Fifty days into 2026, Bitcoin is experiencing its worst start to a fiscal year on record, according to data from Checkonchain. The asset is down 23% year to date, after falling 10% in January and another 15% in February. Bitcoin has never recorded a consecutive decline in January and February, according to Coinglass data. While […]
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KuCoin EU expands its local compliance and governance team in Austria
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said he now sees a 90% chance that the long-debated Clarity Act will be passed by the end of April, signaling growing confidence within the crypto industry that U.S. lawmakers could finally provide the much-sought regulatory certainty. Speaking on Fox Business, Garlinghouse said momentum has picked up following renewed engagement from
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Bitcoin mining difficulty soared to 144.4 trillion (T), up 15%, the largest percentage increase since 2021, when China’s mining ban led to major disruption, which followed a 22% upward adjustment as the network stabilized. Difficulty adjustments measure the difficulty of mining a new block on the network. It recalibrates every 2,016 blocks, approximately every two
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Cryptocurrency prices firmed during Friday morning trading in Asia, with bitcoin climbing as high as $68,000 after a turbulent week that tested the nerves of risk-off markets. The rebound was broad. XRP, the SOL of Solana, DOGE$0.09902 and Cardano’s ADA rose as much as 2%, while ether lagged slightly lower, hovering below $2,000, with traders
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Simon Gerovich, CEO of Metaplanet (3350), responded to online criticism of the Tokyo-listed Bitcoin cash company as Bitcoin is down nearly 50% from its all-time high in October and is now trading at nearly $67,000, while Metaplanet shares have fallen about 85% from their 2025 all-time high. Addressing anonymous critics, Gerovich said: “It’s easy to
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According to a new survey compiled by YouGov, the majority of stablecoin users want their banks to make it easier for them to buy and spend stablecoins for regular transactions. Some 77% of 4,658 respondents said they would open a cryptocurrency or stablecoin wallet in their banking or fintech app if one was available. The
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SG-FORGE, the digital assets arm of Société Générale, has deployed its euro stablecoin, EUR CoinVertible, on the XRP Ledger, expanding beyond its existing integrations on Ethereum and Solana as competition heats up in the race for regulated stablecoins in Europe. EUR CoinVertible is issued under French digital asset rules and is backed 1:1 by cash
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Figure Technology Solutions (FIGR), the blockchain company led by former SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, is launching a new tokenized stock class on Thursday that trades entirely on blockchain rails, eliminating traditional middlemen, the company told CoinDesk. The equity token, dubbed FGRD, will be available on Figure’s Onchain Public Equity Network (OPEN), where it is issued,
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 1909.21, down 0.9% (-18.15) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. None of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BTC (-0.3%) and BNB (-0.5%). Laggards: ICP (-3.5%) and
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