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The digital credit market suffered one of its sharpest selloffs to date on Thursday, with Strive Asset Management CEO Matt Cole describing the move as a leverage-driven liquidation rather than a sign of weakening credit…
XRP gave back more of last week's rally on Wednesday after sellers pushed the token through $1.15 support, a level traders had been watching since the recent move above $1.20.
In the past 24 to 48 hours, crypto exchange Deribit saw heavy buying of short- and near-dated put options, spanning expirations from June 22 to July 31, according to data tracked by Laevitas. Notable flows included:
Bitcoin fell below $63,000 on Friday as risk assets sold off worldwide, erasing the gains it made earlier in the week on the back of the US-Iran peace deal.
The punishments of Alexander Mashinsky, the imprisoned former chief of Celsius until its high-profile collapse, continue with a formal banishment from any ability to seek business with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading…
The Ethereum Foundation's (EF) co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang shared that she has stepped down from her role leading the organization effective immediately, in a post shared on X on Thursday.
Blockchain infrastructure firm Alchemy said AI agents with its AgentCard now have access to the Visa (V) network with complete identity and payment capabilities, enabling them to make online purchases on behalf of consu…
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Malta's financial regulator is exploring how decentralized finance (DeFi) could fit within the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, focusing on governance, accountability and the meaning of "full …
The crypto market slipped a day after the Federal Reserve raised expectations that U.S. interest rates are headed higher.
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The best-performing stocks of the past decade are coming under pressure as investors question the enormous cost of the AI arms race and rotate into new fields with stronger momentum.
That level is the 200-week simple moving average (SMA), which represents the token's average price over that period, providing traders with a clear glimpse of the long-term trend while cutting through day-to-day noise.
US spot bitcoin and ether ETFs both turned to outflows on Wednesday in a sign the recovery rally has lost its institutional bid.
Something has drastically shifted in the bond market, and it's offering negative cues to risk assets, including bitcoin
CME Chief Executive Terrence Duffy said the derivatives provider planned to sue the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) after it approved perpetual futures products earlier this month.
Any recovery in the crypto market is likely to take longer than traders expect because Wall Street investors and advisory firms are now focusing on real-world applications, such as tokenization, and artificial intellige…
When Botanix announced last week that it would be winding down operations, the Bitcoin layer-2 project did not try to sugarcoat its message.
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Fidelity Investments is the latest Wall Street firm seeking a role in one of the fastest-growing corners of digital assets: managing the reserves that back stablecoins.
The crypto industry is pushing back against a new tax law in the state of Illinois that enacts a 0.2% tax on businesses transacting or storing crypto for customers in the state, but it may be too late to change it in th…
Moody's Ratings is rolling out its credit ratings to Solana (SOL), allowing issuers of tokenized bonds and other fixed-income securities to embed the firm's assessments directly into blockchain-based assets.
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The Federal Reserve left its benchmark fed funds rate range unchanged at 3.50%-3.75% on Wednesday, a move markets had expected nearly unanimously.