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
BNB rose nearly 2% over the past 24-hour period to near the $700 mark, lifted by growing buyer appetite amid a wider cryptocurrency market rally. Across the broader crypto market, Binance maintained its grip as the top exchange in the second quarter,
Midas, a financial tokenization platform, said it is introducing two tokenized investment products on Etherlink, an Ethereum-compatible layer-2 overlay system for faster and cheaper transactions, built using the Tezos blockchain. The new products, mMEV and mRe7YIELD, are designed to offer opportunities in
EMBARGO: July 16 – 8am ET Aethir, a decentralized GPU cloud network, teamed up with Credible Finance, a lending protocol, to introduce what they say is the first credit card and loan product powered by a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN). The
BONK surged 18.2% over the past day, breaking decisively through multiple resistance levels to settle at $0.00003343 – its highest price in months. The rally comes amid renewed optimism in crypto markets, with altcoins leading a charge that saw total market capitalization
PEPE surged more than 6% over the last 24 hours, climbing to $0.00001285. Volatility remained intense, with the token swinging between $0.000011981 and $0.000013081, a nearly 9% intraday range. While PEPE’s performance stands out, the CoinDesk Memecoin Index (CDMEME) surged 7.12% in
China Merchants Bank’s (CMBI) brokerage arm has attained a virtual assets license from Hong Kong, becoming the first Mainland China broker to do so, South China Morning Post (SCMP) said. The license, which was issued on Monday by the Hong Kong’s Securities