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 2944.32, up 1.5% (+44.74) since 4 PM ET Thursday. Eighteen of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: SUI (+5.2%) and AAVE (+4.5%) Lagging behind: APT (-0.9%) and HBAR […]
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Filecoin fell 0.2% to $1.37 over the past 24 hours as the token underperformed the broader crypto markets. The broader market gauge, the CoinDesk 20 Index, was 3% higher at press time. FIL trading activity jumped 29% above its seven-day average, signaling heightened institutional interest, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. The elevated volumes
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ADNOC Distribution, the UAE’s largest fuel and convenience retailer, will begin accepting AE Coin stablecoin for payments across its retail network at nearly 980 service stations in the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The retailer signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Al Maryah Community Bank to enable customers to
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After stepping down as CEO of Binance in 2023 and serving a short prison sentence for violating the federal Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) in the United States, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao remains one of the most watched figures in crypto. This feature is part of CoinDesk’s The list of most influential 2025. His formal exit from
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Thomas “Tom” Lee has been a fixture on Wall Street for some time, and his latest pivot in crypto signals, he’s not content to remain on the sidelines. This feature is part of CoinDesk’s The list of most influential 2025. Lee co-founded Fundstrat Global Advisors, an independent financial research firm, in 2014. He currently serves
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Jesse Pollak, best known as the creator behind American crypto exchange Coinbase’s layer-2 network Base, has been seen as the person largely responsible for the network’s growth in popularity this year. Pollak, who joined Coinbase in 2017, launched Base in 2023. Designed to make onchain activity cheaper and easier, and to support a new wave
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After a 13-page letter from investment powerhouse Citadel Securities informed the US Securities and Exchange Commission that decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols that handle tokenized securities require a closer regulatory grip, the industry hit back with its own correspondence on Friday, calling the arguments “baseless.” “While we share Citadel’s goals of investor protection, orderly markets, and
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Among other things, 2025 will certainly be remembered for the mania and then breathtaking collapse of hastily formed bitcoin tax companies trying to mirror the success of Michael Saylor’s strategy. Perhaps none is more high profile than KindlyMD ( NAKA ), led by David Bailey, formerly the highly successful CEO of Bitcoin Magazine and Bitcoin
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Tether, the crypto company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, USDT USDT$1.0002aims to acquire popular Italian football club Juventus FC, increasing its minority stake to 100%. The firm said on Friday it has submitted a binding proposal for majority shareholder Exor’s 65.4% stake in the club in a cash offer, according to a Friday blog post.
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Last year, Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (MSTR), was among the most influential people in the bitcoin ecosystem. His company’s stock rose fivefold even as US bitcoin ETFs entered the market. This feature is part of CoinDesk’s The list of most influential 2025. However, the story in 2025 has been markedly different. MSTR has
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