CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: AAVE gains 2.9%, leading index higher
Avalanche (AVAX) was also a top performer, up 1.6% from Tuesday.
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Criminal Use of Crypto Spikes After Years of Steady Decline, TRM Report Says
Criminal actors seized $158 billion in digital assets last year, marking a sudden increase in the value of illicit activity after years of decline, according to a report released by TRM Labs analyzing 2025 data. However, the increase in the total still represents a sustained decline in the percentage of total crypto activity linked to
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Bullish bitcoin traders get crash protection as Friday’s $8.9 billion expiration approaches
Crypto traders lean bullish as they hunt for downside protection ahead of Friday’s bitcoin BTC$89,917.94 options deadline for billions of dollars. Bitcoin options worth $8.5 billion will expire on Deribit at 8:00 UTC on Friday, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume and open positions. These figures represent the nominal value in US dollars
WisdomTree expands tokenized fund access to Solana in multichain push
WisdomTree expands its tokenization efforts to Solana, adding blockchain to the list of networks supporting its real-world asset (RWA) products. The New York-based asset manager, best known for its exchange-traded funds, said Wednesday that both institutional and retail investors will be able to mint, trade and hold its full suite of tokenized funds on Solana
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Altcoin Strength Grows As HYPE, JTO Rises, BTC Price Consolidates, Dollar Falls: Crypto Markets Today
Bitcoin BTC$88,841.00 traded little changed on Wednesday after rising yesterday as the dollar weakened. Ether ETH$2,988.15 gave up some of his gains. Instead, gains came from other parts of the altcoin market. Hyperliquid’s native HYPE token extended gains, adding 11% since midnight UTC, and Solana liquid staking token JTO$0.3888 rose 32%, its biggest one-day gain
Nomura’s Laser Digital applies to open US national trust bank for crypto depository
Laser Digital, the digital asset arm of Japanese investment bank Nomura, said it filed an application with the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to open a federally regulated national trust bank, joining a number of crypto companies seeking to exclude asset management services for the digital asset industry. The proposed Laser
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Top stablecoins, tether and USD coins, shrink and pose a risk to BTC
The crypto market is seeing one of its rarest trends lately, and it doesn’t look good for the valuation of bitcoin BTC$89,301.77 and other tokens. This trend is the decline in the market value of the top two dollar-pegged stablecoins, Tether USDT$0.9988 and USD Coin (USDC). Their total market capitalization has fallen to $257.9 billion,
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OKX executive says stablecoins are gaining traction in payments as new cards launch
Stablecoins are moving beyond crypto experimentation and into trusted financial infrastructure, OKX said as it announced the launch of a new payment card in Europe. “Momentum is building fast,” Erald Ghoos, CEO of OKX Europe, told CoinDesk. “Regulators are putting genuine safeguards in place, big banks are not only taking them seriously in terms of
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Here’s how China’s tariff evasion is silently shaking bitcoin
China’s response to President Trump’s aggressive trade policies is quietly disrupting global money flows, with ripples reaching all the way to crypto markets. Since taking office early last year, President Trump has imposed steep import tariffs or taxes on nearly all goods entering the United States, including goods from China, the world’s second-largest economy and
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Hyperliquid’s HYPE rises 30% as crypto and tradfi worlds merge
When the crypto market emerged more than a decade ago, its proponents pitched it as “us vs. them”—an insurgent battle against Wall Street and traditional markets. Over time, the great divide slowly closed with the debut of popular traditional instruments like futures and ETFs linked to cryptocurrencies, and now the two worlds have merged on
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