Bitcoin BTC$81,066.72the world’s largest digital asset by market value, has risen from around $63,000 to over $80,000 over the past three months. And the key signals that professionals are watching closely are now all pointing in the same direction: $85,000. The rally is not just about price, but also about the ripples beneath the surface. […]
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The crypto rally stalled on Thursday as stocks continued to climb. Bitcoin BTC$82,164.36 was trading at $80,945 during Asian hours, down 0.7% over 24 hours but still up 6.9% over the week. Ether (ETH) slipped 2% to $2,326, and DOGE$0.1106 was the main laggard, falling 4.4% to $0.1106 after last week’s run brought its 30-day
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The White House is targeting July 4 for Congress to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, said Wednesday at CoinDesk’s Miami Consensus Conference. “We’re aiming for the Fourth of July. I think it would be a great birthday present to America,
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Spot Bitcoin ETFs have overcome the long-standing barrier of entry to crypto by placing bitcoin in brokerage and advisor accounts already used for stocks and bonds. Two and a half years later, panelists at CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference agreed that some of it worked. However, they said custody concentration, modest reliance on counselors and back-office
NFTs are expected to experience a “renaissance” as AI agents force the internet to solve new problems of identity and trust, Reid Hoffman said at CoinDesk’s Miami Consensus conference on Wednesday. The Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder said agents transacting with other agents will need trusted digital identity systems that resemble what NFTs were originally
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The Bitcoin developer community should stop waiting for certainty on quantum computing timelines and focus on getting a post-quantum signing system into production, Alex Pruden, CEO of Project Eleven, said Wednesday at CoinDesk’s Consensus conference in Miami. Pruden said the asymmetry between acting now and waiting favors action. “We added new crypto, we kind of
What was once considered a fringe speculative move is quickly becoming part of the global financial plumbing, according to Binance, Revolut and Circle (CRCL) executives speaking at Consensus Miami on Wednesday. “We were in the era of prohibition,” said Rachel Conlan, chief marketing officer at Binance. “We are now in the infrastructure phase.” Conlan said
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The Wall Street clearinghouse is working with blockchain developers to bring online one of the least glamorous but operationally complex functions of the capital market: securities trading. Frank La Salla, CEO of Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), said Wednesday at Consensus 2026 in Miami that the market infrastructure giant is collaborating with multiple Layer
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Nasdaq Chairman Tal Cohen said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) changing approach to crypto regulation gives market operators more leeway to experiment with blockchain-based infrastructure and tokenized assets. Speaking at Consensus in Miami on Wednesday, Cohen said the industry now feels it can “build back” again after years of
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Grant Cardone, a multi-billionaire real estate investor, said Wednesday he added another $100 million in bitcoin as part of a strategy combining the asset with income-generating real estate, during a fireside chat at Consensus Miami 2026. “We just added another $100 million in Bitcoin,” Cardone said, describing a recent real estate transaction in which BTC
