Cantor Equity Partners I (CEPO) is changing hands just shy of $15 in morning U.S. action, up about 25% from the $12 level it traded at prior to a late-Tuesday story from the FT that the company and Adam Back were nearing
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the ether treasury strategy firm helmed by Fundstrat’s Thomas Lee, is rebounding on Wednesday on news that prominent tech investor Peter Thiel invested in the company. According to a Tuesday filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Disclaimer: The analyst who wrote this article owns shares in Strategy. Jim Chanos, the founder of Kynikos Associates who famously shorted U.S. energy giant Enron before it collapsed in 2001, has set his sights on Strategy (MSTR), arguing the bitcoin (BTC)-buying company’s
Everyone’s rushing into stablecoins, but the numbers look… the same. In Q2, it felt like you couldn’t go a day without a major stablecoin announcement. JPMorgan launched its USD Deposit Token on Base. Coinbase debuted its stablecoin payment stack following the Shopify
Nasdaq-listed Blockchain Technology Consensus Solutions (BTCS) is joining the Russell Microcap Index, giving the Ethereum-focused firm greater exposure among investors who track the benchmark for smaller U.S. companies. The Maryland-based firm announced earlier this month a $100 million funding plan to acquire
Ethereum scaling network Arbitrum’s token ARB is gaining on Thursday as speculation swirled that the network could be next where PayPal’s U.S. dollar stablecoin PYUSD will be deployed. The network was recently added to PayPal’s cryptocurrency terms and conditions webpage as a
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3701.0, up 2.7% (+97.31) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Nineteen of 20 assets are trading
What to know: XRP rose 1.79% from $2.89 to $2.95 between July 15 13:00 and July 16 12:00, after dropping as low as $2.84 early in the session. Trading volume spiked to 134.08 million during the initial decline, with strong buy-side absorption
José Fernández da Ponte, formerly the head of blockchain at PayPal, has left the fintech giant, where he oversaw the roll-out of digital currencies and stablecoins, to become president and chief growth officer of the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF). The foundation also
Talos, an institutional trading technology provider for digital assets, is set to acquire crypto data firm Coin Metrics in a deal exceeding $100 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. The acquisition will combine Talos’s execution and portfolio management infrastructure