The 11 U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs broke trading records last week, with cumulative volumes exceeding $40.32 billion, indicating likely institutional capitulation. BlackRock’s IBIT leads the industry with $27.79 billion in trading volume, or nearly 70% of the total, according to data source SoSoValue. On Friday alone, these funds saw trading volume of more than $11.01 […]
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DOGE$0.1429 looked beyond the demise of Elon Musk’s DOGE department as it climbed in Asian markets on Monday, buoyed by renewed optimism sparked by Grayscale’s upcoming introduction of a DOGE coin ETF. Loading… CoinDesk market data shows that DOGE was trading around $0.145 on Monday, with a daily gain of more than 3%, outpacing the
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Today, when a woman gets behind the wheel of a vehicle, she is protected by safety features – from seat belts to airbags – that were largely designed to protect the average man about 50 years ago. But in the United States, female drivers are 73 percent more likely than male drivers to be seriously
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Bitcoin’s fall to $84,000 is less about mood than mechanics, says Greg Cipolaro, Global Head of Research at NYDIG. In a report, Cipolaro said the key drivers of the 2024-2025 rally had gone into reverse. Spot Bitcoin ETFs, once the main source of demand in the cycle, are now showing persistent buybacks. These vehicles pumped
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The rebooted Senate is moving forward with some crypto initiatives, but how much time is really left compared to the amount of work remaining? You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter that examines the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to subscribe to future editions. The story Now that Congress is back after
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Wormhole Labs introduced the Sunrise platform on Sunday with the aim of becoming the primary entry point for new digital assets into the Solana ecosystem. The platform introduces a unified gateway that allows issuers and users to move tokens from any ecosystem to the Solana blockchain. The debut comes just before Monad and its token,
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Crypto markets climbed on Sunday as Bitcoin issued an extreme oversold signal and more than $200 million in liquidations helped ease selling pressure on major tokens. Bitcoin BTC$86,791.01 was trading at nearly $86,466 as of 1:36 p.m. UTC, up about 2.7% from what crypto analyst Ali Martinez had highlighted earlier in the day. Martinez said
As global markets continue to absorb the prospect of new U.S. trade barriers, central bank officials in Europe and Asia warn that the volatility they create in bond markets could reveal another hidden risk. Similar to the 2008 Lehman Brothers debacle, which triggered a $600 billion run on money market funds, forced the sale of
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As tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) increases, the crypto industry is entering uncharted territory, bringing traditional equities, private credit, and commercial paper on-chain and uncovering potential critical risks along the way. Marcin Kaźmierczak, co-founder of oracle provider RedStone, says one risk is potentially being overlooked: weekends, where cryptocurrencies trade 24/7, while Wall Street does not.
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A malformed transaction pushed Cardano into a brief chain split on Saturday, as older and newer node versions validated transaction data submitted to the network differently. This mismatch caused some block producers to follow a “poisoned” chain while others remained on the normal chain, triggering an emergency patch and network-wide upgrade instructions. The incident –
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