Federally chartered crypto bank Anchorage Digital is rolling out infrastructure that allows banks to issue tokenized deposits, joining a growing effort by financial institutions to bring traditional bank money onto bloc…
Bitcoin's mining network is becoming increasingly sensitive to price movements as more miners operate near breakeven levels, according to Wall Street bank JPMorgan.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is leading an OKX and New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) joint venture to build infrastructure to bridge traditional and digital financial markets.
Michael Saylor and his embattled Strategy (MSTR) sold more common stock last week, using the proceeds to add a relatively small amount of bitcoin and $300 million in cash to its balance sheet.
Baillie Gifford, a 118-year-old investment firm based in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, unveiled a fixed-income tokenized fund in association with global custody giant BNY, the companies said on Monday.
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The Bank of England officially reversed its controversial proposal to limit how much stablecoin individuals and consumers could hold, bowing to pressure from a U.K. House of Lords committee and the crypto industry.
Taiko, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that processes transactions off the main chain and settles them back to it, halted block production and told users to pull their funds after an attacker exploited its bridge earlier Mo…
Despite the green shoots among the majors, the broader market has yet to follow suit. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) remains slightly lower over 24 hours. Still, smaller outliers like DEXE and BEAT jumped of 8% and 5%.
For years, users looking to speed up their transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain relied on a handy optional feature that essentially says, "I might want to replace this transaction with a higher fee."
Bitcoin is trading around $64,000, per CoinDesk pricing data, still searching for a catalyst strong enough to break the range it has held for weeks.
XRP briefly broke below a closely watched support level on Sunday before buyers stepped in.
Ethereum’s long-running funding debate has a new proposal: Make validators, who secure the world's leading smart contract blockchain, pay for more of the network’s shared costs.
Bitcoin started the week drifting near $64,000, sitting out a rally in Asian equities as the US and Iran moved closer to a lasting peace deal.
CME Group filed a lawsuit against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission alleging it should not have approved Kalshi's perpetual futures contracts the way it did and asking a court to vacate the approval and self-cert…
Bitcoin steadied near $64,000 over the weekend, clawing back part of Friday's drop, as traders weighed the start of US-Iran ceasefire talks against a renewed threat to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Jaredfromsubway.eth, one of Ethereum’s most infamous MEV bots, has been drained for more than $7.5 million after an attacker turned the bot’s own automated trading logic against it.
STRC, the dividend-paying preferred equity issued by bitcoin treasury company Strategy (MSTR), is designed to hold a price of $100, its par value. It doesn't always work that way.
Charles Schwab is working with Cboe Global Markets to launch a new type of options contract that would allow customers to make yes-or-no wagers on the performance of the S&P 500, marking the brokerage's first move into …
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The digital credit market suffered one of its sharpest selloffs to date on Thursday, with Strive Asset Management CEO Matt Cole describing the move as a leverage-driven liquidation rather than a sign of weakening credit…
Where GoMining says it differs from incumbents is that the entire transaction is completed in bitcoin. Many competitors, including Square, allow customers to pay in bitcoin while delivering fiat currency to the retailer…
The largest cryptocurrencies remained under pressure for a fourth straight day, with bitcoin falling 2.5% in 24 hours to just below $62,400.
