More than $110 million in bitcoin BTC$87,018.43 short positions were liquidated as the price of the largest cryptocurrency rose to $90,000 from an intraday low of $86,200 on Wednesday. Coinglass data shows that short positions were liquidated in the past hour, with the majority occurring on bitcoin trading pairs. The price increase also coincided with […]
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Circle (CRCL) Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO Jeremy Allaire spent 2025 turning a long-standing thesis — that dollar-backed digital money would become core financial infrastructure — into a mainstream policy and technology agenda. This feature is part of CoinDesk’s The list of most influential 2025. Allaire appears to be proud of the strong regulatory foundation for
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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 2726.78, down 0.5% (-14.03) since 4 PM ET Tuesday. Two of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BCH (+0.8%) and SOL (+0.3%). Lagging behind: NEAR (-4.1%) and SUI
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EquiLend, a securities finance giant with $40 trillion in lendable assets, said it made a “strategic” minority investment in Digital Prime Technologies, a regulated crypto finance provider. The company said it is responding to client demand for managed, transparent workflows that can flow directly from trading to post-trade processing and reporting across both traditional and
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the industry-owned clearing and settlement market infrastructure, has selected the privacy-focused Canton Network as a tokenization partner, the companies said on Tuesday. The partnership, which will enable a subset of US Treasuries held at DTC to be minted on the Canton Network, follows DTCC’s recent receipt of a No-Action
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless otherwise noted) Bitcoin BTC$87,105,81 has gained between $86,000 and $88,000 over the past 24 hours, with Tuesday’s US jobs data not providing meaningful volatility. The price is close to a major technical level which, if broken, could cause more pain. The number of BTC/USD longs (bullish bets) on
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The crypto market fell overnight with bitcoin BTC$86,824.14 down 1.5% from the high it hit in the early hours on Wednesday. The wider market followed suit. The CoinDesk 20 (CD20) was down 1.6% since midnight UTC with all members of the index down. Bitcoin’s selloff after failing to break above $94,700 last week has extended
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Bhutan unveiled a national Bitcoin Development Pledge that will allocate up to 10,000 bitcoin BTC$86,733.15worth about $860 million at current prices, to support the development of the Gelephu Mindfulness City. The commitment positions bitcoin as a strategic national asset rather than a speculative holding, with officials exploring responsible approaches such as collateral, financial strategies or
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By 2025, gold has emerged as the standout asset, delivering returns of more than 50%, marking one of its strongest performances in over a decade. The precious metal was the clear winner of what mainstream commentators called the “debasement trade,” a viral term that captured growing investor anxiety over global debt levels, excessive borrowing and
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By the time his term as chairman of the Federal Reserve System ends in May 2026, Jerome Powell will have served in that role across all or parts of three presidential administrations — Trump I, Biden and Trump II. This feature is part of CoinDesk’s The list of most influential 2025. Powell will likely be
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