In the first six months of this year — when crypto-booster President Donald Trump reversed the US government’s cautionary opposition to crypto — transaction volume in the United States rose by about 50% to clear $1 trillion, according to a report by TRM Labs published Tuesday. The rapid rise was multifaceted, with institutions jumping into […]
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SharpLink Gaming (SBET), the publicly traded digital asset tax company led by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, reported its first ether ETH$3,878.02 purchases since the end of August and acquired tokens worth over $75 million. The firm raised $76.5 million last week via a direct stock offering and used the proceeds to buy 19,271 ETH at
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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 3608.8, down 2.0% (-72.51) since 4 PM ET Monday. None of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: SOL (-0.9%) and UNI (-1.4%). Laggards: LINK (-3.5%) and XRP (-3.2%).
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Coinbase (COIN), the crypto exchange that bought the largest crypto options exchange, Deribit, for $2.9 billion earlier this year, expects a wave of traditional financial institutions (TradFi) to start using digital asset derivatives for investment or hedging, said Usman Naeem, the Nasdaq-listed company’s global head of derivatives sales. The institutions waking up to globally regulated
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On the morning of October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage that spilled into widespread service disruptions across thousands of websites and applications. Several major exchanges and crypto service providers rely heavily on cloud infrastructure like AWS to power their trading platforms, wallets, analytics tools and matching engines. The ripple effect
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US Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller kicked off the central bank’s first payments innovation conference by pledging that the Fed will embrace the crypto sector’s innovations and saying he has asked staff to explore a lighter version of the so-called “master accounts” that give financial firms access to US payment rails. “My view from the
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Shares of Galaxy Digital ( GLXY ) are ahead 2% on Tuesday after the crypto-focused financial firm beat third-quarter revenue expectations by a wide margin and confirmed major progress on its Helios data center project. Led by CEO Mike Novogratz, the company reported $29 billion in revenue, nearly doubling analysts’ forecasts of $16 billion. Galaxy
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Bitcoin BTC$111,969.23 captures a bid on Tuesday as the record rally in precious metals reverses in a big way. Gold fell 5% to $4,130, the biggest daily move in years. Silver also fell by almost 8%. The metals had risen sharply over the past few months, driven by central banks moving into monetary easing, US-China
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Cross-asset rotation is driving new inflows into risk assets as XRP outperforms major altcoins and regains leverage at $2.50 before profit-taking sets in. News background XRP posted a 3% intraday gain on Monday as traders rotated out of defensive assets amid gold’s retreat and a modest rise in bitcoin. The move came as broader markets
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Aave’s control sign AAVE$231.54the world’s largest decentralized lending protocol, rose 2.5% to over $230 on Tuesday afternoon, recovering from an overnight selloff. Pushing through key resistance levels, the token confirmed a double-bottom support zone between $220 and $221.13, triggering a reversal as volume surged nearly 90% above daily averages, according to CoinDesk Research’s analysis model.
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