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‘Crypto spring’ is here, says one analyst after bitcoin's key signals turn bullish
Standard Chartered's head of digital assets research Geoffrey Kendrick says bitcoin
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CoinDesk 20 performance update: Bittensor (TAO) surges 31.9%, leading index higher
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
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Hyperliquid loses Anthropic, OpenAI markets as creator shuts down project
A key player on the fast-growing derivatives exchange Hyperliquid's private-company trading is shutting down, pointing to consolidation in one of the industry's hottest new markets.
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Kraken debuts U.S. perpetual futures as crypto derivatives move onshore
Kraken began offering regulated perpetual futures to U.S. customers, marking a significant step in bringing one of crypto's most popular trading products into the country after years of activity concentrated on offshore…
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Michael Saylor's Strategy acquires another 1,587 bitcoin for $100 million
Strategy (MSTR) last week acquired 1,587 bitcoin for approximately $100 million, increasing its total holdings to 846,842 BTC, according to a Monday morning filing.
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Bitmine adds another $136 million of ether after raising $274 million in preferred stock sale
BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the largest Ethereum-focused treasury company, continued its purchase streak after raising fresh capital through a preferred stock sale.
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Coinbase's Brian Armstrong says bitcoin may have bottomed at $60,000
"My instinct is we probably have bottomed at this point, maybe at the sixty K number, but nobody can say for sure," Armstrong said in a video posted on X on Monday. He added that he remains long bitcoin and expects pric…
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XRP rockets 8% above $1.20 in first major breakout since June selloff
XRP spent the past two weeks trying to stop going down. Now it's trying to go higher.
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Markets cheer U.S.-Iran Breakthrough though Middle East risks, Fed remain in focus
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If America wants to lead in crypto, it must protect the people who build it
The crypto industry’s leading founders, CEOs and investors recently signed a single letter to Senate leaders with one request: do not weaken the Clarity Act's protections for software developers. These are competitors, …
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U.S.-Iran deal lifts equities, sends oil lower, while crypto stays wary
The U.S.-Iran peace deal reached over the weekend provided the stimulus many markets had been waiting for.
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Ark Invest bought more than $500 million worth of SpaceX shares on IPO day
ARK Invest bought nearly 3.3 million shares of SpaceX (SPCX) as Elon Musk's company went public in the largest IPO ever on Friday, building a stake worth more than $500 million by the end of the day.
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Middle East ceasfire, Fed interest-rate decision: Crypto Week Ahead
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.
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Trump-linked stablecoin used for bonus payouts at White House UFC contest
USD1, the stablecoin issued by the Trump family's crypto venture World Liberty Financial, has gone from locking retail depositors out of a DeFi lending pool to being used to pay fighters on the White House lawn.
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Live markets: Bitcoin not fully out of danger as Trump warns of further Iran strikes
Copper climbed as much as 1.4% after the US and Iran announced an interim deal to halt the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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Bitcoin hits a two-week high above $65,500 as the US-Iran deal sends oil sliding
Bitcoin climbed to its highest level in nearly two weeks after the US and Iran reached a deal to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, removing the energy-supply fear that had weighed on markets for months.
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XRP climbs 4% above $1.18 as traders test next resistance zone
XRP's rebound is starting to look less like a dead-cat bounce and more like a market trying to build a base.
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Bitcoin shoots higher on Iran peace deal, with Strait of Hormuz set to open
The US and Iran said they reached an interim agreement to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with the deal to be signed in Switzerland on Friday.
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Bitcoin could crash to $48,000, if this historical pattern is triggered
The pattern works like this. Draw Fibonacci retracements from near zero – BTC began trading at $0.003 in February 2010 – to bull market peaks reached in June 2011, November 2013, December 2017, and November 2021.
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Wall Street and crypto are crashing into each other as tokenized treasury markets hit $14.6 billion
A significant transformation is currently underway across the established cryptocurrency market. The top crypto exchanges are morphing into multi-asset financial platforms, breaking down the traditional barriers that on…
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Aerodrome is turning liquidity into a prediction market with its biggest upgrade yet
Aerodrome, the largest decentralized exchange (DEX) on Coinbase's Base network, is preparing for what its developers believe could be the next evolution of onchain markets.
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SEC's big swing to clear tokenization path isn't likely to get resilience of full rule
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing one of the most consequential of Chairman Paul Atkins' crypto policies, a new approach that grants some regulatory leeway to those seeking to tokenize securities,…
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Here's what SpaceX's IPO means for its $1.3 billion bitcoin reserve
SpaceX's Nasdaq debut on Friday did something quieter than the record $75 billion raise. It puts the largest bitcoin position ever attached to an IPO onto public markets, and under a framing that corporate America has n…
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Bitcoin rises above $64,000 after Pakistan prime minister says Iran peace deal is near
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…