James Rubin

James Rubin was CoinDesk's Co-Managing Editor, Markets team based on the West Coast. He has written and edited for the Milken Institute, TheStreet.com and the Economist Intelligence Unit, among other organizations. He is also the co-author of the Urban Cyclist's Survival Guide. He owns a small amount of bitcoin.

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First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Post-Fed Rate Hike Fizzles. Will BTC's Recent Low Volatility Last Much Longer?

zkSync Era launched only in February but has more daily active addresses than Arbitrum and Optimism, the two largest scaling solutions by total value locked, underscoring the rising interest in its potential airdrop.

Bitcoin monthly chart. (CoinDesk Indices)

Merkado

Bitcoin Remains in Tight Range Around $29.3K; Stellar's XLM Leads Altcoin Gainers

Fresh U.S. economic data Thursday morning delivered good news on inflation and economic growth.

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Merkado

Paradigm Moves $3.5M in MakerDAO's MKR Tokens Following Peer a16z's Maneuver

Fellow venture capital firm a16z over the past week transferred $7 million of its MKR holdings to crypto exchange Coinbase.

Paradigm's MKR transfers (Arkham Intelligence)

Merkado

Bitcoin is Behaving as the Uncorrelated Asset That Some Investors Want, if Only Its Price Would Increase

Bitcoin’s recent decoupling from traditional finance keeps it on the sidelines as other asset prices have surged.

Anne Nygard (Unsplash)

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Italy’s Central Bank Taps Polygon, Fireblocks DeFi Project to Help Institutions Dabble With Tokenized Assets

The initiative aims to help Italian banks, asset managers and financial institutions, including the $1 trillion banking group Intesa Sanpaolo, experiment with decentralized finance and security tokens.

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Merkado

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Awaits Its Spot ETF in Absence of a Macro Catalyst: Crypto CEO

PLUS: At least one bitcoin price indicator suggests that BTC may be turning slightly upward soon, writes a CoinDesk analyst, while Tribe Capital's managing partner sees a DeFi "resurgence."

Bitcoin monthly chart (CoinDesk Indices)

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Bitcoin Steady at $29.3K After Fed Rate Hike and Powell Press Conference

The U.S. central bank as expected lifted its benchmark fed funds rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday afternoon.

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Merkado

Bitcoin Breaks Below Key Technical Indicator, but Appears Poised to Continue Its Flat Trajectory

Wednesday’s Federal Reserve likely decision to raise the interest rate 25 basis points appears to be priced into crypto markets

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Avalanche Foundation Commits $50M to Bring More Tokenized Assets to Blockchain

The program follows Avalanche’s initiative to financial institutions to test blockchain services on one of its subnets.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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First Mover Asia: Bitcoin mantiene su último punto de apoyo en $ 29,1 mil mientras Worldcoin se dispara

ADEMÁS: Las vibraciones positivas de BTC pueden estar disminuyendo a medida que las salidas de productos de inversión de BTC aumentaron por primera vez en semanas. Pero la minería está en mejor estado que hace un año.

Bitcoin daily chart. (CoinDesk Indices)