Coinbase (COIN), the crypto exchange that plans to add prediction markets to its platform, is filing lawsuits in Connecticut, Illinois and Michigan over states’ attempts to regulate these markets. The company filed the lawsuit to “confirm what is clear,” legal director Paul Grewal wrote in an article on Prediction markets allow users to speculate on […]
Bybit, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume traded, said it had returned to the UK two years after stricter rules around the promotion and marketing of cryptocurrency services forced it to withdraw. The company, which has some 80 million users worldwide, restarted its services in the UK on Thursday, including spot trading on 100 currency
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PayPal (PYPL) is expanding the role of its stablecoin PYUSD to finance artificial intelligence, linking it to on-chain financing mechanisms developed by USD.AI, a stablecoin protocol that provides credit to AI companies. Loans issued by USD.AI to finance graphics processing units (GPUs), data centers, and associated AI infrastructure will be denominated in PYUSD, with borrowers
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Even as the White House’s push for a federal crypto reserve slowed down in 2025, many U.S. states were considering and pushing similar ideas, and much of this work was supported by Dennis Porter and the Satoshi Action Fund. This feature is part of CoinDesk 2025 Most Influential List. A few of these efforts are
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Bitcoin and ether climbed above key technical levels on Friday, tracking gains in Asian stocks after the Bank of Japan raised interest rates to their highest level in three decades and cooling U.S. inflation data revived appetite for risk assets. Bitcoin topped $87,000 in Asian trading, while ether advanced alongside broader market strength as investors
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XRP rose 4.26% to $1.85 during Wednesday’s session, recovering strongly from its initial weakness, although overall participation remained subdued. News context Underlying sentiment towards XRP increased slightly after VivoPower announced a partnership with Lean Ventures to acquire the shares of Ripple Labs, indirectly providing exposure to nearly $1 billion worth of XRP. The joint venture
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DAWN, a decentralized protocol designed to provide user-owned and operated multi-gigabit broadband service, said it has raised $13 million in a Series B funding round led by Polychain Capital. The money will be used to expand the Solana-based protocol’s network coverage across the United States and roll out international deployments, according to an announcement shared
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Bitcoin BTC$86,817.46 The currency strengthened as the Japanese yen fell after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised interest rates as expected. Japan’s central bank raised its short-term policy rate by 25 basis points to 0.75%, the highest level in about three decades, continuing its gradual shift away from decades of ultra-accommodative monetary policy. In its
Bitcoin BTC$86,370.00 The sharp rejection at $90,000 on Wednesday was a quick reminder to investors that precious metals like gold and silver are the real winners in the depreciation trade, and not – at least for now – digital gold. Last October, JPMorgan analysts said that gold and bitcoin both benefited and would continue to
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