Tokenization has become one of crypto’s favorite buzzwords, but Grayscale head of research Zach Pandl said investors should think of it less as a single trade and more as a long roadmap with different winners at different stages. Speaking at the EthCC conference in Cannes, France, Pandl said the trend is still in its infancy. […]
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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 1968.28, up 1.0% (+20.29) since yesterday’s close. Eighteen out of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: AVAX (+4.0%) and HBAR (+3.6%). Lagging behind: BCH (-2.1%) and BNB (+0.0%). The
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Wall Street Asset Management giant Franklin Templeton is launching a dedicated cryptocurrency division as it deepens its push into digital assets, anchored by a planned acquisition of crypto investment firm 250 Digital. The new entity, called Franklin Crypto, will bring together the 250 Digital team and its liquid crypto strategies — formerly managed by CoinFund
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Bitcoin’s reputation has historically been built on extreme boom-and-bust cycles, with steep write-downs of up to 90% after all-time highs. This cycle, however, the decline has been closer to 50%, a shift that analysts said reflects the maturation of BTC as an asset class. “Bitcoin’s withdrawals compressing to around 50% is a sign of a
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Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI has closed $122 billion in committed capital for a post-money valuation of $852 billion, a round that dwarfs anything raised in private markets and cements the company as the most valuable startup in history by a wide margin. The funding was anchored by Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank, with continued participation from
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Brazil’s main exchange B3 will begin offering six new derivatives contracts on April 27, allowing investors to bet on the likelihood of future events, from the price of bitcoin to movements in the dollar and the Ibovespa index. The instruments, called Event Contracts, operate on a framework similar to prediction markets such as Kalshi and
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Crypto markets rallied on Wednesday as oil briefly dipped below $100 a barrel after US President Donald Trump said the war in Iran will end in “two to three weeks”. Bitcoin BTC$68,569.55 is trading at $68,500 after rising 0.4% since midnight UTC and 3.1% over the past 24 hours, while ether (ETH) is back at
U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs ended March with $1.32 billion in net inflows to register their first monthly inflows since October, SoSoValue data shows. This follows four consecutive months of net outflows, which coincided with bitcoin falling as much as 50% from its October record of $126,000. November saw $3.5 billion in outflows, followed by $1.1
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Since its inception, bitcoin BTC$68,477.89 has been like a daredevil climber scaling new heights, rarely looking back at the ledges it left behind. Its price rarely returned to previous bull market peaks, even during long, grueling bear markets. But that pattern seems to have changed, suggesting that the market has matured and the era of
Strategy, the world’s largest publicly traded Bitcoin holder, has maintained an 11.5% dividend on its perennial favorite, Stretch (STRC). This is the first time the product has not seen a dividend increase since the product was launched in July 2025. STRC debuted in July 2025 with a 9% dividend and has since gone through seven
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