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Finance

Gemini Hires New CFO as It Prepares for Potential IPO

Crypto exchange Gemini has appointed a new finance chief as it eyes a public offering.

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Markets

Bakkt Shares Drop 35% After Loss of Two Major Customers

The company is also delaying the filing of its annual report.

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Markets

Bitcoin Edges Higher to $84K as Analyst Warns of Another Leg Down for Crypto

A crypto rally to new highs may have to wait until later this year, said Coinbase Institutional's head of research.

Markets

Gold-Backed Tokens Outperform as ‘Bond King’ Gundlach Sees Precious Metal Hitting $4,000

The legendary bond investor believes gold’s rally has room to run as central banks increase holdings.

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Markets

Hashdex Seeks to Expand U.S. Crypto ETF to Include Litecoin, XRP and Other Altcoins

The proposed amendment would include various cryptocurrencies in the in the Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index US ETF.

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Finance

Tokenization Specialists Securitize and Ethena Unveil Institutional DeFi Blockchain

The Converge blockchain is Ethereum compatible and designed to bring DeFi to tokenized real world assets.

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo (left) and Ethena founder Guy Young (Securitize)

Markets

Canary Capital Files for SUI ETF After Reserve Deal With World Liberty Financial

The move comes after World Liberty Financial said it would add Sui assets to its token reserve earlier this month.

Canary Capital founder and CEO Steve McClurg (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Hello, Hoodi: Ethereum Welcomes a New Testnet

Ethereum's 'Pectra' upgrade will be tested on Hoodi following buggy attempts on other testnets, Holesky and Sepolia.

Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum co-founder (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Tech

Sam Altman's World Network and Razer Want to Defeat Gaming's Bot Problem

The teams are releasing “Razer ID verified by World ID,” which is a single sign-on mechanism that will verify real human gamers from bots.

Worldcoin co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman (Marc Olivier/Worldcoin)

Opinion

The U.S. Deserves Better Crypto ETFs. Let's Start With Solana

Limiting access to the chain that launched Trump’s memecoin is like shutting investors out from Amazon or Google during their initial offerings, says Hadley Stern, at Marinade Labs.

Solana Hacker House in Miami (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Developer Consensus May Be Converging on a Bitcoin Soft Fork Proposal: Blockspace

For the first time in more than four years, Bitcoiners are moving forward with changes to the project's underlying software, Blockspace writes.

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Coindesk News

Who Is Satoshi? Benjamin Wallace Goes Down the Rabbit Hole in New Book

“The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto” is a thoughtful new investigation into Bitcoin’s origins.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - SEPTEMBER 22: A statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, a presumed pseudonym used by the inventor of Bitcoin, is displayed in Graphisoft Park on September 22, 2021 in Budapest, Hungary. The statue's creators, Reka Gergely and Tamas Gilly, used anonymized facial features, as Nakamoto's true identify remains unconfirmed. (Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images)

Markets

Robinhood Brings Prediction Market Hub to Market After Success of Crypto-Based Polymarket

The move comes after prediction platform Polymarket rose to fame during the U.S. Presidential election last year, attracting over $3.6 billion in bets.

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Markets

Bitcoin Network Hashrate Inched Higher in March as Mining Economics Weakened: JPMorgan

U.S.-listed miners maintained their share of the network hashrate at around 30%, the report said.

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Markets

Bitcoin, S&P 500 Take Backseat to Stagflation Trade as Trump Tariffs Threaten to Derail Growth

Goldman's stagflation basket has surged nearly 20% this year, outperforming bitcoin, U.S. stocks, and even gold.

Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation (Maria Lin Kim/Unsplash)

Markets

Ether in Structural Decline, Year-End Price Target Slashed to $4K: Standard Chartered

Layer 2 blockchains were meant to improve scalability on the Ethereum network, but Coinbase's Base has reduced ether's market cap by $50 billion, the report said.

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