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With a formal departure announcement from U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Rostin Behnam, January 20 is now the official last day of both heads of the U.S. markets regulators. Behnam joins Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler on choosing the very last day of the administration of President Joe Biden as their final […]

Ether spent most of 2024 trailing behind its cryptocurrency peers but has now firmly joined the rally sparked by bitcoin’s record-breaking climb, crossing the $4,000 mark in December but well below its all time high of $4,900. In 2024, ether gained around 53% compared to bitcoin’s 113% surge; however, ether’s recent performance shows promise. Since

Landlocked between six different neighbors in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia has approximately 120 million inhabitants, making it the second most populous nation on the continent, and a GDP of $163 billion, which puts it in the same economic league as Ukraine, Morocco, Slovakia or Kuwait. However, the country has also suffered from a bloody

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 3701.1, down 1.1% (-39.29) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. Four of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: APT (+4.6%) and ADA (+2.2%). Laggards: POL (-3.1%) and LINK (-3.1%).

Ripple, an enterprise-focused blockchain service closely related to the XRP Ledger (XRP), said Tuesday that it will use data provider Chainlink’s (LINK) services to better integrate its RLUSD stablecoin with decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. This feature, which went live today on the Ethereum blockchain, allows developers to incorporate RLUSD into DeFi protocols for trading, lending

By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) It’s still early in 2025, and already we’re seeing a significant divergence between bitcoin and the S&P 500. BTC is looking to secure a foothold above $100,000, and its Deribit-listed options are indicating a bullish bias. The same can’t be said of the S&P 500, which

Crypto exchange Gemini agreed to pay $5 million to settle a case with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission over allegedly misleading statements it made more than seven years ago about how easily the price of a bitcoin futures contract could be manipulated. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss’ exchange settled without admitting or denying liability, according

Disclaimer: The analyst who wrote this piece owns shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR) and Semler Scientific (SMLR). As interest in digital assets continues to rise, a new phase of corporate adoption for bitcoin (BTC) appears to be taking shape, with publicly listed firms following MicroStrategy’s lead by adding BTC to their balance sheets. It all started

Bitcoin (BTC) miners’ daily revenue and gross profit rose for the second consecutive month in December, hitting the highest levels since April, JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report on Monday. Mining profitability increased as the rally in the world’s largest cryptocurrency continued to outpace network hashrate growth, the bank noted. JPMorgan estimated that bitcoin

AI Agents and stock market parody tokens may have been all the rage in recent weeks, but big players are active in dogecoin (DOGE) markets, with some targeting a $1 level in 2025. Data from multiple sources shows an uptick in interest from whales, a colloquial term for wealthy and influential market participants, with a