In today’s newsletter, Nick Ducoff, head of institutional growth at the Solana Foundation, draws a parallel between tokenization’s ability to democratize investment access and how the Internet eased access to banking over fifteen years ago. Then, in Ask an Expert, the CoinDesk Research Team answers questions about stablecoin and tokenization trends from their February 2026 […]
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The first phase of bitcoins BTC$72,578.05 recent withdrawal has not sparked panic among institutional investors, according to crypto asset management firm CoinShares. Professional distributors reduced exposure modestly but largely maintained their positions compared to last year. Advisers trimmed holdings while hedge funds fell back along with broader leverage relaxed and shifting opportunities in other markets,
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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 2064.51, down 1.6% (-33.92) since 4 PM ET Wednesday. One in 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: ICP (+1.1%) and UNI (-0.4%). Laggards: XLM (-3.5%) and LTC (-2.8%). The
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YY Group Holdings adopts bitcoin as treasury reserve asset
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Core Scientific (CORZ), the Texas-based digital infrastructure provider, has secured up to $1 billion in strategic financing from Morgan Stanley to support the development of its data center infrastructure. The company announced the initial closing of a $500 million 364-day term loan facility with a harmony option that could expand total commitments by an additional
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Revolut, the British fintech giant that offers crypto trading, has filed for a US banking license with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a major step in its push to expand into the US financial system. If approved, the license would allow the London-based company to operate more like a traditional bank
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By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless otherwise noted) Bitcoin BTC$72,786.79 is rallying against the US dollar, a pattern that has emerged several times since President Donald Trump won the 2024 election. The cryptocurrency is up over 10% since the outbreak of war in the Middle East over the weekend. Prices nearly tested the $74,000
The crypto market was little changed on Thursday with bitcoin BTC$72,854.02 and ether (ETH) with gains of less than 1% as investors consolidated after Wednesday’s breakout. While bitcoin decisively held above the $70,000 level that had rejected earlier rallies, it has failed to deliver an upward shift to $80,000 as some analysts predicted. Global stocks
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Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm is back in the market with a fifth venture fund, even as the digital asset sector navigates a slower investment environment, Fortune reported. A16z crypto aims to raise $2 billion for the fund and hopes to close the process during the first half of 2026, Fortune said, citing unidentified sources. The
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IREN ( IREN ), a data center operator focused on AI cloud infrastructure, said it agreed to buy more than 50,000 specialized processing chips from Nvidia ( NVDA ), expanding its capacity by about 50%. The B300 GPUs, or graphics processing units, will bring the Sydney-based company’s total AI computing fleet to around 150,000 GPUs.
