With bitcoin holding above $80,000 and stocks pushing to fresh record highs, risk appetite spilled deeper into crypto markets Friday, lifting altcoins and blockchain infrastructure plays. Solana (SOL), Chainlink LINK$9.8379, SUI$1.0255 and DOT$1.3159 rose around 5%, while Near Protocol (NEAR) and Uniswap (UNI) gained roughly… Read More
XRP keeps grinding toward the top of its recent range, and the move is starting to matter more because liquidity has thinned out while price keeps compressing underneath resistance. That combination tends to make breakouts sharper once the market finally picks a direction. News Background… Read More
Institutional investors have increasingly gained exposure to bitcoin BTC$79,512.22 and other major tokens through ETFs and centralized exchanges. However, they have largely stayed away from decentralized exchanges (DEXes) offering perpetual (perp) futures tied to crypto and tradfi assets, panelists said at Consensus Miami, citing security… Read More
The crypto market dropped back on Thursday with bitcoin BTC$80,840.60 losing around 0.7% since midnight UTC following Wednesday’s rally to a three-month high of $82,800. Ether lost around 1% during Asia and European hours, now trading at $2,325 having briefly topped $2,420 on Wednesday. The… Read More
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 2210.86, up 2.5% (+53.36) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. All 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: NEAR (+16.0%)… Read More
Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest publicly traded corporate holder of bitcoin, floated the idea of selling bitcoin in order to cover its dividend obligations. Executive Chairman Michael Saylor suggested, during its Q1 2026 earnings call, the company may sell a portion of its bitcoin holdings… Read More
