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 1909.89, down 2.5% (-49.09) since 4 PM ET Tuesday. None of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BCH (-0.5%) and UNI (-1.2%). Lagging behind: APT (-4.1%) and BNB […]
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US job growth strengthened significantly in the first month of 2026. 130,000 jobs were added in January, according to a Wednesday report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists’ forecasts had been for 70,000 added jobs, up from job growth of 48,000 in December. The unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, compared to forecasts of 4.4%
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HONG KONG — Consensus Hong Kong’s first day ended with the promise of new financial products linked to crypto in the special administrative region of China. Hong Kong’s chief executive and secretary of finance and executive director of the Securities and Futures Commission all laid out their priorities for regulation, saying Hong Kong would start
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Aviva Investors, the asset management arm of UK insurer Aviva (AV), plans to tokenize traditional fund structures on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) in a deal with blockchain firm Ripple, the companies said in a press release on Wednesday. The collaboration will see Ripple support Aviva Investors in issuing and managing tokenized funds on XRPL, a
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Bitcoin BTC$67,016.00 fell 2.4% in the past 24 hours to around $66,900, while ether ETH$1,950.42 lost 2.7% to trade back below $2,000. The broader CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index fell 3.7%. The declines weighed on crypto-related stocks. Coinbase (COIN) fell about 4% in premarket trading, while rival exchange Bullish (BLSH), which owns CoinDesk, fell 2.3%. Bitcoin
If there is a classic technology hype cycle attached to tokenization – the representation of any asset on blockchains like Ethereum – we are barely getting started. That’s according to Min Lin, managing director of global expansion at Ondo, who pointed out that the US Treasury bond market alone is worth $29 trillion. Adding the
HONG KONG – Hong Kong is poised to start issuing the first of its stablecoin licenses next month, the Special Administration Region’s finance secretary said on Wednesday. Hong Kong will only issue a small batch of licenses initially, Hong Kong’s Paul Chan Mo-Po said Wednesday at CoinDesk’s Consensus Hong Kong conference. “By granting our licenses,
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Arkham Exchange, the cryptocurrency trading platform built by data analytics firm Arkham Intelligence, is shutting down, according to a person familiar with the matter. Arkham, whose backers include OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, did not respond to requests for comment. The company, which was founded in 2020 and now boasts over 3 million registered users, shot
HONG KONG – Thomas Lee, chairman of ether ETH$1,948.79 Financial company BitMine Immersion (BMRN), said the next generation major financial institution may not come from Wall Street, but from YouTube. Speaking on stage at Consensus Hong Kong on Wednesday, Lee argued that MrBeast’s move into banking could position the video creator as the primary financial
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is partnering with crypto-friendly trading firm Franklin Templeton to offer an off-exchange institutional collateral program that makes digital markets safer and capital efficient. The new service allows eligible clients to use tokenized money market fund shares issued through Franklin Templeton’s Benji Technology Platform as off-exchange collateral to trade on
