How STRC lost its par: The timeline behind Strategy's preferred-stock meltdown
STRC, the dividend-paying preferred equity issued by bitcoin treasury company Strategy (MSTR), is designed to …
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Schwab to join prediction markets race with S&P 500 event-based options: WSJ
Charles Schwab is working with Cboe Global Markets to launch a new type of options contract that would allow c…
GoMining challenges Jack Dorsey's Square with payments system designed around bitcoin
Where GoMining says it differs from incumbents is that the entire transaction is completed in bitcoin. Many co…
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Franklin Templeton proposes new ETFs that turn corporate dividends into bitcoin
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Smart-contract and DeFi coins lead losses as bitcoin wilts for 4th straight day
The largest cryptocurrencies remained under pressure for a fourth straight day, with bitcoin falling 2.5% in 2…
Digital credit market hit by huge selloff as Strive CEO blames leverage liquidations
The digital credit market suffered one of its sharpest selloffs to date on Thursday, with Strive Asset Managem…
Microsoft found malware that hijacks crypto wallets and spreads through USB sticks
Malware that spreads via USB sticks has been infecting Windows personal computers and targeting crypto wallets…
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Bitcoin traders load up on bearish bets all the way down to $52,000
In the past 24 to 48 hours, crypto exchange Deribit saw heavy buying of short- and near-dated put options, spa…
Bitcoin falls below $63,000 as risk assets sell off and the week's bounce fades
Bitcoin fell below $63,000 on Friday as risk assets sold off worldwide, erasing the gains it made earlier in t…
U.S. agencies seek stablecoin customer-ID rules akin to banks in new GENIUS Act rule
The U.S. Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and other financial regulators are pushing a new stablecoin rule…
Ethereum Foundation loses another key leader as co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang resigns
The Ethereum Foundation's (EF) co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang shared that she has stepped down from her …
Crypto for Advisors: Trading the bitcoin cycle
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Algorand unveils roadmap to achieve quantum resistance by 2028
The Algorand Foundation unveiled a roadmap to make its blockchain quantum-resistant by the end of next year, b…
CoinDesk 20 performance update: Stellar (XLM) jumps 10% while index declines
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the…
Alchemy's AI-driven identity and payment service gains access to Visa network
Blockchain infrastructure firm Alchemy said AI agents with its AgentCard now have access to the Visa (V) netwo…
Hive shares jumps 10% on $220m Canada sovereign AI infrastructure deal
HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) shares jumped 10% in pre-market trading on Thursday after the company announc…
The great rotation: Investors desert the Magnificent 7, crypto for AI bottlenecks
The best-performing stocks of the past decade are coming under pressure as investors question the enormous cos…
Bitcoin's nemesis, the Dollar Index, is on the verge of a major breakout
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Aster popped over 10% on radical 'buyback and burn' upgrade. But gains were short-lived
Decentralized perpetuals-dedicated exchange Aster's native token ASTER popped and dropped sharply in 24 hours …
Crypto market positioning is 'defensive and thin' after Fed, Marex analysts say
The crypto market slipped a day after the Federal Reserve raised expectations that U.S. interest rates are hea…
The bond market is flashing a clear signal on interest rates. Bitcoin bulls should take note
Something has drastically shifted in the bond market, and it's offering negative cues to risk assets, includin…
Live markets: Bitcoin and ether ETFs lost $111 million combined as rate-cut hopes died
US spot bitcoin and ether ETFs both turned to outflows on Wednesday in a sign the recovery rally has lost its …
Strategy's STRC preferred stock hits a record low below par
A preferred stock that Strategy (MSTR) uses to help fund its bitcoin buying has fallen to a record low, constr…
Buying bitcoin below its 200-week average has historically delivered over 100% in median returns, Kraken says
That level is the 200-week simple moving average (SMA), which represents the token's average price over that p…