The SEC’s fresh approval of Nasdaq’s tokenized securities framework marks an important turning point for how stocks could trade in the future: it brings blockchain into the core of US stock markets, but on Wall Street’s terms. The regulatory green light allows Nasdaq to test a system where certain stocks and ETFs can be issued […]
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 2039.71, up 0.2% (+4.1) since 4 PM ET Thursday. Fourteen of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: APT (+6.3%) and BCH (+2.5%). Lagging behind: AAVE (-1.0%) and NEAR (-0.6%).
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Web3 has always been cyclical, but it has never stopped building. Markets rally and regress, narratives rotate and evolve, but founders continue to ship products and search for their moment to be seen. In an ecosystem where launching a protocol or token can happen quickly, it’s harder than ever to stand out. This is where
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Just weeks ago, the interest rate debate in the US centered on how many rate cuts the Federal Reserve would have in 2026. But with the economy showing only faint signs of slowing, inflation remaining above the central bank’s 2% target and oil prices rising 50% in three weeks, interest rate traders are starting to
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Ledger has named a new chief financial officer and opened an office in New York as the crypto-security firm expands its US presence ahead of a planned public listing. The company said John Andrews, a former Circle ( CRCL ) executive, will take on the CFO role. Andrews spent more than two decades in finance,
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Kalshi Inc. raised more than $1 billion in a funding round led by Coatue Management, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The round valued the prediction market platform at $22 billion, Bloomberg said, double the valuation of the previous round in December, when it also raised $1 billion. That funding round was
Coinbase ( COIN ) said it began offering perpetual equity futures to qualified non-U.S. retail and institutional traders, expanding its derivatives product line for U.S. stocks. The contracts let traders take leveraged positions on a group of major US stocks, colloquially known as the Magnificent 7: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta and Tesla. Perpetual
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By Francisco Rodrigues (all times ET unless otherwise noted) Bitcoin BTC$70,599.39 has stabilized above $70,000. Its relative strength is notable given the week’s sales, which saw it drop from over $75,000. Most assets saw sharp declines during the period as the conflict in Iran escalated and damaged vital energy infrastructure. A warmer-than-expected US PPI pressure
Crypto markets were little changed on Friday, with the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) largely unchanged. Bitcoin BTC$70,697.91 is up just 0.8% since midnight UTC and ether (ETH) added less than 0.1%. Crude oil prices fell below $100 on Thursday and recently traded at $96 a barrel. barrel, as the United States is said to be
No longer a fringe experiment in finance, digital assets are fast becoming a core part of how banks, asset managers, fintechs and enterprises plan to move money, store value and manage risk. That’s the key to fintech firm Ripple’s survey of more than 1,000 global finance executives, which reveals how the industry sees digital assets
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