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The largest tokenized U.S. Treasury fund, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), can now be used as collateral on two of the most active crypto trading platforms, Crypto.com and Deribit, issuer Securitize said in a Wednesday press release.The listings allow institutional traders to post BUIDL tokens as margin
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According to reports, Iranian cryptocurrency exchange Nobitex suffered a breach, with onchain data revealing that around $82 million was siphoned from its reserves. A hacker collective calling itself Predatory Sparrow has claimed responsibility for the coordinated hit on the centralized exchange (CEX). Hackers Loot Iran’s Nobitex, Threaten Full Source Code
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Canadian asset manager 3iQ launched a new XRP-focused ETF for North American users. The 3iQ XRP ETF (XRPQ) began trading today on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), offering investors direct exposure to the fourth-largest digital asset by market cap.Ripple, the blockchain company behind the XRP Ledger and the XRP (XRP)
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This is a daily technical analysis by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole.There is an old saying, "Once is a chance, twice is a coincidence, and a third time is a trend."It applies to bitcoin right now. The cryptocurrency's price has fallen back to its 50-day simple
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Crypto asset manager 3iQ has introduced an XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the company said on Wednesday.The 3iQ XRP ETF (TSX: XRPQ) will launch with a 0% management fee for the first six months and is available for investment through registered accounts in Canada, and
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By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)Bitcoin (BTC) is hovering a smidgen under $105,000 having dropped just 1.4% in the past 24 hours as crypto markets balanced the Israel-Iran war with regulatory progress in the U.S.Tensions in the Middle East are heightening after President Donald Trump called for
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Corporate adoption of bitcoin is well-known, and most of it involves a classic buy-and-hold strategy, loosely analogous to the dollar-cost averaging (DCA) strategy.While investors of all kinds widely prefer DCA, new research by crypto options market maker Orbit Markets shows that since 2023, it has underperformed a structured product
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It’s only a matter of time until every cryptocurrency exchange and fintech firm is running its own blockchain, according to OP Labs, builder of Ethereum overlay protocol Optimism.The logic is straightforward and simple, says OP Labs head of product, Sam McIngvale, pointing to the runaway success of Coinbase’s layer-2 (L2)
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The Blockchain Group (ALTBG), a Paris-listed tech firm that brands itself as Europe’s first bitcoin treasury company, said it bought 182 BTC for 17 million euros ($19.6 million), bringing its total stash to 1,653 BTC valued at nearly 149 million euros.The purchase follows a series of convertible bond issuances
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Update, June 18, 8:01 am UTC: This article has been updated to include a section on Gonjeshke Darande.Iran-based cryptocurrency exchange Nobitex has been exploited for over $73 million of digital assets, according to onchain investigator ZachXBT.The attack, disclosed in a Wednesday Telegram post, drained at least $73 million in assets
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