CoinDesk’s Hong Kong Consensus 2026 is here. Over the next two days, more than 10,000 attendees will hear from more than 350 speakers across five stages to discuss tokenization, stablecoins, AI and much more. The conference comes just after crypto markets went through a period of intense volatility. Bitcoin BTC$68,747.00 crashed from over $95,000 to […]
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Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, is seeking a new trial, according to a request filed in a New York federal court by his mother. Since being convicted and jailed for 25 years, SBF has continued to challenge his situation in court. The latest motion for a new trial, first reported
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Former SafeMoon CEO Braden John Karony will face an 8-year prison sentence after being convicted last year of a series of federal charges related to defrauding investors in his digital assets business. The 100-month sentence was handed down Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and Karony must also
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By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless otherwise noted) Bitcoin BTC$69,043.96 slipped to $68,500 on Tuesday, after failing to reclaim $70,000 after trading above that level for some time over the weekend. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) fell 0.23% in the last 24 hours. The market appears to be stabilizing after last week’s drop to
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has called for a rethink of how crypto and AI should come together, warning that the growing focus on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) risks missing the bigger picture. In an article on Rather than rushing to build more powerful AI systems, he says the goal should be to guide AI
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Following the usual recent trend, crypto markets fell sharply when US stocks opened on Tuesday, but recovered most of those losses just as quickly. In mid-morning trading, Bitcoin BTC$69,836.89 was at $69,200, down slightly from 24 hours ago. Ether ETH$2,039.41 underperformed, down 1.8%, with similar declines in XRP XRP$1.4279 and Solana GROUND$84.87. Although bitcoin’s current
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The crypto market downturn has been particularly hard on major US exchange Coinbase (COIN), which has seen its stock plunge more than 50% since bitcoin’s record high above $126,000 in early October, including a 27% decline in 2026 alone. Attempting to make up for this rapid fall, JPMorgan’s Ken Worthington cut his price target on
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Tether Investments, the investment arm of the leading stablecoin issuer, has made a strategic investment in LayerZero Labs, which is developing an interoperability protocol called LayerZero. The move is essentially a bet on the technology behind USDt0, a blockchain-agnostic version of Tether’s dollar-pegged token that has moved more than $70 billion across blockchains in less
Kraken has fired its chief financial officer, Stephanie Lemmerman, just as the crypto exchange prepares to list publicly in the United States early this year, according to two people familiar with the matter. Lemmerman joined Kraken from Dapper Labs in November 2024 and served as the exchange’s CFO for one year and four months. She
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Cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Blockchain.com has won regulatory approval in the UK almost four years after apparently giving up. Blockchain.com was added to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) register of authorized crypto companies on Tuesday under its trading name “BC Operations”. STORY CONTINUES BELOW Don’t miss another story.Subscribe to the State of Crypto newsletter
