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Baillie Gifford, a 118-year-old investment firm based in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, unveiled a fixed-income tokenized fund in association with global custody giant BNY, the companies said on Monday.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is leading an OKX and New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) joint venture to build infrastructure to bridge traditional and digital financial markets.
Bitcoin's mining network is becoming increasingly sensitive to price movements as more miners operate near breakeven levels, according to Wall Street bank JPMorgan.
The Bank of England officially reversed its controversial proposal to limit how much stablecoin individuals and consumers could hold, bowing to pressure from a U.K. House of Lords committee and the crypto industry.
Bitcoin is trading around $64,000, per CoinDesk pricing data, still searching for a catalyst strong enough to break the range it has held for weeks.
Taiko, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that processes transactions off the main chain and settles them back to it, halted block production and told users to pull their funds after an attacker exploited its bridge earlier Mo…
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.
Ethereum’s long-running funding debate has a new proposal: Make validators, who secure the world's leading smart contract blockchain, pay for more of the network’s shared costs.
For years, users looking to speed up their transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain relied on a handy optional feature that essentially says, "I might want to replace this transaction with a higher fee."
XRP briefly broke below a closely watched support level on Sunday before buyers stepped in.
Bitcoin started the week drifting near $64,000, sitting out a rally in Asian equities as the US and Iran moved closer to a lasting peace deal.
CME Group filed a lawsuit against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission alleging it should not have approved Kalshi's perpetual futures contracts the way it did and asking a court to vacate the approval and self-cert…
Jaredfromsubway.eth, one of Ethereum’s most infamous MEV bots, has been drained for more than $7.5 million after an attacker turned the bot’s own automated trading logic against it.
The release of Mythos, an AI system designed to autonomously discover vulnerabilities in code, may do more than help blockchain developers find bugs.
STRC, the dividend-paying preferred equity issued by bitcoin treasury company Strategy (MSTR), is designed to hold a price of $100, its par value. It doesn't always work that way.
Charles Schwab is working with Cboe Global Markets to launch a new type of options contract that would allow customers to make yes-or-no wagers on the performance of the S&P 500, marking the brokerage's first move into …
Where GoMining says it differs from incumbents is that the entire transaction is completed in bitcoin. Many competitors, including Square, allow customers to pay in bitcoin while delivering fiat currency to the retailer…
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The largest cryptocurrencies remained under pressure for a fourth straight day, with bitcoin falling 2.5% in 24 hours to just below $62,400.
The digital credit market suffered one of its sharpest selloffs to date on Thursday, with Strive Asset Management CEO Matt Cole describing the move as a leverage-driven liquidation rather than a sign of weakening credit…
Malware that spreads via USB sticks has been infecting Windows personal computers and targeting crypto wallets since February, Microsoft said in a blog post.
In the past 24 to 48 hours, crypto exchange Deribit saw heavy buying of short- and near-dated put options, spanning expirations from June 22 to July 31, according to data tracked by Laevitas. Notable flows included:
Bitcoin has spent five straight months trading below what it costs to produce, squeezing miners and forcing some to sell, JPMorgan said in a note. The bank pegs the cost to mine one bitcoin at about $78,000, well above …
XRP gave back more of last week's rally on Wednesday after sellers pushed the token through $1.15 support, a level traders had been watching since the recent move above $1.20.