Month: October 2025

U.S. stocks opened higher on Friday as Wall Street set its eyes on a positive weekly close, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 180 points despite the government shutdown extending into day 10. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was…...

Prestige Wealth (PWM) said it has closed a $150 million financing round to launch a digital asset treasuryfocused on Tether Gold (XAUT), the gold-backed tokens of stablecoin giant Tether. The funding includes a $100 million private placement led by Antalpha (ANTA), a prominent bitcoin mining financing firm that and...

Quick Facts: 1️⃣ Ripple locks another 4M $XRP in escrow to stabilize supply as prices dip below $3. 2️⃣ $RLUSD stablecoin nears the $1B mark following Ripple’s Bahrain expansion. 3️⃣ The focus on crypto is shifting from price speculation to real-world utility and infrastructure. 4️⃣ Wallet tokens like $BEST...

Blockchain security firm PeckShield reported Friday that a wallet suffered a devastating loss of roughly $21 million worth of crypto assets on Hyperliquid, a decentralized trading platform. According to PeckShield, the theft stemmed from a private key compromise, allowing an attacker to drain the victim’s funds in a single...

A tightening U.S. power grid is driving bitcoin (BTC) miners and AI developers into closer alignment, according to Wall Street broker Bernstein. Soaring demand from AI and digital workloads has made grid access one of the biggest constraints on new data center growth, with interconnection timelines stretching to seven...

Online prediction market Kalshi has raised more than $300 million at a $5 billion valuation as prediction markets move into the financial mainstream, according to a report by the New York Times on Friday. The company will now allow users in over 140 countries to place bets, marking its...

This is an analysis post by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole. Bitcoin (BTC) bounced back to around $121,500 after dipping below $120,000 late Thursday. Further gains may be difficult to achieve or could prove short-lived for two reasons. First, momentum indicators on short-term charts have turned...

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 4183.36, up 1.1% (+45.17) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. All 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: LTC (+11.9%) and NEAR (+10.9%). Laggards:...

The move marks the debut of Nasdaq’s first Tether Gold-backed corporate treasury, which will be established via a $150 million financing round....

David Carvalho, Founder and CEO of Naoris Protocol, explains that state actors are already ready to use quantum computing for attacks. The quantum computing threat is no longer theoretical. State actors across the globe are already positioning themselves to use…...