Michael Saylor's Strategy acquires another 1,587 bitcoin for $100 million
Strategy (MSTR) last week acquired 1,587 bitcoin for approximately $100 million, increasing its total holdings to 846,842 BTC, according to a Monday morning filing.
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U.S.-Iran deal lifts equities, sends oil lower, while crypto stays wary
The U.S.-Iran peace deal reached over the weekend provided the stimulus many markets had been waiting for.
Ark Invest bought more than $500 million worth of SpaceX shares on IPO day
ARK Invest bought nearly 3.3 million shares of SpaceX (SPCX) as Elon Musk's company went public in the largest IPO ever on Friday, building a stake worth more than $500 million by the end of the day.
Middle East ceasfire, Fed interest-rate decision: Crypto Week Ahead
Crypto Week Ahead is a comprehensive list of what's coming up in the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as the major macroeconomic events that will influence digital asset markets.
Bitcoin hits a two-week high above $65,500 as the US-Iran deal sends oil sliding
Bitcoin climbed to its highest level in nearly two weeks after the US and Iran reached a deal to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, removing the energy-supply fear that had weighed on markets for months.
Trump-linked stablecoin used for bonus payouts at White House UFC contest
USD1, the stablecoin issued by the Trump family's crypto venture World Liberty Financial, has gone from locking retail depositors out of a DeFi lending pool to being used to pay fighters on the White House lawn.
Bitcoin shoots higher on Iran peace deal, with Strait of Hormuz set to open
The US and Iran said they reached an interim agreement to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with the deal to be signed in Switzerland on Friday.
Bitcoin could crash to $48,000, if this historical pattern is triggered
The pattern works like this. Draw Fibonacci retracements from near zero – BTC began trading at $0.003 in February 2010 – to bull market peaks reached in June 2011, November 2013, December 2017, and November 2021.
Summer of crypto (regs): State of Crypto
Technically speaking, summer hasn't started yet and won't for another week. But it's over 90°F in New York, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to work through crypto tax legislation, the Commodity Futures…
Aerodrome is turning liquidity into a prediction market with its biggest upgrade yet
Aerodrome, the largest decentralized exchange (DEX) on Coinbase's Base network, is preparing for what its developers believe could be the next evolution of onchain markets.
SEC's big swing to clear tokenization path isn't likely to get resilience of full rule
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing one of the most consequential of Chairman Paul Atkins' crypto policies, a new approach that grants some regulatory leeway to those seeking to tokenize securities,…
Wall Street and crypto are crashing into each other as tokenized treasury markets hit $14.6 billion
A significant transformation is currently underway across the established cryptocurrency market. The top crypto exchanges are morphing into multi-asset financial platforms, breaking down the traditional barriers that on…
Tokenization mirrors the $20 trillion ETF boom as blockchain and AI converge, Ondo exec says
The market for tokenized assets is growing quickly, but John Hoffman thinks the biggest wave of demand hasn't arrived yet: artificial intelligence.
Perpetual futures could become crypto's next ETF moment
The rollout of regulated perpetual futures in the U.S. could follow a familiar path to the one taken by spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in seeking mass adoption.
Saylor to Musk: Thanks to you, 25% of 'Mag8' firms now hold bitcoin
Michael Saylor, co-founder of Strategy, the world's largest publicly listed bitcoin holder, has a new term for Wall Street's most elite stocks and a congratulatory message for Elon Musk.
Stablecoins Were Meant to Disrupt Finance. Instead, They Became Idle Cash.
Stablecoins are probably crypto’s clearest success story, and rightly so. They became the industry’s monetary primitive; the dollar layer for trading, collateral, payments and settlement.
Top cryptographers can't agree on Bitcoin's biggest quantum question
A Coinbase-convened advisory board of some of the most prominent cryptographers in the world has laid out what Bitcoin should do about the millions of coins a future quantum computer could steal, and on the hardest ques…
SpaceX IPO scramble reveals difference between tokenizing a stock and getting one
The race to get into the SpaceX IPO left many crypto investors on the sidelines.
Anthropic's pre-IPO shares fall as U.S. government shuts down its most powerful AI model
The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to shut down its two most capable AI models on Friday, and the pre-IPO market for Anthropic shares sold off immediately.
Bitcoin steadies above $63,000 as its worst week in months got a late macro rescue
The largest crypto opened near $73,000 last Sunday, slid below $60,000 for the first time since the U.S. election in November 2024, and recovered to about $63,500 by Saturday, according to CoinDesk data. It remains roug…
Elon Musk's SpaceX soars 20% in blockbuster Nasdaq debut
SpaceX shares opened at $150 on Friday before rising to $162, marking a strong start to one of the most closely watched stock market debuts in recent years.
Bitcoin hit bottom at $59,000 marking end to the crypto winter, says Standard Chartered analyst
The cryptocurrency market reached its definitive bottom for the currency cycle, Standard Chartered Analyst Geoffrey Kendrick said in a note on Friday.
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried loses appeal of criminal conviction on fraud, conspiracy charges
FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried lost his effort to overturn his conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges tied to the operation and collapse of his former crypto trading empire on Friday.
CoinDesk 20 performance update: Ethereum (ETH) falls 1% as index trades lower
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.