The gold bull market kicked into higher gear on Wednesday, with the yellow metal rising 6% to above $5,400 an ounce for the first time. Silver and platinum posted even bigger percentage gains, but gold, with a market cap somewhere in the $40 trillion range, was certainly the standout asset. A significant portion of gold’s […]
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The White House will meet with representatives from crypto companies and traditional banks in the coming days to work on concerns about stablecoin dividends in the crypto market structure bill, people familiar with the matter told CoinDesk. The legislation, which was delayed earlier this month, has faced opposition over how it proposes to regulate stablecoin
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Crypto investors are piling into tokenized gold as digital asset markets tread water, sending inflows into Paxos’ gold token to a record high in January. Paxos Gold (PAXG), backed by physical gold held in LBMA boxes in London, raised more than $248 million in fresh capital through January, DefiLlama data shows. That lifted PAXG’s market
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Network news ETHEREUM’S NEW AI AGENT STANDARD: Ethereum developers are preparing to roll out ERC-8004, a new standard designed to help software agents find each other, prove who they are, and decide who to trust when operating across different systems. The proposal introduces a simple idea: if AI agents are to act, coordinate and perform
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Bitcoin financial company Strive (ASST) now has less debt and more bitcoin on its books after raising $225 million via an offering of its SATA preferred stock. With more than $600 million in orders, according to a press release, the offering was increased from an originally targeted $150 million. The proceeds and exchanges allowed Strive
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Avalanche (AVAX) was also a top performer, up 1.6% from Tuesday.
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Criminal actors seized $158 billion in digital assets last year, marking a sudden increase in the value of illicit activity after years of decline, according to a report released by TRM Labs analyzing 2025 data. However, the increase in the total still represents a sustained decline in the percentage of total crypto activity linked to
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Crypto traders lean bullish as they hunt for downside protection ahead of Friday’s bitcoin BTC$89,917.94 options deadline for billions of dollars. Bitcoin options worth $8.5 billion will expire on Deribit at 8:00 UTC on Friday, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume and open positions. These figures represent the nominal value in US dollars
WisdomTree expands its tokenization efforts to Solana, adding blockchain to the list of networks supporting its real-world asset (RWA) products. The New York-based asset manager, best known for its exchange-traded funds, said Wednesday that both institutional and retail investors will be able to mint, trade and hold its full suite of tokenized funds on Solana
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Bitcoin BTC$88,841.00 traded little changed on Wednesday after rising yesterday as the dollar weakened. Ether ETH$2,988.15 gave up some of his gains. Instead, gains came from other parts of the altcoin market. Hyperliquid’s native HYPE token extended gains, adding 11% since midnight UTC, and Solana liquid staking token JTO$0.3888 rose 32%, its biggest one-day gain
