Key senators critical to advancing the crypto market structure legislation may soon be willing to move forward on the bill, individuals familiar tell CoinDesk. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions. Crypto negotiators’ hopes are bubbling up over…
Every revolution eventually becomes the establishment. What began as crypto’s peer-to-peer challenge to the global financial order is rapidly being absorbed into the traditional fold, trading its anti-elite soul for the legitimacy of spot ETFs, institutional custody and the same banking frameworks it was built to bypass. This is a familiar arc. Throughout history, every…
Bitcoin’s BTC$66,920.47 recent tendency to move in step with U.S. equities does not erase its value as a portfolio diversifier. That’s according to financial services and infrastructure firm NYDIG. In a weekly market note, Greg Cipolaro, the company’s global head of research, said correlations between bitcoin and stock benchmarks such as the S&P 500, the…
XRP edged lower after a technical breakdown earlier in the session, with buyers now attempting to stabilize price near the $1.35 support area. News Background XRP has remained under pressure in recent sessions as the token trades within a broader corrective structure that has persisted since late February. Price action has largely been driven by…
The smart money allocating to bitcoin bought the panic last week. Then it sold the rally to everyone else. Whales holding between 10 and 10,000 bitcoin accumulated heavily between Feb. 23 and March 3, when bitcoin was trading between $62,900 and $69,600, according to Santiment. That window covered the worst of the Iran war sell-off…
Circle has begun using its own stablecoin infrastructure to move money between internal entities, settling $68 million in transfers using USDC, CEO Jeremy Allaire said Saturday. The transactions were executed through Circle Mint, the company’s platform for minting and redeeming USDC. The firm’s treasury team used the system to carry out intercompany transfer pricing —…
Prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket are discussing potential fundraising rounds that could value each company at about $20 billion. If completed at that level, the deals would roughly double their valuations from late 2025. The discussions remain early and may not lead to finalized investments, according to the Wall Street Journal. Prediction markets allow…
BlackRock’s Rick Rieder, UBS’s Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi, and hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb see a 2026 economy that may keep growing even as the market’s center of gravity shifts. The broad message from their separate appearances at a conference in Miami last week was not that the AI boom is ending. Instead, they said, the easy…
Block CEO Jack Dorsey says his company will support stablecoins, despite having long argued that Bitcoin should serve as the internet’s native money protocol. In an interview with WIRED, Dorsey acknowledged the change while making clear it reflects customer demand rather than a shift in personal belief. “I don’t like that we’re going to support…
The Trump administration’s new national cyber strategy places the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies within the United States’ broader push to maintain leadership in emerging technology. In a section focused on maintaining “superiority in critical and emerging technologies,” the document states that the government will support the security of “cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.” The…
