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Inside the chaotic $300 million emergency bailout that saved a top crypto platform from total collapse

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is recovering from a string of sophisticated exploits that have triggered an intense debate over whether public blockchain protocols can truly...

Sam Bankman-Fried officially asks Donald Trump for a presidential pardon

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, formally sought a presidential pardon from President Donald Trump while serving a...

NEAR gains 12.3% as almost all CoinDesk 20 assets trade higher

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...

MSTR buys 1,550 BTC, boosts cash reserves to $1 billion

Strategy (MSTR) acquired 1,550 bitcoin for approximately $101 million, increasing its total holdings to 845,256 BTC, according to a Monday announcement from Executive Chairman...

CME is letting traders bet on bitcoin volatility, not price, and two firms have already placed bets

CME’s bitcoin BTC$62,945.93 volatility index futures began trading last week, offering investors a new way to trade and hedge price volatility. DV Chain and...

U.S. PCI report, ECB interest-rate decision: Crypto Week Ahead: Crypto Week Ahead

The second week of June puts the crypto market’s resilience to the test as digital assets battle an unusual divergence from record-setting equity markets....

Bitcoin’s rebound triggers the most short liquidations since late April

Bitcoin's recovery from last week's lows has crushed the traders who bet against it.Short sellers, who profit when prices fall, lost $504 million over...

Abra CEO Bill Barhydt sees tokenization overtaking bitcoin price as crypto’s main story

Bill Barhydt built Abra around a simple idea: Crypto should function like a bank.In 2018, Abra became one of the first companies to offer...

Meta is paying creators in Stablecoins. Spending them is someone else’s problem

In March, when Meta announced plans to begin paying creators in USDC across Colombia and the Philippines, with expansion to more than 160 countries...

Why quantitative traders are using complex math models to hijack your weekend sports bets

Chicago-based trading giant DRW has spent decades profiting from mismatches between different asset classes, and now it's building a dedicated prediction market desk targeting...

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Bitcoin at $66,300 as yen hits a 40-year low against dollar

Bitcoin held near $66,300 on Wednesday, consolidating a two-week...

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Bitcoin hits one-month high above $66,000 as the chip trade turns back into a tailwind

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