Despite the ongoing conflict between the US and Iran, Bitcoin ($BTC) and altcoins are having a strong week. Bitcoin has climbed above $75,000 for the first time in weeks, while altcoins are also experiencing double-digit gains. However, the critical week of the FED interest rate decision has arrived. In the Bitcoin ($BTC) and cryptocurrency market,
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 2148.63, down 0.9% (-20.59) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. One of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: NEAR (+0.4%) and CRO (+0.0%). Laggards: UNI (-4.1%) and SUI (-4.0%).
What if your office has a Monkey King on your team? That’s the idea behind Alibaba’s Wukong AI agent platform, named for Sun Wukong, the mischievous and clever hero of Journey to the West. Launched today, Wukong is an enterprise-focused AI tool designed to coordinate multiple AI agents through a unified interface. According to Alibaba,
Mastercard announced Tuesday an agreement to buy BVNK, a stablecoin infrastructure company, for up to $1.8 billion, including $300 million in contingent payments. The deal expands Mastercard’s end-to-end support of digital assets and value movement across currencies, rails and regions. U.K.-based BVNK describes itself as the stablecoin-powered financial stack for enterprises, which moves money in
S&P 500 financial stocks are off to a bad start on Tuesday, March 17, forming the first Death Cross since October 2023. What that means is that the stocks’ short-term moving average (MA) has crossed below its long-term trend line, which signals weakening momentum and growing downside risk. While Death Crosses are often viewed as
Dtcpay funding raises US$10 million in Series A to expand compliant digital payments in Europe, detailing licensing, Visa tie-up, strategy. Backed by strategic capital and fresh regulatory approvals, Singapore-based dtcpay funding is set to accelerate the rollout of compliant digital payment solutions across Europe and key global markets. Series A round and strategic backers Digital
China resumed large-scale military operations near Taiwan on March 15, sending 26 aircraft and 7 naval vessels toward the island in the largest show of force in weeks. The activity follows an unusual two-week lull in Chinese flights near Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). Analysts are now reassessing the economic risks of a Taiwan
No major AI company has endorsed crypto trading bots. No frontier lab is training models for it. Yet a growing number of traders are using Anthropic’s Claude to build automated Polymarket bots, claiming profits in the millions. Viral threads suggest anyone can do it. But the loudest winners are using strategies any quant fund could
Nvidia shares failed to sustain a rally on Monday despite a series of headline-grabbing announcements at the company’s annual GTC developer conference. The stock briefly jumped during CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote but later pulled back, ending the session with only modest gains. NVIDIA Stock Price Chart on Monday, March 16. Source: Google Finance Investors initially
Wall Street private-credit funds are slowing the exits as withdrawal pressure builds As Bitcoin climbs and holds above $73,000, several of Wall Street’s biggest private-credit funds have capped, stretched, or halted withdrawals, according to recent filings and reports tied to BlackRock, Blackstone, Morgan Stanley, Cliffwater, and Blue Owl. JPMorgan has also marked down some private-credit