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CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: AAVE Gains 6.9% as Index Trades Higher From Tuesday

Litecoin (LTC) joined Aave (AAVE) as a top performer, rising 3.7%.

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Bitcoin Drops Below Key 2025 Realized Price Level, Raising Risk of Further Downside: Van Straten

Over 2.6 million bitcoin in supply are currently at a loss, one of the highest levels this year.

BTC: Exchange Average Withdrawal Price (by Year) (Glassnode)

Policy

Ransomware Payments Fell 35% in 2024 as More Victims Refuse to Pay: Chainalysis

According to the blockchain analytics firm, less than half of recorded ransomware attacks resulted in victim payments.

Hacker (Getty Images/Seksan Mongkhonkhamsao)

Markets

Bitcoin-Gold Ratio at 12-Week Low as U.S. Physical Gold Deliveries Soar

Traders have been loading the yellow metal on U.S.-bound planes. Investment banking giant JPMorgan plans to deliver $4 billion of gold to New York this month.

BTC-Gold ratio looks south. (TradingView/CoinDesk)

Markets

U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF Inflows Surge 175% Year-Over-Year

Total net inflows for U.S. bitcoin-listed ETFs have seen over $40.6 billion.

Exchange-traded fund (viarami/Pixabay)

Markets

Bullish Global Weighs IPO as Early as This Year Amid Crypto Market Optimism: Bloomberg

The crypto exchange whose parent company is backed by Peter Thiel revived its public listing plans shelved in 2022.

Peter Thiel holding cash (Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Markets

XRP Ledger ‘Self-Healed’ After Brief Downtime

“One possible failure mode for XRPL is if all the validators think something's wrong with the network, all refuse to send any validations,” the Ripple CTO explained.

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Finance

Blockstream Opens New Office in Tokyo as It Expands in Asia

The company plans to drive Japanese adoption of Bitcoin Layer-2 and self-custody technologies.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus 2019. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Equities-Crypto Relationship Is Likely to Weaken in the Long Term, Citi Says

The correlation between bitcoin and the stock market is expected to weaken as the adoption of digital assets grows, the report said.

Crypto market to stay highly correlated to stocks, Citi says. (Miquel Parera/Unsplash)

Markets

Ondo Finance Unveils Tokenization Platform to Bring Stocks, Bonds, and ETFs Onchain

Ondo takes steps to accelerate the onboarding of traditional assets to the blockchain rails.

Ondo introduce new platform to tokenize stocks, bonds and ETFs. (geralt/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Network Hashrate Growth Was Muted in January: JPMorgan

Mining difficulty fell 2% from the previous month, which is relatively uncommon, the report said.

JPMorgan (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin Risks Losing the $90K- $110K Range as These 3 Developments Could Put the Brakes on the Next Bull Breakout

BTC looks heavy as critical sources of fiat liquidity begin to tighten, Trump administration goes slow on creation on strategic BTC reserve and charts point to weakening upward momentum.

Bear and bull (Pixabay)

Markets

Bitdeer Buys 101 MW Gas Power Plant in Alberta, Canada for BTC Mining

The $21.7 million cash deal would give BitDeer the ability to mine BTC at some of the lowest costs in the industry.

A farmer's field in Alberta, Canada (Priscilla Du Preez/Unsplash)

Policy

Regulation By Enforcement Is Out at CFTC, Acting Chair Pham Says

The CFTC’s Division of Enforcement is being reorganized to “refocus” on fraud prevention.

Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Extends Losses to Below $97K Following David Sacks Press Conference

It was mostly a wonky discussion from Sacks and four Senate/House committee chairs.

Bitcoin plunges below $40K (Eva Blue/Unsplash)