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 2882.46, up 0.0% (+0.76) since 4 p.m. ET on Friday. Four of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: SOL (+3.1%) and ETH (+0.9%). Laggards: LTC (-6.2%) and HBAR (-3.8%).
VelaFi, a stablecoin-powered financial infrastructure provider under Galactic Holdings, has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by XVC and Ikuyo, the company said in a press release Monday. The round also included participation from Alibaba Investment, Planetree, BAI Capital, and other global investors, bringing the company’s total funding to more than
Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest publicly traded holder of bitcoin, increased its bitcoin holdings for the third consecutive week and its biggest purchase since July. Led by executive chairman Michael Saylor, the company added 13,627 bitcoin for $1.25 billion, at an average price of roughly $91,519 per bitcoin. Strategy now holds 687,410 BTC, acquired for
Media coverage of the threat posed by quantum computing usually identifies cryptocurrencies as a key area of classical cryptography that will be effortlessly broken when the technology hits the mainstream which, according to some estimates, may be less than a decade from now. Simply stated, computer chips based on quantum mechanics can perform some calculations
Key Takeaways Standard Chartered is planning to launch a crypto prime brokerage under its venture capital arm, SC Ventures. The brokerage aims to serve institutional clients with services like custody, financing, trading, and clearing for digital assets. Standard Chartered, the leading British multinational bank, is considering launching a crypto prime brokerage that would sit under
Tempo, a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain for stablecoins and real-world payments, has announced its strategic partnership with DeepNode AI, a decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project based on blockchain technology. The hidden objective behind this integration is to convert centralized AI into a decentralized network for easily accessible and validated data. Centralized AI concentrates power, limits
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Since its introduction in 2009, bitcoin BTC$90,709.15 fans have seen it as an anti-establishment asset and a shield against financial mismanagement and political turmoil. Yet on Monday, the largest cryptocurrency is trailing traditional safety assets such as gold even as tensions between President Donald Trump and
For the first time since May 2023, Bitcoin Core maintainers have increased the number of Trusted Keys possessing Commit power to the master branch of Bitcoin Core software. On January 8, 2026, pseudonymous developer TheCharlatan, also known as “sedited,” joined the five other keyholders. TheCharlatan joins Marco Falke, Gloria Zhao, Ryan Ofsky, Hennadii Stepanov, and
The Fed made successive interest rate cuts in the final months of 2025. However, the outlook for 2026 does not look very positive. At this point, Goldman Sachs revised its forecast regarding the Fed’s interest rate cuts. According to Reuters, Goldman Sachs revised its Fed expectations, pointing to rate cuts in June and September instead
U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds shed around $681 million over the past week as institutional demand appears to be losing momentum. Despite this, charts show a highly bullish pattern remains at play. Summary Bitcoin price has rebounded back after a bearish week. Bitcoin ETFs logged $681 million in net outflows over the past week. An