Securitize, a tokenization specialist backed by BlackRock, said Monday it cleared a final major hurdle to becoming a public company after shareholders of Cantor Equity Partners II (CEPT) approved the firms' proposed mer…
What was once dominated by lightly regulated crypto lenders is increasingly adopting the conventions of traditional finance, including conservative collateral management, greater transparency and more disciplined underw…
JPMorgan said it is backing efforts to establish a U.S. regulatory framework for digital assets, but placed as much emphasis on the risks of crypto as the opportunities.
Crypto projects losing millions due to exploits and hacks are becoming almost daily headlines. So much so that some of this news had almost become background noise.
The White House has invited law enforcement organizations objecting to the language of the U.S. Senate's crypto market structure bill to sit down for a meeting on Monday, according to a person briefed on the plan, which…
J.P. Morgan has expanded the number of currencies supported by its Kinexys blockchain payments platform, a move that could make it easier for multinational companies to move money between countries at any hour of the da…
Tracking funds on a blockchain has typically required specialized tools, and the process can sometimes be opaque, but crypto analytics firm Chainalysis is taking a swing at solving that problem.
The European Union's (EU) July 1 Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) deadline could leave more than 10 million users looking for a new platform, Alex Fazel, chief partnership officer at Swissborg, told CoinDesk in an interv…
Ripple is pushing to add a lending layer to the XRP Ledger, the blockchain behind XRP, in a bid to let institutions borrow against assets they hold onchain rather than just issue and move them.
BNY, the world's largest custody bank overseeing $59 trillion in assets, is deepening its ties with Circle (CRCL) as the Wall Street bank ramps up its stablecoin services.
The world's largest publicly traded company holding bitcoin, Strategy (MSTR), has authorized a new bitcoin monetization program, giving the company the flexibility to sell a portion of its bitcoin holdings to strengthen…
Ukraine has transferred seized cryptocurrency into state management for the first time in its history, according to the country's Prosecutor General's Office.
Ethena said its yield-generating "synthetic dollar" token will be integrated into BlackRock's (BLK) Aladdin investment management platform as the crypto protocol is deepening its relationship with traditional finance fi…
The rapid consolidation of the prediction market technology stack is raising the odds of a new wave of mergers and acquisitions across sports betting and financial markets, according to Wall Street broker Bernstein.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the largest Ethereum treasury company, bought 27,084 ether (ETH) last week, extending its accumulation streak despite another slide in crypto prices.
Institutional demand for perpetual futures remains limited, with the products largely viewed as speculative trading instruments rather than viable replacements for traditional derivatives, according to a Monday report b…
Strategy (MSTR) unveiled a new Digital Credit Capital Framework on Monday, introducing a series of capital management initiatives designed to strengthen its preferred securities, preserve long term bitcoin exposure, and…
The price of Tether's USDT, the largest dollar-pegged stablecoin, has climbed to more than 8.5% above its dollar value on Indian platforms after a government crackdown on crypto payment firms choked off the token's supp…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published the first part of a deep technical series on obfuscation, calling it the most powerful idea in cryptography while making clear it is nowhere near ready to use.
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Volatility indexes offered a rare positive signal as BVIV dropped to 47%, pausing its two-week climb and suggesting traders are betting on calmer conditions, though derivatives data across most top-25 tokens indicate be…
European cryptocurrency firms that have failed to obtain a Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) license face a deadline this week that could wipe out a large proportion of the market.
The latest Proof of Reserves reports from Bybit and OKX show user Bitcoin holdings increased by more than 10% on both exchanges. Bybit reported 49,309 BTC (+10.22%) as of June 24, while OKX reported 123,056 BTC (+10.67%…