Financial institutions may be returning to South Korea’s crypto market and privacy-focused blockchain project Miden is trying to get ahead of the curve. Miden has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Korea Digital Asset (KODA), South Korea’s largest institutional digital-asset custodian, to collaborate on infrastructure and standards for regulated digital-asset adoption in the
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 2682.58, down 0.3% (-7.53) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. Three of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BCH (+2.0%) and AAVE (+0.7%). Laggards: POL (-3.1%) and ICP (-3.0%).
Tokenization is supposed to make markets faster and more accessible. But many onchain versions of real-world assets have fallen short of that promise, offering thin liquidity, slow settlement and prices that drift from reality, argues Yuki Yuminaga, co-founder and CEO of Tenbin Labs. His New York-based startup wants to change that by building institutional-grade tokenized
In the Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency market, all eyes are on tomorrow’s FED meeting and the FED chairman’s statements. Accordingly, the Fed will announce its first interest rate decision of 2026 tomorrow, followed by an oral statement from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. While it is widely expected that the Fed will keep interest rates unchanged
The Stock Market Today has seen a positive uptick with Nasdaq, Dow, and S&P 500 futures climbing as Wall Street gears up for the year’s first major decision by the Federal Reserve. The optimism of the investors is rising, and the key indexes are showing that there is optimism in the market. The pre-market profits
Retail investors have never had this much power. Five years after GameStop took off and stunned the market, regular traders are still here and louder than ever. They’ve pushed their way into the system, and they’re not leaving. They’ve become part of how the market works now. Tom Lee, who runs research at Fundstrat, said
French public company Capital B has renewed its long-term digital asset initiative, further aligning its treasury with the capital b bitcoin vision while relying on structured funding tools. Summary Capital B renews $356 million capital plan for Bitcoin Why the ATM structure suits Capital B’s Bitcoin roadmap Institutional backing through the TOBAM partnership Regulatory backdrop
Stablecoins pose a real risk to bank deposits both globally and in the United States, according to a new report by Standard Chartered analysts. The delay of the US CLARITY Act — a bill proposing to prohibit interest on stablecoin holdings — is a “reminder that stablecoins pose a risk to banks,” Geoff Kendrick, global
China may soon overtake the U.S. as the world’s largest Bitcoin holder. Even though the country has been following a nationwide crypto ban since 2021. Recent reports estimate China’s government holdings at around 194,000 BTC from the 2019 PlusToken seizure. This number puts it just 4,000 BTC short of the U.S.’s 198,000 BTC. Although some
AI-native neobanks are deploying hedge fund–style algorithms to actively manage user funds rather than just store them. Traditional neobanks still struggle with profitability and offer limited protection against inflation and currency volatility. Stablecoins are widely used as a hedge in volatile economies, but alone, they do not fully protect purchasing power. AI-native neobanks have started