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Jack Mallers' bitcoin (BTC) payments app Strike is set to move into the BTC lending business.Strike plans to offer users a means of borrowing fiat while continuing to HODL bitcoin, Mallers wrote in a post on X on Wednesday."You shouldn’t have to sell the best-performing asset in human history to
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In financial markets, making assumptions based on short-term observations is a fool’s errand, as significant trends develop over months and years, not days or weeks. But as investors evaluate bitcoin’s role in their portfolios, the events of April are worth analyzing in order to understand the asset’s emerging reputation as
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The institutional acceptance of crypto around the world has accelerated significantly recently, developing hand in hand with better-defined regulation. Here, BlockFills CEO Nick Hammer discusses the reasons for crypto’s increasing institutional usage and some of the latest products responding to that demand.What trends are you seeing now in the digital
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Crypto exchange Gemini has hired Brad Vopni as head of institutional, the company told CoinDesk in an exclusive interview.Vopni will be responsible for overseeing and executing the firm's institutional strategy.Gemini is already working with exchange-traded fund (ETF) providers such as VanEck, Purpose, Evolve, 7RCC, and Monochrome, the company said."With a
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Global payments service provider Visa's (V) venture capital arm made a strategic investment in BVNK, a startup building stablecoin-based payment infrastructure, in a move that reflects legacy financial financial firms' push into blockchain-powered money movement."Visa’s deep expertise in building global payment networks, combined with our stablecoin infrastructure, creates powerful possibilities
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Shaurya is the Co-Leader of the CoinDesk tokens and data team in Asia with a focus on crypto derivatives, DeFi, market microstructure, and protocol analysis.Shaurya holds over $1,000 in BTC, ETH, SOL, AVAX, SUSHI, CRV, NEAR, YFI, YFII, SHIB, DOGE, USDT, USDC, BNB, MANA, MLN, LINK, XMR, ALGO, VET, CAKE,
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Move over dogecoin. The new memecoin making waves in tech Twitter’s inner sanctum isn’t just about fun; it’s about mindset.MOG Coin, a popular token offered on Ethereum and Base, is trying to bring in a cultural shift as “mog/acc” — a mashup of mogging (a slang for being better, stronger,
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The price of gold has surged almost 29% this year, solidly beating the 3.8% gain in bitcoin (BTC). Even so, that's failed to deter investors eager to add the largest cryptocurrency to their portfolios.BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF (IBIT) has attracted a net $6.96 billion in inflows since the start
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Bitcoin surged above $97,000 late Tuesday, then slid to $96,500 in Asian hours Wednesday as India conducted airstrikes in parts of Pakistan to intensify tensions from the past few weeks.A planned meeting to discuss U.S. and China tariffs sent risk assets higher in the hours since the U.S. stock market
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Shaurya is the Co-Leader of the CoinDesk tokens and data team in Asia with a focus on crypto derivatives, DeFi, market microstructure, and protocol analysis.Shaurya holds over $1,000 in BTC, ETH, SOL, AVAX, SUSHI, CRV, NEAR, YFI, YFII, SHIB, DOGE, USDT, USDC, BNB, MANA, MLN, LINK, XMR, ALGO, VET, CAKE,
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