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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
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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
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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
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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
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Michael Barr, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, will step down from his position on Feb. 28 — or earlier, if a successor is confirmed — according to a Monday announcement from the Federal Reserve.Barr will continue to serve as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.In
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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 3671.0, down 0.2% (-6.46) since 4 p.m. ET last Friday.10 of 20 assets are trading higher.Leaders: RENDER (+8.4%) and FIL (+7.1%).Laggards: HBAR (-3.5%) and ADA
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Disclaimer: The analyst who wrote this piece owns shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR).MicroStrategy (MSTR) has increased its bitcoin (BTC) holdings for the ninth consecutive week.MicroStrategy holds more bitcoin than any other publicly traded company. In the week ending Jan. 5, MicroStrategy purchased a further 1,020 BTC for $101 million, bringing its
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Four digital assets companies have just secured Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) licenses in the Netherlands, letting them operate across the entire 27-nation European Union.Crypto platform MoonPay, digital asset management company BitStaete, bitcoin lightning FinTech ZBD and prime brokerage and clearing company Hidden Road attained the much desired crypto asset
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Will he stay, or will he go? For Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the latter appears imminent. Now bettors on Polymarket are debating on when exactly he'll announce his resignation.While Trudeau resignation contracts aren't anything new, there are two with low six-figures of volume attached to them asking if he'll
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Two of the biggest corporate bitcoin (BTC) holders plan to continue adding more BTC to their already sizeable coffers.Per tweets over the weekend, Bitcoin development firm MicroStrategy (MSTR) plans to raise up to $2 billion through preferred stock offerings to fuel more bitcoin purchases in the first quarter of 2025.Elsewhere
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