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CoinDesk 3d ago

Moonshot AI IPO push follows Kimi, Alibaba AI releases that shook bitcoin ↗

Days after Kimi K3 rattled chip stocks, Moonshot is moving toward a Hong Kong listing at a $30 billion-plus valuation while Alibaba's Qwen goes open-weight.

CoinDesk 3d ago

Bitcoin ETFs see new money again, but inflows remain ‘peanuts’ relative to the recent exodus ↗

Bitcoin ETFs have attracted $273 million in new inflows in two weeks, but the total is barely enough to cover a single "slow" week of recent selling.

CoinDesk 3d ago

Bitcoin flat near $64,000 as oil hits a one-month high and Kimi AI selloff lingers ↗

Brent jumped almost 4% on escalating U.S.-Iran strikes, while Asian chip stocks stayed under pressure from Friday's Chinese AI shock.

CoinDesk 3d ago

The GENIUS Act turns 1: State of Crypto ↗

The stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act became a law a year ago.

CoinDesk 3d ago

Bitcoin's biggest advocate, Michael Saylor, says new plan to clean up the blockchain is 'a bad idea' ↗

Michael Saylor argues that a new proposal, BIP-110, to temporarily block "spam" data from the Bitcoin blockchain would undermine the network's neutrality and create a dangerous precedent for censorship.

CoinDesk 3d ago

AI is destroying the internet. Math is our only hope. ↗

The rise of autonomous AI agents necessitates the utilization of zero-knowledge proofs, argues Brian Trunzo, chief growth officer at Succinct Labs.

CoinDesk 3d ago

Tether's USDT hits 2-year countdown threatening its position on U.S. crypto platforms ↗

The GENIUS Act has hit its first anniversary without U.S. regulators yet meeting deadlines to write regulations, though rules will be in full effect by July 2028.

CoinDesk 3d ago

Kraken says simpler options can unlock crypto's next derivatives market ↗

The Wyoming-based firm launched USD-settled bitcoin and ether options, saying product design, not demand, has held back adoption.

CoinDesk 4d ago

Bitcoin’s quantum problem gets a recovery tool, but not for Satoshi’s 1.1 million coins ↗

Project Eleven says it has funded a proof that lets a wallet's own key-derivation path stand in as ownership after quantum computers can forge its signatures. It runs in 243 milliseconds on a laptop.

CoinDesk 4d ago

Inside Zcash's new node that targets Visa-scale privacy at 50,000 transactions per second ↗

The new Zakura client is the first live piece of a plan to take Zcash from roughly one private transaction per second to payment-network scale.

CoinDesk 4d ago

France orders country's internet service providers to block Polymarket ↗

The regulator cited concerns over addictive mechanics, a lack of self-exclusion tools, and a high volume of French users bypassing previous financial restrictions.

CoinDesk 4d ago

Crypto executives say digital native generations may never need a bank account ↗

teakhouse Financial co-founder Adrian Cachinero says digital-native generations may rely less on banks, while Binance says younger users are already driving crypto adoption in emerging markets.

CoinDesk 4d ago

DOG Mode explains Bitcoin's next governance fight ↗

Leonidas' DOG Mode client challenges Bitcoin's default relay policies, reopening a philosophical debate over censorship, free markets and who really governs the network.

CoinDesk 4d ago

Trump targets Brazil's payments system while dollar stablecoins are quietly overtaking country's payments ↗

Washington views Brazil’s promotion of non-dollar payment channels, including Pix and the growth of stablecoins, as a potential threat to dollar-based trade, even as dollar-linked stablecoins account for about 90% of Brazil's crypto transactions.

CoinDesk 4d ago

Here is why a massive $1.6 billion in crypto liquidity is sitting idle and wasting away ↗

About $542 million weekly sat outside active trading ranges, meaning this capital earned zero fees and provided no market depth.

CoinDesk 4d ago

Massive bitcoin call spreads target $72,000 by month end, right when the Fed meets ↗

Large traders are betting on a BTC price rise to $72,000 by the end of the month, latest options market flow suggests.

CoinDesk 4d ago

Tokenization has become a strategic priority for 84% of financial firms ↗

A Broadridge survey found Wall Street is accelerating tokenization efforts while betting on hybrid markets where digital and traditional assets coexist.

CoinDesk 5d ago

Polymarket traders cut Clarity Act passage odds to record low as Senate delay drags on ↗

Polymarket bettors have cut the odds of the CLARITY Act passing this year to a record low as Senate negotiations over ethics provisions remain unresolved.

CoinDesk 5d ago

Stripe and Swift race to control the next generation of global payments infrastructure ↗

Crypto and blockchain experts say this week's moves show the two established finance companies are increasingly competing for control of the infrastructure behind digital payments.

CoinDesk 5d ago

Cardano hands core development to outside teams in decentralization push ↗

Input Output will transfer control of the Haskell node, Plutus, Hydra and other components as founder Charles Hoskinson says the network must change and start growing again.

CoinDesk 5d ago

Inside Robinhood’s high-stakes bet to onboard 10 million casual users onto decentralized finance ↗

The company says its advantage lies in bringing retail customers onchain, but early activity remains dominated by memecoins, while its original tokenization vision remains small.

CoinDesk 5d ago

Japan's SBI Group is building Asia's first cross-border digital asset empire ↗

The securities giant announced today the consolidation of Singapore-based Coinhako as part of a rapid regional expansion that includes a tokenization partnership with Ondo Finance.

CoinDesk 5d ago

Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark ↗

Moonshot's Kimi K3 took the top spot in frontend coding away from Claude and OpenAI, and it's free. Semiconductor stocks fell, and crypto fell with them.

CoinDesk 5d ago

Live markets: Bitcoin slips to $63,000 as the chip rout goes global ↗

A deepening global selloff in chipmakers dragged risk assets lower, pulling bitcoin back from the $65,000 it reached on this week's soft inflation print.

CoinDesk 5d ago

Risk-off wave drags bitcoin below $63,000 as AI selloff spreads from stocks to crypto ↗

Crypto fell as AI stock fatigue and U.S.-Iran tensions weighed on sentiment, though a technical measure hints at oversold conditions heading into the weekend.

CoinDesk 6d ago

Airbnb CEO says X account was hacked, attacker posted AI-slop on tokenization ↗

Brian Chesky regained control of his account and told any new crypto followers he would be a "disappointing follow".

CoinDesk 6d ago

Ether falls twice as hard as bitcoin and HYPE drops 10% as the chip trade unwinds ↗

Japan's Nikkei had its worst day since March. Ether is still the only major holding a gain on the week, barely.

CoinDesk 6d ago

This $28 million ether market bet aims to profit from pure market chaos ↗

The mega trade aims to profit from a potential surge in ether price turbulence.

CoinDesk 6d ago

Bitcoin’s anti-spam fight gets a 'DOG Mode' reply ↗

While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote at all.

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