Crypto industry’s Coinbase, Gemini, and Bullish are getting crushed. Their stocks have dropped as much as 55% over the last three months, while Bitcoin is down a little over 35% since its October peak. There’s no meltdown, no hacks, no lawsuits. Just silence. And that silence is hitting trading platforms the hardest. These exchanges live
Securitize has built a regulation-first tokenization platform that has scaled more than $4 billion in real-world assets. Unlike many tokenization projects focused on equities or experimental assets, research shows that most demand on Securitize comes from low-risk institutional products. US Treasury-backed assets account for about 59% of the tokenized supply on the platform. Private equity
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 2285.37, down 9.3% (-234.22) since 4 p.m. ET on Friday. None of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BCH (-4.0%) and CRO (-4.9%). Laggards: ETH (-13.9%) and APT
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) said Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust, a Chicago-based single-branch lender, became the first US bank to fail this year after regulators shut it down on Friday and appointed the FDIC as receiver. First Independence Bank will assume substantially all deposits of the failed Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust and
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recognized the need to consider Bitcoin and cryptocurrency when measuring economic growth. In its latest publication, the organization identified the significance of crypto and emerging technologies on global finance. Measure Crypto From a Public Policy Perspective According to the IMF, it has become imperative to measure crypto from a
South Korea’s financial markets faced extreme pressure after a sharp selloff triggered emergency controls. The KOSPI index plunged more than five percent in a single session. Authorities responded by halting all sell orders across the exchange. This dramatic move stunned investors and traders worldwide. Market participants watched liquidity vanish as futures and equities froze. Traders
David Schwartz, known as one of the original $XRP Ledger architects and the cryptographic brain behind Ripple, has finally set the record straight on the two trades that the crypto $XRP community will not stop mocking him for — dumping 40,000 $ETH at $1.05 and exiting nearly all of his Bitcoin before it crossed $7,500.
President Donald Trump picked Kevin Warsh to run the world’s most powerful central bank on earth in 2026, and the biggest problem on his desk is the Fed’s $6.6 trillion balance sheet. Everyone keeps talking about interest rates, but the real weight is this pile of assets the Fed’s been sitting on for years. This
Crypto investment products continued their sell-off last week as investor sentiment weakened, marking two consecutive weeks of outflows. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) saw $1.7 billion in outflows during the week, the European crypto investment company CoinShares reported on Monday. The outflows were slightly below $1.73 billion in the week prior, totaling $3.43 billion in the
Michael Saylor’s Strategy is starting to fall apart, and there’s no more pretending otherwise. Over the weekend, Cryptopolitan reported that Bitcoin had dropped under $76,000, breaking the line that had been holding up Saylor’s plan for years, which is exactly $76,037, the average level where Strategy Inc. bought its Bitcoin. And now, Saylor is officially