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BTC lenders say institutions want cryptocredit to be more like TradFi

Bitcoin lenders may need to become more like traditional finance firms, not less, if they want institutional capital to continue flowing into the sector. At Consensus 2026 in Miami, Alexander Blume, founder and CEO of institutional bitcoin lender Two Prime, argued that the next phase of crypto-credit growth will depend less on decentralized finance experimentation […]

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Three signals pointing to a possible jump to $85,000

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Bitcoin BTC$82,164.36the world’s largest digital asset by market capitalization, has risen from about $63,000 to over $80,000 in the past three months, according to CoinDesk’s market data. And key signals that professionals are watching now all point in the same direction: $85,000. The rally is not just about price, but about the ripples beneath the

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Dogecoin falls 4%, bitcoin rally stalls as Iran ceasefire optimism lifts stocks

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The crypto rally took a pit stop on Thursday as stocks continued to zoom higher. Bitcoin BTC$80,973.77 traded at $80,945 in Asian hours, down 0.7% over 24 hours but still up 6.9% on the week. Ether (ETH) fell 2% to $2,326, and DOGE$0.1154 was the biggest laggard, falling 4.4% to $0.1106 after last week’s run

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Dominance of Tether and Circle is a net bad for stablecoins, Bridge exec says

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Miami Beach — The stablecoin universe, dominated by Tether and Circle, is stifling competition that could lead to better product-market fit for some key use cases, according to Ben O’Neill, Bridge’s head of money movement. “I think it’s a net bad for the growth of stablecoins as a whole because you have two counterparties that

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US Bitcoin Reserve Update Coming in Next Few Weeks,” White House Adviser Says

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An announcement on the long-awaited US strategic bitcoin reserve (SBR) will come “in the next few weeks,” Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Digital Assets Council, told CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference on Wednesday. The federal effort to inventory, centralize and secure US bitcoin BTC$80,946.51 and other digital assets have been running in the background

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Spot Bitcoin ETFs solved access, but custody, advisors and plumbing still lag, panelists say

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Spot bitcoin ETFs cleared crypto’s longstanding barrier to entry by placing bitcoin in brokerage and advisor accounts already devoted to stocks and bonds. After two and a half years, panelists at CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference agreed that some had worked. But they said custodial concentration, modest enrollment of counselors and plumbing work remain unresolved. Christopher

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Bitcoin’s post-quantum migration will be harder than Taproot and needs to start now, says Project Eleven CEO

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Bitcoin’s developer community should stop waiting for certainty about quantum computing timelines and focus on getting a post-quantum signature scheme into production, Alex Pruden, CEO of Project Eleven, told CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference on Wednesday. Pruden said the asymmetry between acting now and waiting favors action. “We added some new cryptography, we kind of built

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Crypto’s mainstream moment has arrived, say industry leaders

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What was once considered a speculative fringe movement is quickly becoming part of the world’s financial plumbing, according to executives from Binance, Revolut and Circle (CRCL), who spoke at Consensus Miami on Wednesday. “We were in the prohibition era,” said Rachel Conlan, Chief Marketing Officer at Binance. “Now we are in the infrastructure phase.” Conlan

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DTCC, Wall Street’s clearing house, is working with blockchains to tokenize corporate actions

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Wall Street’s clearinghouse is working with blockchain developers to bring one of the capital markets’ least glamorous but most operationally complex functions on-chain: corporate transactions. Frank La Salla, CEO of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), said Wednesday at Consensus 2026 in Miami that the market infrastructure giant is partnering with multiple layer-1 (L1)

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Nasdaq President Says SEC’s New Crypto Stance Lets Markets ‘Rebuild’

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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Nasdaq President Tal Cohen said the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) changing approach to crypto regulation gives market operators more room to experiment with blockchain-based infrastructure and tokenized assets. Speaking at Consensus in Miami on Wednesday, Cohen said the industry now feels it can “build itself back up” after years

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