Thursday, 12 November 2026
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Bitcoin climbed above $64,000 on Saturday, reaching an intraday high of more than $64,200. The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is up more than 1% over the past 24 hours and is now up over 8% from its Jun…
Ethereum's institutional adoption story may finally be moving beyond theory and into practice, according to Vivek Raman, founder of Etherealize, a company with the stated goal of bringing Ethereum to Wall Street.
The newest AI model from Anthropic, which gives users access to stronger, faster reasoning and coding capabilities, lands in a crypto market beset by security problems and could well exacerbate them.
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.
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 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.
Ripple is trying to put XRP and RLUSD into the market for AI-agent payments in an environment that is still mostly paying in the dollar-pegged USDC stablecoin.
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…
The race to get into the SpaceX IPO left many crypto investors on the sidelines.
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.
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…
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.
Latest developments: Crypto markets are under pressure as Bitcoin sits around $60,000 and ETF outflows continue.
The cryptocurrency market reached its definitive bottom for the currency cycle, Standard Chartered Analyst Geoffrey Kendrick said in a note on Friday.
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 Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
Latest developments: VanEck recently launched the first U.S. spot BNB ETF, trading under the ticker VBNB on Nasdaq.
Last month, the United States Commerce Department signed letters of intent to award just over $2 billion to nine quantum computing companies building the machines that break the cryptography defending Bitcoin and Ethere…
Someone routed $120 million in stablecoins through a chain of swaps this week, and a sudden jump in the Monero price made it visible.
Latest developments: Kalshi’s launch of CFTC-regulated crypto perpetuals has reignited a long-running debate over financial market definitions.
Social chatter support for XRP has dropped to levels not seen since October, a point that has previously been a cue for traders looking to make short-term bullish bets on the Ripple-linked token.
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The Nasdaq-100 rebalance takes effect on June 22, with CoreWeave (CRWV) and Nebius Group (NBIS) among the five companies being added in the index's quarterly reshuffle.
There is a simple signal to get that confirmation. Right now, it is saying the rebound has not started.