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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 3956.13, down 0.5% (-21.14) since 4 PM ET Tuesday. Three out of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: SOL (+2.8%) and XRP (+0.2%). Lagging behind: ICP (-5.6%) and HBAR […]

Pakinomist — Analysts at Standard Chartered (OTC:) are urging clients to take advantage of price declines in and forecast medium-term gains in cryptocurrencies despite market uncertainty. In a note on Wednesday, the bank highlighted the absence of digital asset-related policies in President Trump’s initial executive orders as a key factor behind the recent price corrections,

Dogecoin (DOGE) regained Tuesday’s gains while Solana’s SOL jumped 8% higher as crypto markets rebounded on Wednesday to reverse some losses from earlier in the week. DOGE fell 7.5% on profit-taking, data showed, to trade at 36 cents in European midday hours, paring gains after a jump from 34 cents to 38 cents on Tuesday

Pakinomist – US President Donald Trump has granted a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground online marketplace known for illegal trading. Ulbricht, 40, was serving a life sentence for facilitating over $200 million in illegal transactions using bitcoin. Ulbricht’s arrest in 2013 and subsequent sentencing in 2015

Hashprice, a metric invented by Luxor that measures the profitability of mining, estimates miners’ daily income relative to their estimated contribution to the Bitcoin network’s hashing power. In other words, it is the expected value that miners can expect from 1 TH/s of hash power per day. According to Glassnode, the hash price is hovering

On Tuesday, bitcoin (BTC) options on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) showed the strongest bullish sentiment since Donald Trump’s November 5 election victory. Traders sought to buy calls or options that offered asymmetric upside exposure, pushing the bias up to 4.4%, the most since early November, according to data tracked by digital asset index provider

Long-term holders of bitcoin (BTC) appear to be ending their selling spree, a change in strategy that helped convert the psychological resistance price of $100,000 into a support level for the first time. With one, short-lived exception, the largest cryptocurrency has held above $100,000 since January 17th. The past few days have been extremely volatile

Jupiter, a Solana-based decentralized exchange, will send 700 million JUP tokens to its community on Wednesday in what it calls the “largest airdrop in history.” The airdrop is part of the project’s annual “Jupuary” event, which was voted to co-exist with another event in 2026 in a government referendum in December. It is scheduled to

Eric Conner, a prominent core developer at Ethereum, has left the ecosystem community after a nearly 11-year association, citing network co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s rejection of a leadership shake-up proposal. Conner co-authored EIP-1559, the major network change that changed how transaction fees worked on Ethereum. He is not officially employed by Ethereum, but has advised, invested,

Shaurya Malwa Shaurya co-leads the CoinDesk tokens and data team in Asia, focusing on crypto derivatives, DeFi, market microstructure and protocol analysis. Shaurya has over $1,000 in BTC, ETH, SOL, AVAX, SUSHI, CRV, NEAR, YFI, YFII, SHIB, DOGE, USDT, USDC, BNB, MANA, MLN, LINK, XMR, ALGO, VET, CAKE, AAVE, COMP , ROOK, TRX, SNX, RUNE,