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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Sinks Below $58K in Run-Up to Fed Decision
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for May 1, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s...
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Blockchain Sleuth Elliptic Explores AI and Anti-Money Laundering Using 200M Bitcoin Transactions
Patterns of illicit activity involving groups of bitcoin nodes and chains of transactions are described in a research paper by...
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As CZ Gets His Sentence, Michael Lewis Should Rewatch ‘Star Wars’
He likened FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried to Luke Skywalker and Binance's Changpeng Zhao to Darth Vader. Federal judges saw it differently.
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RWA Tokenization Firm Securitize Raises $47M Led by Fund Partner BlackRock
BlackRock and Securitize last month teamed up to create the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, which may prove to...
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Bitcoin Could Drop Further to as Low as $50K, Standard Chartered Says
The cryptocurrency is now trading below the average spot ETF purchase price of about $58K, and this could trigger liquidations,...
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‘Sell in May and Go Away’: The Seasonality of Crypto-asset Returns
The summer months, between June and September, have historically brought significantly lower investor returns than other months of the year,...
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An ETH ETF Wouldn’t Deliver Full-Returns to Investors
An SEC approval for spot ETH ETFs looks unlikely but even if the SEC approves exchange traded funds for Ether,...
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Bitcoin’s Ethereum-Style Programmability Could Come in 12 Months, Rootstock Founder Says
Rootstock's new plan to bring programmability to Bitcoin could unfold over the next 12 months. The project could lead to...
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The Protocol: EigenLayer’s ‘Intersubjective Forking’ Is Objectively Not Done
Much-hyped restaking project EigenLayer's 43-page whitepaper about its now-revealed EIGEN token has raised lots of questions. They may not matter...
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Federal Reserve Holds Policy Steady, Says Progress on Inflation Has Stalled
Hopes for a series of interest rate cuts in 2024 have been quickly vanishing over the past few weeks as...
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In-depth analysis of the stablecoin depeg from DeFi and the USDX event
Last week's stablecoin depegging once again shook the decentralized finance (DeFi) world, with USDX, a synthetic stablecoin issued by Stable...
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