Bitcoin Tops $47K as Spot Bitcoin ETFs Book One of Their Best Days
Spot bitcoin ETFs attracted Thursday their third-largest net inflows since debut, increasing their holdings by 9,260 BTC.
Vibe Check: Momentum Building: CoinDesk Indices' Todd Groth
Periodic observations and market musings from Todd Groth, Head of Research, CoinDesk Indices.
First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Seen Topping $50K This Weekend
The latest price moves in bitcoin [BTC] and crypto markets in context for Feb. 9, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
Crypto Stocks Rally Pre-Market as Bitcoin Tops $46K
Bitcoin climbed over $46,000 for the first time in nearly a month early Friday, extending its gain for the week to nearly 10%.
What Is ERC-404? The Experimental Standard Whose First Token Has Rocketed 12,000% in One Week
ERC-404 allows multiple wallets to directly own a single NFT, and, in the future, create a use case where that specific exposure can be tokenized and used to take out loans or stake holdings.
UK’s Planned Stablecoin Rules Need Reworking, Crypto Advocates Say
Crypto industry groups in the U.K. say local regulators’ proposals for supervising stablecoins need reworking.
Bitcoin Miner Shares Offer Good Entry Point Ahead of Halving Event: Bernstein
The cryptocurrency has performed well before the halving and is likely to sustain momentum for the rest of the year, leading to new highs in 2024, the report said.
DeFi Platform Pendle Nears $1B in Total Value Locked
Pendle crossed the $100 million TVL mark in mid-June 2023.
Bitcoin Crosses $46K as Year of 'Long' Begins, Easing ETF Selloff
Over the next few days, East Asia will celebrate the start of the year of the dragon, which is considered to be one of the luckiest and most prosperous animals in the Chinese Zodiac.
CoinDesk’s New Owner Bullish Replaces CEO in Restructuring
Sara Startoberdha succeeds Kevin Worth, who has led CoinDesk since 2017.
Welcome to the ‘Bitcoin Era’ on Wall Street
With a roster of bitcoin ETFs already trading, companies will need to figure out how to differentiate their products.
Ether’s Prometheum Test
The “only U.S.-registered crypto securities platform" is listing ETH in a bold test of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's thesis that most cryptocurrencies are securities.
Solana Gains More Than Bitcoin as Trader Speculates an 'Extreme Move' Is Ahead
The broader altcoin market also showed signs of rebounding from oversold levels, one analyst noted.
JPMorgan Survey Shows Over Half of Institutional Traders Don't Want Crypto Exposure
The bank’s survey of over 4,000 traders found that 78% of the participants do not plan to trade cryptocurrencies, while just 12% plan to do so in the next five years.
U.S. Senators Berate SEC's Gensler for Agency's 'Unethical' Handling of Crypto Case
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's admission that it misrepresented evidence in a lawsuit against the blockchain project DEBT Box casts doubt on its wider enforcement practices, several Rep...
Bitcoin Mining and the Politicization of a Once Reputable Federal Agency
The Department of Energy's statistics wing is feigning an "emergency" to attack legitimate U.S. businesses and score political points, Texas Blockchain Council President Lee Bratcher and Chamber of Di...
Polygon Releases 'Type 1 Prover,' Claiming Milestone Set by Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin
The announcement means that existing EVM chains or optimistic rollups can connect to the prover without modification, then plug into Polygon’s newly released Aggregation layer, providing access to "al...
Layer-2 Blockchain Developer StarkWare Plans ‘Cairo’ to Verify Layer-3s
Cairo, which the StarkWare and the Herodotus developer team worked on together, is a key piece of technology that verifies proofs and posts them back to the layer-2 blockchain, instead of Ethereum’s m...
Bitcoin ETFs (Ex-GBTC) Now Hold More BTC Than MicroStrategy
The recently launched spot bitcoin ETFs, excluding Grayscale's GBTC, added nearly another 5,000 tokens to their holdings yesterday, and now at more than 192,000 BTC, hold more of the crypto than Micro...
Crypto for Advisors: Bitcoin as a Building Block for Portfolios
A practical, unbiased, and proven approach could classify bitcoin as another building block in institutional investors' portfolios.