Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran is prepared for a possible US ground operation and that such an undertaking would be a “major disaster” for the US. Speaking in an interview, Araghchi added that Iran is not open to any negotiations with the US and has not requested a ceasefire. Speaking via video link
Sanctions evasion dominated crypto-related illicit finance last year, with state actors including Russia, Iran and North Korea driving a surge in activity, Chainalysis said in a Thursday report. Sanctioned entities received at least $104 billion in cryptocurrency, an almost eightfold increase on 2024, pushing total illicit onchain volume to a record $154 billion. The findings
On RWA.xyz’s dashboard, the represented asset value now sits around the $390B range, close enough to the $400B headline to change how the market reads the category. In two exclusive BeInCrypto interviews, we spoke with Gate Group’s Chief Business Officer and ChangeNOW’s CSO, Pauline Shangett, to understand where RWAs are heading. Lee describes a move
In today’s newsletter, Nick Ducoff, head of institutional growth at the Solana Foundation, draws a parallel between tokenization’s ability to democratize investment access and how the Internet facilitated access to banking over fifteen years ago. Then, in Ask an Expert, the CoinDesk Research Team answers questions about stablecoin and tokenization trends from their February 2026
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 2064.51, down 1.6% (-33.92) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. One of 20 assets is trading higher. Leaders: ICP (+1.1%) and UNI (-0.4%). Laggards: XLM (-3.5%) and LTC (-2.8%).
Despite the brief crypto market rally seen over the past day, $XRP ETFs have retained the weak momentum as they have shown limited investor activity during their last trading session. According to data provided by SosoValue on March 4, only one $XRP fund recorded new capital inflows, while others showed zero performances even as the
Finbold has analyzed how a hypothetical $1,000 investment in the world’s largest cryptocurrencies would have performed since the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025. In this experiment, an investor allocates $100 to each of the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization on Inauguration Day and holds the portfolio until March 5, 2026. Because
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis believes that Wall Street banks and crypto companies could soon operate within the same financial ecosystem. Her remarks followed a notable development involving crypto exchange Kraken, which recently obtained access to a Federal Reserve master account. Specifically, the approval connects the company directly to the U.S. central banking payment infrastructure. Speaking