Fifty days into 2026, bitcoin has had its worst start to a financial year ever, according to Checkonchain data. The asset is down 23% year-to-date, after falling 10% in January and another 15% in February. Bitcoin has never before recorded back-to-back declines in January and February, according to Coinglass data. While there have been double-digit […]
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KuCoin EU is expanding the local compliance and management team in Austria
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said he now sees a 90% chance that the long-debated Clarity Act will pass by the end of April, signaling growing confidence within the crypto industry that US lawmakers can finally deliver long-sought legislative certainty. Speaking on Fox Business, Garlinghouse said momentum has accelerated following renewed engagement from lawmakers and the
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Bitcoin mining difficulty has risen to 144.4 trillion (T), up 15%, the biggest percentage increase since 2021, when China’s mining ban led to a major disruption, which followed a 22% adjustment as the network stabilized. Difficulty adjustments measure how difficult it is to mine a new block on the network. It recalibrates every 2,016 blocks,
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Crypto prices strengthened during Asia’s Friday morning session, with bitcoin rising towards $68,000 after a choppy week that tested nerves across risk markets. The rejection was widespread. XRP, Solana’s SOL, DOGE$0.09902 and Cardano’s ADA added up to 2%, while ether limped along with a slight decline, hovering below $2,000 as traders treated the level as
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Simon Gerovich, CEO of Metaplanet (3350), has responded to online criticism of the Tokyo-listed bitcoin treasury company as bitcoin has fallen nearly 50% from its October peak and now trades near $67,000, while Metaplanet shares are down about 85% from their 2025 record high. Addressing anonymous critics, Gerovich said, “It’s easy to hide behind anonymous
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By Jacob Joseph (All times ET unless otherwise noted) Even with the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) little changed since midnight UTC, crypto markets remain under pressure. All but one member has fallen, and the outlier, bitcoin BTC$67,285.52is less than 0.1% in green. The index has lost 2% in 24 hours, and spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund
Societe Generale’s digital asset arm SG-FORGE has implemented its euro stablecoin, EUR CoinVertible, on XRP Ledger, expanding beyond its existing integrations on Ethereum and Solana, as competition heats up in Europe’s regulated stablecoin race. EUR CoinVertible is issued under French digital asset regulations and is backed 1 to 1 by cash deposits or high quality
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Bitcoin’s 14-day Relative Strength Index (RSI) fell below 30 for only the third time in its history this month, according to checkonchain. The RSI is a popular tool for detecting an asset’s momentum by measuring the speed and magnitude of recent price movements and comparing average gains and losses over a set 14-day period. The
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CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1909.21, down 0.9% (-18.15) since 4 PM ET Wednesday. None of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BTC (-0.3%) and BNB (-0.5%). Backlog: ICP (-3.5%) and SUI (-3.0%). The
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