Tokenization has become one of crypto’s favorite buzzwords, but Grayscale research head Zach Pandl said investors should think of it less as a single transaction and more as a long road map with different winners at different stages. Speaking at the EthCC conference in Cannes, France, Pandl said the trend is still in its infancy. […]
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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 1968.28, up 1.0% (+20.29) since yesterday’s close. Eighteen of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: AVAX (+4.0%) and HBAR (+3.6%). Lagging behind: BCH (-2.1%) and BNB (+0.0%).
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Wall Street asset management giant Franklin Templeton is launching a dedicated cryptocurrency division as it deepens its digital assets business, anchored by the planned acquisition of cryptocurrency investment firm 250 Digital. The new unit, called Franklin Crypto, will bring together the 250 Digital team and its liquid crypto strategies – previously managed by CoinFund –
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Bitcoin’s reputation has historically been built on extreme boom and bust cycles, with steep declines of up to 90% following all-time highs. This cycle, however, the decline has been closer to 50%, a change that analysts say reflects the maturation of BTC as an asset class. “Bitcoin’s declines compressing to around 50% are a sign
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Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI closed $122 billion in committed capital for a post-money valuation of $852 billion, a round that eclipses anything raised in private markets and cements the company by far as the most valuable startup in history. Funding was provided by Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank, with continued participation from Microsoft. SoftBank was co-led
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Brazil’s main exchange, B3, will offer six new derivatives contracts on April 27 that will allow investors to bet on the likelihood of future events, ranging from the price of bitcoin to movements of the dollar and the Ibovespa index. The instruments, called Event Contracts, operate on a similar framework to prediction markets like Kalshi
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Crypto markets rallied on Wednesday as oil momentarily fell below $100 a barrel after US President Donald Trump said the war in Iran would end in “two to three weeks.” Bitcoin BTC$68,547.42 is trading at $68,500 after rising 0.4% since midnight UTC and 3.1% over the past 24 hours, while ether (ETH) is back at
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U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs ended March with $1.32 billion in net inflows to record their first monthly inflows since October, according to SoSoValue data. This follows four straight months of net outflows, which coincided with bitcoin falling as much as 50% from its all-time high of $126,000 in October. November saw $3.5 billion in capital
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Since its creation, bitcoin BTC$68,535.76 has been like a daredevil climber scaling new peaks, rarely looking at the ledges he left behind. Its price has rarely returned to previous bull market highs, even during long and grueling bear markets. But that trend appears to have changed, suggesting that the market has matured and the era
Strategy, the world’s largest publicly traded Bitcoin holder, has maintained the 11.5% dividend rate on its perpetual preferred stock, Stretch (STRC). This is the first time the product has not seen a dividend increase since the product launched in July 2025. STRC debuted in July 2025 with a 9% dividend and has since seen seven
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