This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter ‘Daybook.’ Sign up here, if you haven’t already. While bitcoin remains pinned above $80,000, another interest rate-sensitive corner of the crypto market is booming and may suck capital out of other coins. The total value locked in tokenized Treasuries has surged to $15.35 billion, topping the mid-April peak
Bitcoin is fighting a key technical battle and is trading just below two closely watched long-term trend indicators: the 200-day Simple Moving Average (200SMA) at $82,455 and the 200-day Exponential Moving Average (200EMA) at $82,027, according to Glassnode data. The 200SMA calculates the average closing price across the last 200 days, weighting each day equally.
Switzerland has launched its first live municipal blockchain project through a biodiversity reward voucher system built on the Hedera network and backed by a Swiss franc-linked digital payment instrument. According to an announcement shared with crypto.news by the Municipality of Muri bei Bern, the Canton of Bern municipality partnered with Swiss Web3 engineering firm The
XMAQUINA, a DAO platform that focuses on blending real-world robotics with Web3, today announced a significant expansion of its tokenized autonomous robots platform to the Base blockchain. This integration marks further XMAQUINA’s platform expansion on-chain, representing a crucial milestone in its mission to democratize the ownership and governance of robotics and automation technologies. XMAQUINA is
The Trump administration is continuing to double down on its pro-crypto stance, and recent comments from CFTC Chair Mike Selig gave one of the clearest signals yet about how Washington now views Bitcoin and digital assets. Speaking during a conversation on the Market Disruptors Podcast with Mark Moss, Selig said the chances of the United
Hong Kong-listed Digital Asset Clearing Center (DACC) has raised $10mn from strategic investors to build faster and cheaper alternatives to legacy bank transfers in the $214tn cross-border payments market. The round included Conflux Network (CFX), the only regulatory-compliant public blockchain in mainland China, backed by the Shanghai government; Transaction Technologies Limited; and Chinese-listed firms Kingdom
$TON AI smart contracts may have just become a lot less tedious. Pavel Durov has unveiled $TON Core’s new AI-powered toolchain, Acton, pitching it as a way to cut through the manual work of blockchain development and speed up the process dramatically. The launch date is already set: Acton went live on May 8, 2026.
Norway’s largest pension fund manager, KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS, has increased its exposure to Bitcoin indirectly by adding approximately $20.5 million worth of shares in MicroStrategy (MSTR), the software firm known for its substantial corporate Bitcoin holdings. The move, disclosed through data tracked by BitcoinTreasuries, brings KLP’s total stake to 104,680 shares, up from 95,160. KLP’s
Investors gave eToro Group (NASDAQ: ETOR) a quick double-take yesterday (Tuesday). Pre-market shares climbed roughly 6% to $41.20 on a 35% earnings beat, then reversed once the conference call started, dropping more than 6% intraday before settling at $37.61, a 3% loss for the session. The Q1 numbers were a clean beat on the headline
Base creator Jesse Pollak announced on May 13 that the x402 payment protocol now supports batched settlement, in an X post. x402 now supports batched settlement this unlocks many many tiny tiny payments (<$0.0001) which is perfect for paying for just in time resources like compute and inference https://t.co/V6Kjz9jqHQ — jesse.base.eth (@jessepollak) May 13, 2026