Crypto prices experienced a rare spike higher just after U.S. stocks opened for trade on Wednesday, taking bitcoin BTC$87,018.43 back above the $90,000 level for the first time since last weekend. Among possible bullish catalysts were continued big gains in metals prices, with silver ahead about 5% to a new record above $66 per ounce.
Eight years after co-founding Securitize in 2017, Carlos Domingo is steering what has quietly become one of the core infrastructure players of the tokenized asset trade. This feature is a part of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2025 list. The firm says it has about $3.6 billion in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) outstanding as of late November and
Brazil is testing blockchain technology to overhaul its public-sector real estate auctions. In a first for the country, the Court of Auditors of the State of São Paulo (TCE-SP) will oversee an initiative to log all documents from a public property sale on-chain, aiming to eliminate tampering and reduce legal disputes in high-risk asset sales.
Bitcoin price’s $87,106, anchoring a $1.73 trillion market with $42.92 billion in 24-hour trading volume and a tightly wound price band between $86,282 and $87,918, reflects a market idling at the intersection of caution and fatigue. Bitcoin is digesting its recent correction with all the enthusiasm of a trader staring at a flat chart, consolidating
Bitcoin continues to trade under pressure as technical weakness, futures activity, and shifting market sentiment shape its short-term outlook. On the four-hour chart, BTC holds below key resistance zones while investors weigh rising derivatives participation against renewed crash warnings. Consequently, the market remains cautious as traders assess whether support can hold or further downside emerges.
Next year’s first quarter could prove kinder to Bitcoin than late 2025, not because bank-run stablecoins arrive overnight, but because the pipes feeding retail and advisors just widened. Vanguard reversed its crypto ban, opening spot ETF access to roughly 50 million clients. Bank of America advisors can now recommend crypto allocations of 1% to 4%
After Jerome Powell stepped down as FED chairman in May, Kevin Warsh and Kevin Hassett came to the forefront, but a surprise name emerged at the last minute. At this point, Christopher Waller, a member of the Federal Reserve, has also emerged as a leading candidate for the FED chairmanship and has made important statements
Bhutan has taken a remarkable step by placing crypto assets at the heart of its national development strategy. The Himalayan Kingdom announced plans to allocate up to 10,000 Bitcoins to support its new economic and social development project called “Gelephu Mindfulness City.” This commitment, worth approximately $860 million at current prices, demonstrates that Bitcoin is
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 2726.78, down 0.5% (-14.03) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Two of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BCH (+0.8%) and SOL (+0.3%). Laggards: NEAR (-4.1%) and SUI
EquiLend, a securities finance utility giant with $40 trillion in lendable assets, said it made a “strategic” minority investment in Digital Prime Technologies, a regulated crypto financing provider. The company said it is responding to client demand for governed, transparent workflows that can run straight from trading to post-trade processing and reporting across both traditional