Month: May 2025

True Markets, a new decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platform focused on stablecoin-native execution, has launched its mobile app on Solana and closed an $11 million Series A, bringing total funding to $20 million, the company said in a press release Tuesday. The funding round was co-led by Accomplice and...

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 3147.53, down 0.7% (-22.88) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. Four of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: AAVE (+9.8%) and HBAR (+0.7%)....

Energy management firm KULR (KULR) has expanded its bitcoin treasury to more than 800 tokens, with the purchase an additional $9 million worth of BTC. The latest acquisition — made at an average price of $103,234 each — brings the total amount KULR has spent on the cryptocurrency to...

Government entities increased their holdings of Strategy (MSTR), a bitcoin BTC proxy, in the first quarter according to new data from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), investment bank Standard Chartered (STAN) said in a research report on Tuesday. In some cases “MSTR holdings by government entities reflect...

Kraken has launched a suite of regulated crypto derivatives in Europe, expanding access to both perpetual and fixed maturity contracts under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. The offering is available through Payward Europe Digital Solutions, a Cyprus-based investment firm…...

U.S. stocks slid in early trades on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, with the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq opening lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened nearly 50 points down, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.3%.  Stocks’…...

London, UK, May 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Coinbase recently confirmed a data breach and that customer data, such as government-issued identity documents, was stolen. CEO Brian Amstrong confirmed on an X (formally Twitter) post on May 15 that a hacker demanded $20 million from the company in exchange for not...

SG Forge’s stablecoin launch could accelerate the integration of regulated digital assets into mainstream finance, enhancing global liquidity. The post French banking giant to launch world’s first bank-issued dollar stablecoin on Ethereum appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Introduction The Bitcoin’s market history has been a case of boom-and-bust, one that has witnessed retail-driven manias in 2013, ICO manias in 2017, and institutional purchases in 2021. At the point in the 2024–2025 cycle when we are nearing its half-cycle mark, it is clear that this time is...

Circle cofounder Sean Neville’s new venture, Catena Labs, has raised $18 million to build an AI-native bank. On May 20, Circle cofounder Sean Neville announced that his startup Catena Labs has raised $18 million in a seed funding round led…...