CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of the leaders and laggards of the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2210.86, up 2.5% (+53.36) since 4 p.m. ET Tuesday. All 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: NEAR (+16.0%) and ICP (+10.4%). Laggards: BTC (+0.9%) and ETH (+1.5%). The […]
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Morgan Stanley is expanding its digital assets push by rolling out crypto trading on its E*Trade platform, positioning the offering as a lower-cost option compared to established retail crypto services. The bank is currently running a pilot project that charges E*Trade users a fee of 50 basis points on the value of the transaction, according
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Multicoin Capital has built a “significant position” in zcash (ZEC), co-founder and managing partner Tushar Jain told Consensus Miami, linking the purchase to the idea that private stores of value will matter more as finance moves up the chain. Jain did not disclose the size of the position. He said Bitcoin BTC$82,164.36 can withstand protocol-level
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The crypto market was volatile Tuesday evening after Strategy (MSTR) President Michael Saylor said his company might sell Bitcoin. BTC$82,212.57 in order to pay dividends from the STRC instrument, causing a short-lived panic in the price action. BTC, however, regained the $82,000 mark on Wednesday morning in Europe, after rising around 1.3% since midnight UTC,
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Risk assets rallied around the world and oil slumped during Monday’s European session, as reports of progress in U.S.-Iran peace talks boosted risk sentiment. Bitcoin BTC$81,476.63 Asian gains were extended to trade near $82,000 during European hours, as futures linked to Wall Street’s tech index Nasdaq rose more than 1%. WTI crude oil futures fell
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OKX is preparing to offer perpetual futures contracts linked to private companies including OpenAI, SpaceX and Anthropic, intensifying the growing race among crypto companies to bring pre-IPO speculation markets on-chain, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. The contracts will provide synthetic price exposure to private companies ahead of their planned IPO, without
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Cryptocurrency custody company Taurus has been granted a MiFID II investment license in Cyprus under regulation by the Mediterranean island’s regulator, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). The license allows Taurus to offer MiFID-regulated investment services for tokenized financial instruments to banks and asset managers in the European Union (EU), as well as secondary
The line separating crypto derivatives from traditional finance has all but disappeared, and the two markets are now so closely intertwined that perpetuals, once a purely crypto instrument, may soon be as much a stock trading product as a crypto product. That’s the key takeaway from the “Digital Asset Derivatives: Creating Ecosystems and Establishing Opportunities”
Demand for U.S. stocks is growing globally, pushing investors to look beyond domestic markets, Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood’s senior vice president and general manager in charge of crypto, said during a fireside chat at Consensus 2026 in Miami. “We are seeing strong demand for U.S. stocks from foreign investors, particularly related to AI-related companies,” Kerbrat said,
