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 3576.17, up 1.3% (+44.29) since 4 PM ET Wednesday. Fifteen out of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: SOL (+4.5%) and BCH (+2.0%). Lagging behind: APT (-1.3%) and LTC […]
Solana (SOL) gains 4.5% as the index trades higher Read More »
As token buybacks gain popularity in crypto, Amir Hajian, head of research at market making firm Keyrock, warns in a new report that every dollar spent buying back tokens is a dollar derived from growth and innovation, underscoring the hidden opportunity costs behind the trust statement. Token buybacks involve blockchain projects repurchasing their own tokens
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Aave Labs, the company behind decentralized finance (DeFi) giant Aave, said it acquired Stable Finance, a San Francisco-based startup focused on making onchain savings simple for everyday users. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The move brings Stable’s founder, Mario Baxter Cabrera, and his engineering team to Aave Labs, where they will help build
Digital asset infrastructure firm Fireblocks has acquired Dynamic, a developer platform used by companies such as Kraken, Magic Eden and Ondo Finance, to accelerate enterprise adoption of onchain applications. The deal creates what Fireblocks calls the first complete custody-to-consumer stack, combining its security infrastructure with Dynamics wallet, authentication and user onboarding tools, according to an
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In today’s “Crypto for Advisors” newsletter, Parshant K. Kher of EY-Parthenon breaks down the results of their recent stablecoin survey and highlights the optimism in the industry since the GENIUS Act’s launch. Then, in “Ask an Expert”, Kieran Mitha answers questions about what stablecoins are, use cases and rules. Thanks to our sponsor for this
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Your keys, your coins. It’s one of the fundamental promises of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, removing the middlemen that stand between you and your money. But the phrase also contains a latent assumption that Web3 companies would be wise to move on from: that any security problems are the owner’s problem, not theirs. That thinking
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Institutional investors pour into CME Group’s regulated crypto derivatives markets, setting a series of records across ether futures and options ETH$3,866.07solana SUN$191.71 and XRP, CME told CoinDesk on Thursday. Since Oct. 10, open interest across CME’s crypto futures and options is up 27%, an increase the exchange attributes to a shift away from offshore markets
Institutions Drive $9B CME Crypto Options Like ETH, SOL, XRP Set Records Read More »
Crypto markets were in rally mode on Thursday alongside significant gains in stocks, a US presidential pardon for Binance founder Changpeng Zhao and ahead of tomorrow’s key reading on September inflation. Mid-afternoon trading in the US, bitcoin BTC$110,639.05 had risen 2.7% over the past 24 hours to $110,700, a hair off the day’s high of
Bitcoin Price (BTC) News: Modest Rally Thursday Read More »
AMINA Bank, a FINMA-regulated crypto bank based in Switzerland, has partnered with Tokeny, a blockchain platform owned by Apex Group, to create a regulated infrastructure for institutional tokenization, the companies said Thursday. The agreement is designed to provide financial institutions with “a regulated banking bridge” to issue and manage tokenized assets, such as government bonds,
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HBAR fell 1.4% on Tuesday as bearish momentum intensified, driving the token from $0.1698 to $0.1675. The move followed a failed attempt to regain the $0.1700 resistance level, with sellers pushing prices below the key $0.1650 support. Trading volume surged 68% above its 24-hour average to 105.45 million tokens around 10 p.m. 21:00 UTC, which
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