Tomasz Stańczak, co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation (EF), announced today he will step down from his leadership role at the end of February 2026, marking a notable shift in the organization’s executive team. Stańczak, who has co-led the foundation alongside Hsiao-Wei Wang since early 2025, said in a blog post that he believes the…
Shares of Coinbase (COIN) jumped 12% Friday despite the crypto exchange missing fourth-quarter earnings expectations, as analysts reacted to the report with a mix of caution on short-term pressures and optimism about the company’s evolving business model. The company posted net revenue of $1.71 billion, below Wall Street estimates of $1.81 billion, while its core…
The DeFi Education Fund (DEF) has urged the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority to adopt a narrow, functional definition of “control” as it finalizes new rules for crypto asset activities. The Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group argued that regulatory obligations should hinge on whether an entity has unilateral authority over user funds or transactions, not merely whether…
Ark Invest added another $18 million worth of crypto-adjacent stocks to its holdings on Thursday, including a $2 million purchase of shares in cryptocurrency exchange Bullish (BLSH). The St. Petersburg, Florida-based company also bought $12 million worth of crypto-friendly trading platform Robinhood (HOOD) and $4 million worth of ether ETH$1,965.77 treasury firm Bitmine Immersion Technologies…
Crypto Daybook Americas will not be published on Monday, Feb. 16 due to the Presidents’ Day holiday in the U.S. We will be back on Feb. 17. By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin BTC$66,560.23 is on track for a fourth straight weekly decline in its longest negative streak since mid-November. The…
Bitcoin BTC$67,002.70 rose to test $67,000 early Friday and was quickly rebuffed, though it remains about 1% higher since midnight UTC with ether ETH$1,957.56 rising half as much. The derivatives market, too, is showing signs of positivity. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) is little changed, up just 0.7% in the period. While the gains mark…
Bitcoin’s BTC$66,914.52 long-term rally is “broken” and will remain so until the price climbs above $85,000, said Jean-David Péquignot, chief commercial officer of derivatives exchange Deribit. The largest cryptocurrency has settled into the $60,000 to $70,000 range in the past week, some 45% below the record high it hit in October. It’s on track to…
HONG KONG — Crypto finding a new niche as the payments tool of choice for machines, bitcoin BTC$66,745.22 not yet at rock bottom, U.S. regulatory changes and the role of prediction markets were some of the topics discussed at CoinDesk’s Consensus Hong Kong conference this week. “As AI agents become capable of making and executing…
Pakistan didn’t just wake up one morning and decide that it loves crypto, said the chairman of the country’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA). The country was in the unusual position of having one of the largest crypto markets on the planet, but no guardrails at all, PVARA chairman Bilal Bin Saqib told Consensus Hong…
Investment bank Standard Chartered lowered its short-term and full-year price forecasts for major cryptocurrencies, citing continued downside risk as exchange-traded fund (ETF) outflows and a challenging macro backdrop pressure the market. The bank now expects bitcoin BTC$66,199.60 to fall to around $50,000 in the coming months, with ether ETH$1,936.34 potentially bottoming near $1,400. The world’s…
