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 2039.71, up 0.2% (+4.1) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. Fourteen out of twenty assets are trading upwards. Leaders: APT (+6.3%) and BCH (+2.5%). Lagging behind: AAVE (-1.0%) […]
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Web3 has always been cyclical, but it has never stopped growing. Markets bounce and retrace, narratives spin and evolve, but founders continue to ship products and seek their moment to be seen. In an ecosystem where the launch of a protocol or token can happen quickly, it is more difficult than ever to stand out.
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Just a few weeks ago, the U.S. interest rate debate centered on how many rate cuts the Federal Reserve will make in 2026. But with the economy showing only weak signs of slowing, inflation remaining above the central bank’s 2% target, and oil prices rising 50% in three weeks, rates traders are starting to consider
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Ledger has named a new CFO and opened an office in New York as the crypto security company expands its presence in the United States ahead of a planned public listing. The company said John Andrews, a former Circle (CRCL) executive, will take on the role of CFO. Andrews has spent more than two decades
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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, where it also raised $1 billion. This funding round was
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Coinbase (COIN) said it has begun offering perpetual stock futures contracts to eligible non-US retail and institutional traders, expanding its derivatives offering to US stocks. The contracts allow traders to take leveraged positions in a group of large-cap U.S. 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$70,442.96 has stabilized above $70,000. Its relative strength is remarkable considering the week’s selloff, which sent it down more than $75,000. Most assets saw sharp declines during the period as the conflict in Iran intensified, damaging vital energy infrastructure. A warmer than expected US PPI
Crypto markets were little changed on Friday, with the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) largely unchanged. Bitcoin BTC$70,579.90 has gained just 0.8% since midnight UTC and ether (ETH) has added less than 0.1%. Crude oil prices fell below $100 on Thursday and were recently trading at $96 a barrel, with the United States apparently evaluating whether
Digital assets are no longer a fringe experiment in finance: they are quickly becoming an essential part of how banks, asset managers, fintechs and businesses think about moving money, storing value and managing risk. That’s the key takeaway from fintech company Ripple’s survey of more than 1,000 global financial executives, which reveals the extent to
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Bitcoin BTC$70,483.40 The evolution of prices gives us a feeling of déjà vu, and it is not the right one. If you look at the price movements since the beginning of February, a very specific and worrying trend is forming that looks strikingly similar to the pattern we saw between November and January. This build
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