Jefferies, a Wall Street investment bank, said growing blockchain infrastructure and gradual regulatory progress are laying the groundwork for a new wave of tokenization of institutions in traditional finance (TradFi). Wide adoption, however, depends on clear rules for US market structures, it says. The bank pointed to the draft Digital Asset Market Clarity Act as […]
As if continued declines in the bitcoin price weren’t enough, shares of bitcoin miners that have changed their business plan to focus on AI infrastructure were mostly sharply lower on Monday following Nvidia’s $2 billion investment in CoreWeave. While the investment underscores the growing demand for high-performance computing as AI applications expand, it also highlights
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The Senate Agriculture Committee postponed the markup hearing on its crypto market structure bill, previously scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, by two days. The committee had intended to let lawmakers debate amendments and vote on its version of the bill, which aims to define how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission can oversee crypto markets, but a
If Congress fails to pass market structure legislation this year, the US crypto market would not return to the enforcement-heavy environment of 2022 and 2023, but it would remain structurally constrained at a time when global adoption and institutional interest are accelerating, Wall Street brokerage Benchmark said. “The absence of legislation will see a structural
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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 2688.53, down 1.8% (-47.97) since 16 ET Friday. Two out of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: LTC (+1.3%) and APT (+0.3%). Backlog: POL (-4.0%) and ICP (-3.9%). The
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Strategy (MSTR) continued its weekly bitcoin BTC$87,940.93 purchases last week, though at a reduced level from the $1 billion of purchases in the previous two weeks. Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, MSTR added 2,932 bitcoin for $264.1 million, or an average price of $90,061 each. The company’s holdings now stand at 712,647 bitcoins acquired
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Strategy sells $257 million in stock, buys 2,932 bitcoin for $264 million
Strategy sells $257 million in stock, buys 2,932 bitcoin for $264 million Read More »
By Francisco Rodrigues (all times ET unless otherwise noted) Bitcoin is struggling to hold on as concerns over the strength of the yen and fiscal instability drove a divergence between crypto and traditional safe-haven assets. Bitcoin fell 0.8% in 24 hours to sit below $88,000, and ether lost more than 1.6% to just below $2,900.
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A sharp drop in the Bitcoin blockchain’s hashrate, down 10% on Sunday during this week’s US winter storm, offers a real-time stress test of a concern long flagged by researchers: Mining centralization has turned local infrastructure failure into system-level risks. Hashrate is the amount of available computing power to process transactions required to keep the
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Bitcoin is on course for a fourth consecutive monthly decline, a rare stretch not seen since 2018 to 2019, when the market recorded six consecutive red months. There’s still a full week of trading left in January, but bitcoin is slightly lower on the month, hovering around $87,000. The asset posted negative monthly closes in
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