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Bitcoin's Sharpe Ratio slides to lowest since 2022. Here's what it means.
The Sharpe Ratio is the gold standard for measuring risk-adjusted returns and was developed by Nobel Prize-win…
Ripple's preliminary crypto asset provider license in Luxembourg upgraded to fully compliant
Ripple said Monday that Luxembourg upgraded its preliminary Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization…
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FOMC minutes, SpaceX joins Nasdaq 100: Crypto Week Ahead
Crypto Week Ahead is a comprehensive list of what's coming up in the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain,…
Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum is preparing its 'biggest rebuild' since the Merge
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has a fresh set of takeaways on "Lean Ethereum," the multi-year plan to re…
Live markets: Bitcoin pops to $63,900, then reverses, as week begins
Bitcoin touched $63,882 overnight before retreating to around $62,900, per CoinDesk data. The 24-hour high of …
I am contemplating selling some of my bitcoin for gold, veteran trader Peter Brandt says
Brandt, CEO of Factor LLC and widely followed chart analyst, said on X that he is mulling liquidating some of …
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Ether leads crypto's hold above key levels as bitcoin steadies over $63,000
Ether (ETH) led crypto majors into Monday as bitcoin held above $63,000, steadying after a week that pulled it…
Clarity and Congress's summer break: State of Crypto
Welcome to another update on the Clarity Act. Will it pass? Jury (and by that I mean Congress) is still out. I…
Americans traded $571 million on Polymarket politic bets despite U.S. ban
Americans are not supposed to be on Polymarket, but they were its biggest national political crowd over the la…
Banks have stopped asking if stablecoins belong in finance, now they're considering how
When Standard Chartered (STAN) said it would offer institutional clients direct access to minting and redeemin…
Collateral, not yield, will decide which stablecoins win
Everyone in crypto is talking about stablecoin yield right now. Yield-bearing stablecoins grew roughly 300% la…
Kalshi and prediction market sector embroiled in mixed bag of legal fights across U.S.
Kalshi is putting a hefty bet on its legal wrangling as the prediction markets firm fights for its survival in…
Barstool's Portnoy plans to hold bitcoin down to zero after timing it wrong every time
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said this week that he will hold his bitcoin
Tokenization's next use case is personalized portfolios, NYLIM executive says
Tokenization advocates often point to faster settlement, around-the-clock trading and using the tokens in dece…
Bitcoin jumps above $63,000, reversing end-June losses
Bitcoin climbed above $63,000 in U.S. morning hours Saturday, up 1.4% over 24 hours and 3.6% on the week, per …
Bitcoin experts split over plan to freeze Satoshi's 1.1 million bitcoin as quantum threat grows
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao's suggestion that the estimated 1.1 million tokens belonging to Bitcoin creator…
How ethical hackers with just a $3,000 server found a flaw that could've put $70 billion in crypto at risk
A $3,000 server was enough for a blockchain security researcher to simulate an attack path they say could have…
Why bitcoin's disconnect from record-high stocks won't last
Despite record highs in equities, the world's largest cryptocurrency has struggled to regain momentum while U.…
Trump's crypto token buyers are down $3.8 billion, blockchain data shows
Investors holding the TRUMP memecoin are down $3.81 billion combined, while the U.S. President made more than …
EU moves to block retail investors from explosive boom of multibillion-dollar prediction markets
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said some prediction-market contracts may be covered by t…
Bitcoin’s next parabolic run may need $1 trillion in fresh capital
Bitcoin returns far less for every dollar of new money entering it than it did in its early years, a decline i…
Revolut to Delist USDT, Ends Support by August 31
Revolut, Europe’s largest fintech company, will end support for USDT, with the delisting process beginning thi…
This sanctioned Russian stablecoin claims it processes billions, but blockchain analysts disagree
There is a growing dispute brewing between a sanctioned ruble-backed stablecoin issuer and blockchain analytic…