Flow Traders, one of the world’s leading market makers in exchange-traded products, said on Tuesday that it is bringing its decades of TradFi expertise to tokenized assets with the launch of 24/7 over-the-counter (OTC) liquidity. The move arms institutional clients with a new tool that allows them to manage risk and keep capital flowing via […]
Silent bitcoin BTC$70,855.30 Price action in the $74,000 area was crushed Wednesday morning on reports of military escalation in Iran and then February inflation data that came in far stronger than expected. The declines started as US President Donald Trump struck a more aggressive tone towards Iran, hinting at further escalation in a series of
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Institutional investors remain broadly bullish on digital assets despite recent market volatility, but are becoming more selective about how they gain exposure, according to a new study from Coinbase and EY-Parthenon. The January 2026 survey of 351 institutional decision makers found that 73% plan to increase their digital asset allocations this year, while 74% expect
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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 2102.78, down 3.1% (-68.15) since 4 PM ET Tuesday. None of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: DOT (-0.6%) and BNB (-1.9%). Lagging behind: UNI (-4.9%) and AAVE
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Bitcoin’s hash rate falls as conflict in the Middle East drives up energy prices, adding pressure to the mining sector and the wider market. The drop in the hash rate is likely tied to geopolitical tensions due to the war on Iran and the rise in oil prices, given that an estimated 8% to 10%
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U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis, a lawmaker at the center of negotiations over the crypto industry’s main policy goal of passing a market structure bill, said negotiations are likely to have reached the necessary compromises to advance the legislation. “We think we’ve got it,” Lummis, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee’s digital assets subcommittee, said
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S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Wednesday that it is bringing the S&P 500 to the blockchain via the Hyperliquid platform, making it easier for investors to trade the most-tracked stock index 24 hours a day. The company said it licensed its flagship stock index for trading[XYZ]which is launching the first officially authorized S&P 500 perpetual
American Bitcoin (ABTC), a mining and finance company linked to the Trump family, now has more bitcoin BTC$74,191.24 than Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital (GLXY). The company owns 6,899 BTC, worth about $491 million, passing Galaxy’s 6,894 BTC to become the 16th largest public holder of the asset, according to data from BitcoinTreasuries.net. The shift highlights
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Changpeng “CZ” Zhao embraced a chance to distance himself from recent allegations against Binance that it has been involved in handling transactions that potentially enabled the financing of terrorism in Iran. “I have no interest in doing that,” said the founder and former CEO of the exchange, who agreed to leave his company under a
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Prediction market platform Polymarket announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Brahma, a financial infrastructure company that built real-time execution and settlement systems for high-volume digital asset and fintech transactions. “[Brahma has] has quickly become an industry leader in building and developing programmable systems across blockchain, trade execution and payments,” Polymarket said in an emailed press
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