Category: Business

Have you had “deploy a stablecoin” and “build an AI agent” on your business to-do list since the beginning of the year? You know these technologies will create business efficiencies, but finding the time to really get a grasp, a hands-on grasp, of these solutions has proved hard to find. You might even feel like

Wall Street banking giant UBS forecasts further Fed rate cuts later this year. This comes as Fed Governor Stephen Miran claims the US-Iran war and tariffs will not have long-term impacts on inflation, but expects three rate cuts instead of four in 2026.

Tokenization does not automatically make hard-to-trade assets liquid, industry executives said at Paris Blockchain Week, pushing back on the idea that putting private credit, real estate or other illiquid products onchain will by itself create active secondary markets. Speaking during a panel moderated by Cointelegraph CEO Yana Prikhodchenko, Oya Celiktemur, Ondo Finance sales director for

American economist and “Gold bug” Peter Schiff warned Michael Saylor of lawsuits as Strategy uses funds raised from STRC perpetual preferred stock to buy Bitcoin. He calls STRC “misleading to constitute fraud.”

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 2125.52, up 0.3% (+7.28) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. Nine of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: XLM (+1.5%) and HBAR (+1.4%). Laggards: NEAR (-2.3%) and DOT (-1.6%).

With the two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran nearing its end, a second round of talks is expected to take place. According to Axios, the US and Iran will likely hold talks in Islamabad on April 19. Axios also reported that Iran said the deal was for the US to release $200 billion in

Europe needs more euro-issued stablecoins and banks across the European Union (EU) countries must explore tokenized deposits, French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said Friday, according to Reuters. The statements signal a potential shift in stance within the French government and its central bank. Lescure expressed support for Qivalis, a group of 12 ​European banks, including

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the next wave of AI could become a major source of digital dollar demand. He said in a post on X that if autonomous AI agents begin buying, selling, booking, hedging, and settling transactions on their own, they will need money built for internet speed. Armstrong added that stablecoins and

Bitcoin ($BTC) and altcoins have recently been experiencing a positive trend, influenced by news of the ongoing ceasefire between the US and Iran. While the $BTC price fluctuates between $74,000 and $75,000, the positive sentiment continues in altcoins. This positive market sentiment has also been reflected in US spot ETFs, with inflows being observed in

Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has urged US authorities to prepare a contingency plan for a potential future collapse in demand for US Treasurys, warning that the fallout would be “vicious.” “We need an emergency break-the-glass plan, which is targeted and short-term, on the shelf, so it’s ready to go when we hit the wall,”