CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Index Drops 3.3% as All Assets Trade Lower
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 2571.75, down 3.3% (-88.79) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. None of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: APT (-0.2%) and BCH...
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Tuesdays Have Been Bitcoin’s Most Volatile Day in 2025
In case you haven’t looked, it’s Tuesday. For bitcoin traders, that could mean some big price swings. According to Amberdata, Tuesdays have been the most volatile day of the week thus far in 2025, particularly over the past month, where realized volatility has averaged 82. Realized volatility measures the...
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Boerse Stuttgart’s BX Digital Receives FINMA Approval for Digital Asset Trading
BX Digital received regulatory approval from the Swiss markets regulator to operate a digital asset trading and settlement platform, becoming the first of its kind in the country, it said. The license from the Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) allows the Zurich-based company to function as a distributed ledger...
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Xapo Bank Offers Bitcoin-Backed Loans Giving Access to $1M in Cash Without Selling BTC
Xapo Bank, a wealth manager for long-term holders of bitcoin, said it is offering its members BTC-backed loans of up to $1 million. Crypto lending became something of a bête noire in recent years following a series of high profile collapses and bankruptcies that shook the crypto industry. But...
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Solana’s Biggest Protocol Jito Leans In on a Changed DC
Solana infrastructure project Jito on Tuesday claimed its protocol’s flagship token, JitoSOL, is not a security. That a crypto project would believe such a thing of its $2.4 billion asset is hardly surprising. More interesting: the very public method with which Jito delivered its opinion. Jito Foundation’s new “Securities...
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Halliday Raises $20M for AI Protocol to Eliminate Writing Smart Contracts for DeFi
Artificial intelligence (AI)-focused blockchain protocol Halliday said it raised $20 million to help fund development of its Agentic Workflow Protocol (AWP), which aims to speed development of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and avoid the need for programmers to write smart contracts. The Series A funding round was led by...
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Coinbase Stock a Buy With Over 60% Upside Amid Trump’s New Crypto Regime: Bernstein
The crypto industry is expected to join the financial mainstream in the U.S. as the regulatory environment improves, and Coinbase (COIN) is well positioned to benefit from these tailwinds, broker Bernstein said in a report Monday. Bernstein initiated coverage of the crypto exchange with an outperform rating and a...
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DOGE, XRP Down 3% as Bitcoin Traders Eye Wednesday Fed Decision
The crypto market was little changed-to-lower on Tuesday, with dogecoin (DOGE) and XRP leading declines among major tokens with losses of just over 3% in the past 24 hours. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20), a measure of the broader crypto market, fell 2%. The lack of volatility comes as...
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Stablecoin Protocol Level Aims to Expand $80M DeFi Yield Token With Fresh Capital Raise
Stablecoin protocol Level raised a fresh round of venture capital to expand its $80 million yield-paying stablecoin as yield-generating digital asset offerings are increasingly in demand with a cooldown in crypto prices. Peregrine Exploration, the development firm behind Level, received another $2.6 million led by early backer Dragonfly Capital...
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Weekly Crypto News – UAE Adoption, Base Funding & More!
Weekly Crypto News – UAE Adoption, Base Funding & More! Join Michael & I for our weekly discussion of all the latest crypto news, protocols, hidden gems & themes we like as we enter the most bullish phase of the crypto market cycle. #CryptoNews #Tech #Trends To join our...
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