In 2025, Paolo Ardoino, CEO of the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, went from being just another cryptocurrency executive to being one of the foremost figures in the global transformation of financial infrastructure. Tether, the company behind USDT’s $185 billion market cap, is increasingly blurring the lines between blockchain innovation and traditional banking power. […]
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Good morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to the Asia Morning Briefing, a daily overview of top stories in US hours and an overview of market movements and analysis. For a detailed overview of US markets, see CoinDesk’s Crypto Diary Americas. Crypto markets in Asia are opening to a more stable
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It was a job that didn’t exist before, held by someone who hadn’t been in government before, but when US President Donald Trump opened up a new crypto advisory role in his White House, he brought in a former college football star and up-and-coming politician to serve as his first executive director of the Presidential
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new video loaded: The battle for Warner Bros. Discovery Nicole Sperling, a Times reporter who covers Hollywood and the streaming revolution, breaks down the competing bids from Netflix and Paramount to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. By Nicole Sperling, Edward Vega, Laura Salaberry, Jon Hazell and Chris Orr 9 December 2025
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Growing up, my family wasn’t loyal to sports teams – my parents are foreign, and sports rivalries never translated. Even at Duke, I could have cared less about college basketball (sorry). The only real institutional or brand allegiance I inherited was my father’s commitment to Delta Air Lines, which I still maintain. Then I got
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A Republican US senator who has been at the center of negotiations on the crypto market structure bill that is the industry’s top policy priority, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, said the White House has resisted ethics language she challenged with Democrats. That has left the Wyoming lawmaker as a middleman trying to appease Democratic colleagues in
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Twenty One ( XXI ) is down 25% early on its first day of trading following the completion of its SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners ( CEP ). Now trading at around $10.50, the stock is at a level that effectively puts the original bitcoin company close to its PIPE price of $10. The
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What started as a slow American morning in the crypto markets has taken a rapid turn with bitcoin BTC$92,923.64 resumes the $94,000 level. Hovering just above $90,000 earlier in the day, the largest crypto rallied back to $94,000 minutes after 16:00 UTC, gaining more than $3,000 in less than an hour and up 4% over
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BlackRock’s filing for a staking ether ETF earlier this week has contributed to ETH’s relative strength against bitcoin, a market strategist noted.
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Tired US-based bitcoin BTC$90,494.54 bulls may think it’s their imagination that they seem to wake up every morning to BTC doing pretty well, only for prices to drop during the US trading session. They don’t actually imagine things. Data from crypto analytics platform Velo.xyz shows that over the past year, bitcoin is more likely to
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