Sunday, 20 September 2026
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The crypto industry has long pitched stablecoins, tokens pegged to fiat currencies, as the future of blockchain-based money and payments. But the Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) latest annual report is throwin…
BitMEX, the troubled cryptocurrency exchange reportedly looking for a buyer, has cleared out its executive team, removing chief executive Stephan Lutz, chief financial officer Ina Steiner, and chief growth officer Rapha…
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs have recorded $4.06 billion in net outflows this month, according to data from SoSoValue. It marks the largest monthly redemption on record, exceeding the previous high of $3.56 billion in Februar…
The bitcoin bottom is in, said Samson Mow in an X post on Sunday, arguing that the traditional four-year halving cycle has accelerated.
Michael Saylor shared a StrategyTracker chart on X this Sunday showing Strategy holds 847,363 bitcoin valued at $50.88 billion as of June 28, 2026, with 113 purchase events and an average cost basis of $75,653 per BTC.
SBI Holdings' (8473) $289 million acquisition of Japanese crypto exchange Bitbank is its biggest consolidation move yet, positioning the financial group to dominate the country's regulated digital-asset market as new ru…
Bitcoin dipped below $60,000 over the weekend, trading around $59,940 on Sunday, down 0.6% over 24 hours and nearly 7% on the week, per CoinDesk data, as a quarter of selling neared its final days.
Read the recent headlines about trading platform Robinhood’s c-suite departure and layoffs, or BitGo’s 15% workforce reduction, and you’ll see that things are looking grim in the world of crypto investing. One outlet re…
Blockchain intelligence firm AMLBot updated on X Saturday the amount hackers stole from 11 user wallet accounts on Polymarket to roughly $3.1 million in the prediction markets token PUSD.
Coinbase and OKX are offering sign-up bonuses to users after reports broke out that rival exchange Binance told its users in the European Union (EU) it is suspending some services because it will not have a Markets in C…
Tether has expanded the use of its $23 billion gold reserves by bringing its tokenized product Tether Gold (XAUT) to crypto lender Ledn.
There is no easy answer to the question of why crypto markets have fallen so much in the first half of 2026, Binance founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhou said.
Strategy's (MSTR) enterprise multiple to net asset value (mNAV) has officially fallen below 1.
Dogecoin and Hyperliquid's HYPE led the week's losses across crypto, falling near 10%, as money kept flowing toward stocks tied to the artificial-intelligence boom and away from major tokens.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said he remains bullish on bitcoin but that Michael Saylor's approach to funding bitcoin purchases has damaged the broader crypto market, in a CNBC interview on Friday, as the preferred stoc…
Latest developments: Trent Van Epps says Ethereum's long-term decentralization strategy is entering a critical transition phase.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov pushed back in an X post against the suggestion that Aave assets could be sold at a steep discount. He reiterated that all protocol revenue — currently running at an annualized $134 million, …
Latest developments: The Alliance to End Human Trafficking is urging lawmakers to revisit Section 604 of the Clarity Act, arguing the provision could make it harder to hold some crypto platform developers accountable wh…
Securitize, one of the largest providers of tokenization infrastructure for Wall Street, expects to raise about $400 million as it prepares to go public through a merger with a Cantor Fitzgerald-backed special purpose a…
Latest developments: Teng says Virtuals has expanded beyond gaming-focused AI agents and is now building infrastructure for what it calls an “agent society.”
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The largest cryptocurrency was recently trading near $59,700, having fallen as low as $58,100.
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by trading volume, told customers in the European Union (EU) it is suspending some services because it will not have a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license in place by Jul…