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Staunch crypto skeptic and disgraced former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Wednesday on charges of bribery and acting as an agent for Egypt, the Associated Press reported. Menendez was a Democrat from New Jersey and
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), has amassed $356.7 million in indirect bitcoin (BTC) exposure, according to K33 Research. At the end of 2024, the fund indirectly held 3,821 BTC, reflecting a 153% year-over-year increase from
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) The crypto market is trading positively with the Fed risk event out of the way, focusing on positives such as the crypto-friendly president in the White House, the renewed upswing in Tether’s market,
Institution-focused digital asset technology and trading firm BlockFills is collaborating with CoinDesk Indices to launch options tied to the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20). The CoinDesk 20 Index, which debuted a year ago, measures the performance of leading digital assets, catering to institutional
Bitcoin traded around the $105,000 level in European morning hours Thursday as the year’s first U.S. FOMC meeting concluded with keeping rates steady, bumping sentiment across stock equities and crypto markets. Jerome Powell-led FOMC maintained the policy rate steady at 4.25-4.50 per
Bernstein remains bullish on Core Scientific (CORZ) even after the shares tumbled 30% earlier this week as Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek challenged the idea that bitcoin (BTC) miners had value as data center plays. The slide means the stock is
Swap volumes on XRP Ledger’s decentralized exchange (DEX) crossed the $400 million mark in January as the network gains traction among larger players, Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse said in a community call on Wednesday, Volumes average over $17 million daily this
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group announced it will introduce options on Bitcoin Friday Futures (BFF) starting on Feb. 24, pending regulatory approval. According to the press release, BFF was CME Group’s most successful cryptocurrency launch. More than 775,000 contracts traded since launch on
The cost of using Avalanche, a DeFi-focused smart-contract blockchain, has slumped since the implementation of the Avalanche9000 upgrade on Dec. 16, sending the number of transactions up by more than a third. Since the upgrade, the proof-of-stake blockchain’s usage fees known as
Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency, has fallen out of investor relative to bitcoin (BTC), returning the worst bull-cycle performance against its larger rival since the Ethereum blockchain’s inception in 2015. A comparison of the ether to bitcoin ratio across past cycles from