Crypto
U.S. Listed Spot Bitcoin ETFs on the Verge of Surpassing Gold ETFs
The year 2024 has marked a significant breakthrough for digital assets, particularly for bitcoin (BTC), driven by increased institutional adoption. ...
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Bitcoin’s Nosedive to Under $100K Shaves $700M Crypto Longs, XRP Drops 5%
A bitcoin (BTC) slump spiraled into over $700 million worth of liquidations across futures tracking major tokens, with XRP and ...
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The Protocol: Solana’s Allure for Devs; Avalanche’s Big Upgrade
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Marc Hochstein, CoinDesk’s ...
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‘DeFi on Bitcoin’ Gets a Boost as BOB L2 Integrates $6B BTC Staking Protocol Babylon
BOB, the “hybrid layer-2” network seeking to make Bitcoin the center of the decentralized finance (DeFi) universe, has taken a ...
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Bitcoin Slips to $101K, Altcoins Spiraling on Federal Reserve’s Hawkish Tone
The U.S. Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark fed funds rate by 25 basis points to the 4.25%-4.50% range, its third ...
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Kraken’s Ink Layer-2 Goes Live
Kraken, the seventh-largest crypto exchange, said its layer-2 rollup network, built on top of the Ethereum blockchain, has gone live. ...
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Trump Administration Has Already Unlocked ‘New Era’ for U.S. Crypto: JPMorgan
Donald Trump’s victory in the November presidential election is already ushering in a new era for crypto in the U.S., ...
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Bitcoin’s Memecoin-Like ‘Runes’ Get a Boost With AMM Launch on Stacks
Crypto degens have a new – and, if all goes according to plan, faster, cheaper and safer – way to ...
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WBTC Episode ‘Reopened Old Wounds’ of Centralized Failures: Bitcoin Builders Association
Earlier this year, some users of wrapped bitcoin wBTC were dismayed to find its issuer BitGo was sharing custody of ...
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Solana Smashes Record With 66.9M Daily Transactions as Pengu Token Debuts
Solana’s network activity lit up on Tuesday as the Pudgy Penguins NFT project debuted its native token, PENGU, on the ...
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