by Coin Desk | August 22, 2025 9:23 am | Crypto News
Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings is moving into the red-hot tokenized stock market through a joint venture with Singapore-based blockchain development firm Startale.The companies plan to build an on-chain platform designed for trading tokenized equities and...
by Coin Desk | August 22, 2025 3:04 am | Crypto News
A senior official at the U.S. Department of Justice knew the crypto audience in Wyoming had fresh software developer convictions on its mind when he told them on Thursday that his department doesn’t want to go after digital assets software developers who...
by Coin Desk | August 22, 2025 1:06 am | Crypto News
State Street, a Boston-based custody bank with $49 trillion in assets under its watch, is pushing deeper into digital assets by joining JPMorgan’s blockchain-based tokenized asset platform Digital Debt Service as the first third-party custodian.The first transaction...
by Coin Desk | August 22, 2025 12:07 am | Crypto News
Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT uncovered a high-profile social engineering attack on Thursday, with the victim losing 783 BTC worth around $91.4 million.The scam occurred on Aug. 19 and involved the attacker posing as a support agent for a hardware wallet before duping the...
by Coin Desk | August 22, 2025 12:06 am | Crypto News
Gemini, the crypto exchange backed by the billionaire Winklevoss twins, has secured a Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) license from the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), strengthening its bid to expand across the European Union under the bloc’s new regulatory...
by Coin Desk | August 22, 2025 12:06 am | Crypto News
HBAR traded in a narrow but active 4% range from Aug. 20–21, climbing to $0.24 in the evening before correcting to $0.23 early the next day. By session’s end, the token had regained $0.24, reinforcing the $0.23–$0.24 band as a zone of support and accumulation.The...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 11:04 pm | Crypto News
Anchorage Digital has moved out from under its U.S. banking regulator’s order that it institute a compliance program to protect against money-laundering abuses, with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announcing the removal of the...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 10:11 pm | Crypto News
Markets are quickly recalibrating previously lofty odds of an imminent rate cut as the jets touch down in Jackson Hole for the Kansas City Fed’s Economic Symposium.The current data does not make the case for a September ease, said Cleveland Fed President Beth...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 10:11 pm | Crypto News
XRP rallied toward the $3 mark in the past session, with trading volume spiking more than 6% above its weekly baseline.News Background• XRP’s rally comes amid broader crypto stabilization, with altcoins tracking modest inflows after last week’s drawdown.• On-chain...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 10:11 pm | Crypto News
Stablecoins, digital tokens tied to predominantly fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar, will balloon to a $1.2 trillion market by 2028 and even have an impact on U.S. debt markets, Coinbase analysts projected in a Thursday report.The forecast, published by the...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 10:11 pm | Crypto News
XLM traded in a narrow band between $0.39 and $0.41 over a 24-hour stretch ending Aug. 21, reflecting a consolidation phase ahead of a potential move. Sellers repeatedly capped upside at $0.41, while buyers defended support at $0.40, keeping volatility subdued. A...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 9:11 pm | Crypto News
The corporate use of cryptocurrencies is evolving beyond payments, with a number of businesses adopting bitcoin (BTC) and other digital assets as core treasury reserves. A report Thursday from rating company Morningstar DBRS cautions that this strategy could heighten...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 9:11 pm | Crypto News
In today’s Crypto for Advisors newsletter, Patrick Murphy from Eightcap, provides insights on the maturation of crypto as an asset and compares the evolution of Indices to the S&P’s early days.Then, Leo Mindyuk from MLTech answers questions about indices in...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 9:11 pm | Crypto News
A majority of investors who hold both cryptocurrencies and stocks say digital assets will outperform equities in the long term, according to a new survey from crypto exchange Kraken.The survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults, published Thursday, found that 65% of...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 9:10 pm | Crypto News
Bank of America’s (BAC) rates strategy team said the U.S. Treasury market is increasingly shaped by two emerging forces: stablecoin demand for T-bills and the tokenization of government debt-related assets. BofA views stablecoins as less of a game-changer for...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 9:10 pm | Crypto News
Data provider RedStone has released a new report on Hyperliquid, the decentralized perpetuals exchange that has quickly become the category leader. In just a year, Hyperliquid has grown to capture more than 80% of the decentralized perps market, with daily trading...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 8:11 pm | Crypto News
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 4005.12, down 1.4% (-55.83) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday.Seven of 20 assets are trading...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 8:11 pm | Crypto News
Optimism is teaming up with Flashbots to revamp how transactions get processed across its OP Stack ecosystem, aiming to make some of Ethereum’s most popular layer-2 networks faster and more customizable.The partnership centers on sequencing, the behind-the-scenes...
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 8:10 pm | Crypto News
Ether (ETH) has outperformed bitcoin (BTC) over the past month, buoyed by strong inflows into spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and growing corporate treasury allocations, Wall Street bank JPMorgan (JPM) said in a report on Wednesday.The move comes in the wake of U.S....
by Coin Desk | August 21, 2025 8:10 pm | Crypto News
MetaMask, the popular crypto wallet developed by Consensys, confirmed on Thursday it will debut its proprietary U.S. dollar token (mUSD) later this year, joining the booming stablecoin market.”MetaMask USD is a critical step in bringing the world...
