble? Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the firm formerly known as MicroStrategy has vacuumed up 506,137 bitcoin (BTC), currently worth roughly $44 billion at BTC’s current price near $87,000, in the span of about five years. To
U.S. Representatives Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) and Jim Himes (D-Conn.) reintroduced a bill to help combat illicit finance and terrorist financing on digital asset platforms after the previous version passed the House of Representatives last year failed to make progress in the Senate
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2616.04, down 4.5% (-123.93) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. None of the 20 assets are
Nasdaq submitted a 19b-4 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to approve the listing of a spot Avalanche exchange-traded fund (ETF) managed by Grayscale. Grayscale already manages an Avalanche Trust that carries a 2.5% management fee. The filing could
Galaxy Digital (GLXY), the Mike Novogratz-led digital asset financial services firm, will pay $200 million as a settlement with the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) office relating to the collapse of the Terra-Luna ecosystem in 2022. The firm will pay $200 million
By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) The crypto market is extending yesterday’s slide as investors anticipate the impact of President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, set to come into effect on April 2, and key macroeconomic data due later Friday.
Bpifrance, a French state-owned investment bank, plans to invest 25 million euros ($27 million) in digital assets as part of an initiative to strengthen the country’s blockchain industry. The bank will buy and hold crypto tokens related to decentralized finance (DeFi) tokenization,
One cold February morning in 2014, Kolin Burges stood outside Mt. Gox’s Tokyo office, clutching a handwritten cardboard sign and demanding answers from the bitcoin exchange’s CEO, Mark Karpeles, about his missing tokens. Eleven years later, the iconic sign, emblematic of crypto’s