Wednesday, 22 July 2026
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The world's largest publicly traded company holding bitcoin, Strategy (MSTR), has authorized a new bitcoin monetization program, giving the company the flexibility to sell a portion of its bitcoin holdings to strengthen…
Crypto projects losing millions due to exploits and hacks are becoming almost daily headlines. So much so that some of this news had almost become background noise.
Strategy (MSTR) unveiled a new Digital Credit Capital Framework on Monday, introducing a series of capital management initiatives designed to strengthen its preferred securities, preserve long term bitcoin exposure, and…
J.P. Morgan has expanded the number of currencies supported by its Kinexys blockchain payments platform, a move that could make it easier for multinational companies to move money between countries at any hour of the da…
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the largest Ethereum treasury company, bought 27,084 ether (ETH) last week, extending its accumulation streak despite another slide in crypto prices.
Ethena said its yield-generating "synthetic dollar" token will be integrated into BlackRock's (BLK) Aladdin investment management platform as the crypto protocol is deepening its relationship with traditional finance fi…
Institutional demand for perpetual futures remains limited, with the products largely viewed as speculative trading instruments rather than viable replacements for traditional derivatives, according to a Monday report b…
The rapid consolidation of the prediction market technology stack is raising the odds of a new wave of mergers and acquisitions across sports betting and financial markets, according to Wall Street broker Bernstein.
Volatility indexes offered a rare positive signal as BVIV dropped to 47%, pausing its two-week climb and suggesting traders are betting on calmer conditions, though derivatives data across most top-25 tokens indicate be…
The crypto industry has long pitched stablecoins, tokens pegged to fiat currencies, as the future of blockchain-based money and payments. But the Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) latest annual report is throwin…
The price of Tether's USDT, the largest dollar-pegged stablecoin, has climbed to more than 8.5% above its dollar value on Indian platforms after a government crackdown on crypto payment firms choked off the token's supp…
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.
South Korea's two largest chipmakers are committing about $518 billion to new factories to meet demand for artificial-intelligence chips in a further sign of just how much capital AI is drawing in from everywhere else, …
Crypto opened Monday flat. Bitcoin traded near $59,700, down 0.3% on the day and 6.8% on the week, as a de-escalation in the U.S.-Iran conflict lifted equity futures but left digital assets unmoved, per CoinDesk data.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs have recorded $4.06 billion in net outflows this month, according to data from SoSoValue. It marks the largest monthly redemption on record, exceeding the previous high of $3.56 billion in Februar…
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whom most people know as CZ, is making the rounds . He sat down with CoinDesk for a pair of interviews earlier this month, sharing his views on the crypto exchange he founded, crypto's tr…
The bitcoin bottom is in, said Samson Mow in an X post on Sunday, arguing that the traditional four-year halving cycle has accelerated.
Michael Saylor shared a StrategyTracker chart on X this Sunday showing Strategy holds 847,363 bitcoin valued at $50.88 billion as of June 28, 2026, with 113 purchase events and an average cost basis of $75,653 per BTC.
The biggest investment opportunities in blockchain may no longer be in crypto itself, but in how the technology can finance capital-intensive industries such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and energy.
Bitcoin dipped below $60,000 over the weekend, trading around $59,940 on Sunday, down 0.6% over 24 hours and nearly 7% on the week, per CoinDesk data, as a quarter of selling neared its final days.
The ongoing artificial intelligence stock frenzy has pulled in capital from across the market, from traditional metals, considered the safest assets, to crypto, considered the riskiest.
Coinbase and OKX are offering sign-up bonuses to users after reports broke out that rival exchange Binance told its users in the European Union (EU) it is suspending some services because it will not have a Markets in C…
Tether has expanded the use of its $23 billion gold reserves by bringing its tokenized product Tether Gold (XAUT) to crypto lender Ledn.