The bitcoin (BTC) bull run has already stalled with ongoing sales from long-term holder wallets and a slowdown in ETF inflows. To make matters worse, another lesser-known but significant market variable appears to be turning against BTC bulls, signaling new challenges on the horizon. That market variable is the MOVE index, created by Harley Bassman, […]
Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours and an overview of market moves and analysis. For a detailed overview of U.S. markets, see CoinDesk’s Crypto Daybook Americas. Bitcoin treasury companies are facing a simple but brutal test: can […]
Payments giant Stripe and crypto investment firm Paradigm on Thursday officially unveiled Tempo, their joint blockchain project designed for stablecoin payments. The initiative, incubated inside Stripe, is designed to handle the kind of scale Stripe sees in real-world financial applications, processing tens of thousands of transactions per second with sub-second finality, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison […]
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto protocol linked to Donald Trump and his family, on Thursday blacklisted Tron founder and key investor Justin Sun’s blockchain address, impeding him from transfering WLFI tokens. The move affects 595 million unlocked WLFI tokens held on the address, worth roughly $107 million at current prices, according to Arkham data. […]
Ethereum has become the latest front for software supply chain attacks. Researchers at ReversingLabs earlier this week uncovered two malicious NPM packages that used Ethereum smart contracts to conceal harmful code, allowing the malware to bypass traditional security checks. NPM is a package manager for the runtime environment Node.js and is considered the world’s largest […]
News Background DOGE advanced 4% during the 24h session from Sept. 3 at 03:00 to Sept. 4 at 02:00, climbing from $0.216 to $0.218. Trading volumes spiked to 416.41M tokens during resistance testing at $0.223, far above the 24h average of 244.87M. Prediction markets (Polymarket) show ETF approval odds rising from 51% to 71%, drawing […]
Ripple, the payments-focused digital asset firm, is expanding its U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin Ripple USD (RLUSD) to institutions in Africa through new partnerships with Chipper Cash, VALR and Yellow Card distributors. The rollout aims to give businesses across the continent access to a stable, digital dollar designed for cross-border payments, liquidity and on-chain settlement, the company […]
News Background XRP traded in a narrow 2% range from $2.81 to $2.87 during the 24h session from Sept. 2 at 14:00 to Sept. 3 at 13:00. Large wallets accumulated roughly 340M XRP (~$960M) over the past two weeks even as institutions liquidated ~$1.9B since July. Total transaction volume across the XRP Ledger reached 2.15B […]
Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours and an overview of market moves and analysis. For a detailed overview of U.S. markets, see CoinDesk’s Crypto Daybook Americas. Bitcoin is stuck in a holding pattern near $112,000, according to […]
Bitcoin’s (BTC) slide into September comes with an uncomfortable reminder for traders that history is not on their side. The largest token by market capitalization has declined in nine of the last 14 September months, with an average monthly loss of around 12%. This seasonality looms large again in 2025. Bitcoin opened the week near […]
Global cryptocurrency trading firm OKX was fined 2.25 million euros ($2.6 million) by the Dutch National Bank (DNB) for offering crypto services in the Netherlands without having registered with the financial regulator. The fine on the company, whose official name is Aux Cayes Fintech Co., relates to the period July 2023 to August 2024, before […]
Figure Technologies, the blockchain lender founded by SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney, is aiming for a valuation of up to $4.13 billion in its upcoming initial public offering, according to new filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company and its backers are seeking to raise as much as $526 million through the share […]