The Indian rupee and Philippine peso fell to record lows. Japan and South Korea have spent billions propping up their currencies to avoid the same fate. The Indonesian rupiah is weaker today than it was at the height of the Asian financial crisis. For Asian countries that rely heavily on imported energy, the war in […]
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The Trump administration announced Thursday that it has signed preliminary agreements to provide $2 billion in financing and take equity stakes in nine companies related to quantum computing. The move aims to promote an emerging IT field in the United States that has led to innovation in medicine, business and science. It would also significantly
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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 2062.9, down 0.5% (-9.64) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Five of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: NEAR (+4.1%) and TAO (+1.6%). Lagging behind: ICP (-1.6%)
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Blockchain.com said it has confidentially filed documents with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed initial public offering (IPO). The number of shares to be offered and the proposed price range have not yet been determined, according to a statement released Thursday. A confidential filing allows companies to begin the review
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Hyperliquid’s HYPE is the crypto outlier, up 16.5% in the last 24 hours to hit a new all-time high.
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AmericanFortress researchers have introduced a patent-pending post-quantum signature system that could secure the global crypto ecosystem against future quantum attacks without requiring mass migrations of funds. According to the company, this breakthrough means that even Satoshi Nakamoto’s massive stash of 1.1 million bitcoins, as well as nearly 5 million BTC in dormant accounts, can be
MoonPay is betting that institutions want broader access to on-chain financial products beyond just crypto purchases. The crypto payments company announced Thursday that it has launched MoonPay Trade, a platform designed to connect banks, fintechs and enterprises to tokenized assets, decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and stable liquidity across more than 200 blockchains through a single
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Billionaire investor Mark Cuban said he sold most of his bitcoins BTC$77,640.65 holdings after losing confidence in cryptocurrency’s role as a hedge against weakening fiat currencies and geopolitical instability. Cuban, whose net worth is around $10 billion, said Bitcoin’s price behavior during the recent Iranian conflict called into question one of the main reasons he
Days after the more abrupt departures of several prominent Ethereum Foundation researchers and contributors, the EF’s silence has only deepened the uncertainty within the Ethereum community. What began earlier this week as shock over new exits from key figures has now evolved into something more existential, according to some in the community: a public question
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Amid its postseason surge, professional hockey’s largest league has agreed to coordinate betting oversight on popular prediction markets with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, entering into a new memorandum of understanding similar to one recently struck with Major League Baseball. The National Hockey League, which last year formally partnered with Kalshi and Polymarket as
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