Kraken bought Small Exchange for $32.5 million in cash and $67.5 million in stock, IG announced on Thursday
With the ACRA submission complete, the exchange enters the implementation phase, or a period during which users will receive distributions and Recovery Tokens (RTs) under the scheme.
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 16, 2025
Crypto’s Oct. 10 plunge looks more like a stress test than a regime change, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan wrote in his Oct. 14 memo . Hougan links the sell-off to a late-Friday post from President Trump threatening 100% tariffs on Chinese goods; with equities shut, he wrote, traders …
Stablecoins are poised to reshape the global financial system, with investment banking firm William Blair calling them a “major technology upgrade” over the traditional rails that have long underpinned cross-border money movement. The Chicago, Illinois-based banking firm argued that stablecoins will not only replace legacy infrastructure for business-to-business transactions, but …
The ongoing U.S. government shutdown has deprived traders of the latest economic data releases, injecting a sense of directional uncertainty into the markets. In such situations, it’s useful to look back at how markets have reacted to previous shutdowns. Interestingly, the previous U.S. government shutdown, which lasted from late December …
Artificial intelligence and high performance computing (AI/HPC) miners continue to surge pre-market. IREN (IREN) is up 6% pre-market above $73 per share, after closing a $1 billion private offering of 0.00% convertible senior notes due 2031. The deal was oversubscribed and included a fully exercised $125 million greenshoe. The notes …
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin’s (BTC) bounce from late Tuesday lows near $110,000 has stalled just above $113,000 as the lack of fresh U.S. economic data leaves both crypto and forex traders in limbo. The CoinDesk 20 (CD20) Index steadied above 3,800 points, representing a …
A wave of leveraged long liquidations has exposed bitcoin’s (BTC) equity sensitivity, according to Wall Street bank Citigroup. The bank said worsening U.S.-China trade tensions triggered a sharp futures selloff on Friday that spilled into crypto, underscoring its volatility and correlation with equities. Both crypto and stock markets have since clawed back some losses, the […]
By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) The crypto market staged a fragile recovery after a violent flash crash on Friday erased more than $500 billion in value and forced nearly $20 billion in liquidations across derivatives platforms. Bitcoin fell as much as 13% in an hour, bottoming near $102,000 before rebounding to […]
WisdomTree has launched a physically backed exchange-traded product tied to stellar lumens (XLM) across several European venues, setting the management expense ratio at 0.50%, according to a press release the asset manager shared with CoinDesk on Tuesday. Called the WisdomTree Physical Stellar Lumens ETP, the product provides exposure to the spot price of lumens through […]
Metaplanet (3350) is now trading below a 1.0x multiple to net asset value (mNAV) for the first time since launching its bitcoin treasury strategy back in 2024. mNAV can be defined as a metric that measures the market capitalization of a company relative to the value of the crypto assets it holds on its balance […]