The weaker dollar fails to spur bitcoins BTC$88,126.87 usual rally, and JP Morgan Private Bank explains the unexpected behavior as a window into the nature of the US currency’s decline. The dollar index (DXY), which measures the dollar against a basket of peers, has fallen 10% in the past year. Bitcoin, which historically gains during […]
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Five Wall Street firms met with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force on Tuesday to discuss regulatory approaches to digital assets and decentralized finance (DeFi) and how tokenized securities should be treated under existing federal laws. According to the SEC memo, published Tuesday, representatives from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA),
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For bitcoin BTC$88,215.96 bulls, it feels like one setback after another. The first precious metals such as gold and silver rose to record highs, sucking capital away from the crypto market. And now oil is starting to rise as well, threatening to skew macroeconomic forces in favor of bitcoin bears. The price per a barrel
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XRPs XRP$1.8872 The price has fallen about 4% this month, starting the new year on a negative note. Still, on-chain data shows a positive trend underneath. The number of “millionaire” wallets, or those holding at least 1 million XRP, has increased for the first time since September 2025, according to data source Santiment. Their numbers
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UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL JANUARY 29 AT 10 GST The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) has approved the country’s first USD-backed stablecoin under the bank’s Payment Token Services Regulation (PTSR), according to a press release on Thursday. The issuance and management of the USDU token is handled by Universal Digital, which is regulated
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Bitcoin fell to the $88,000 level on Thursday as a rebound in the US dollar and continued strength in commodities kept crypto trading on the back burner, a day after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady. Bitcoin fell below $88,500 on Thursday after briefly trading above $89,000 earlier in the session, extending a choppy
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is pushing back against a growing market for “tokenized stocks,” which look like stocks, trade like stocks but don’t actually provide ownership, issuing new guidance that puts third-party synthetic stock products squarely under traditional securities and derivatives rules. In a joint statement, the SEC’s Divisions of Corporation Finance, Investment Management,
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Welcome to our institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week: Marcin Kazmierczak on risk assessments and how they are central to capital being deployed in the chain Andy Baehr says Bitcoin has something to do Top headlines institutions should be aware of by Francisco Rodrigues “The silver rush becomes hyperliquid” in the Chart of
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MegaETH, the much-watched high-performance Ethereum layer-2 network, announced that its public mainnet will go live on February 9, marking a major milestone for a project that has gained a lot of attention in the scaling landscape. MegaETH positions itself as a “real-time” blockchain for Ethereum, designed to deliver ultra-low latency and massive transaction throughput. The
Coinbase (COIN) has rolled out its new prediction market platform to US users, enabling them to trade on the outcomes of real-world events, including elections, sports, collectibles and economic indicators. The platform, announced in December, is built in partnership with Kalshi, a US-regulated prediction market operator recently valued at $11 billion. Kalshi offers event-based contracts
