Thursday, 12 November 2026
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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…
Grant Cardone, CEO of Cardone Capital, used this week's crypto slide to restate the case for his bitcoin-and-property model, saying the structure is designed to keep buying as prices fall.
Strategy's (MSTR) perpetual preferred stock, STRC, is down 3% during Friday's pre-market and is trading below $73 around 27% below its $100 par value, as investors focus on June 30, a date that brings two important even…
The Tokyo-based bank first floated the idea at the start of last month, framing it as part of a broader strategy to expand its crypto business ahead of potential regulatory developments in Japan. It bought crypto exchan…
Sharplink (SBET) received 5,000 ether (ETH) worth about $7.85 million on Thursday, its first ether inflow in eight months, according to Arkham data showing the coins arriving from crypto brokerage FalconX.
Strategy (MSTR) is sitting on one of the largest unrealized losses in corporate history and it’s bigger than some of crypto’s most prominent projects.
Asset manager, Invesco is preparing to launch a tokenized fund to serve the fast-growing stablecoin market, the latest sign that traditional asset managers are racing to manage the reserves backing digital dollars.