With the Bank of Japan (BOJ) expected to hike rates next week, some observers are worried that the Japanese yen could surge, triggering an unwinding of “carry trades,” crushing bitcoin. Their analysis, however, overlooks actual positioning in the FX and bond markets, missing the nuance and far more likely risk that Japanese yields, by anchoring […]
Major French banking group BPCE is set to start offering crypto trading services to retail customers through its Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Épargne apps starting Monday. Customers of four regional banks, including Banque Populaire Île-de-France and Caisse d’Épargne Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, will be able to buy and sell bitcoin BTC$89,682.35, ether ETH$3,034.52, solana SOL$132.42, and USDC […]
The Bank of Japan is preparing to raise interest rates at its December policy meeting, a shift that would lift the country’s benchmark rate to its highest level since 1995 and potentially reverberate through global risk markets, including crypto. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that policymakers are leaning toward a 25-basis-point hike to […]
Amid an intensifying international focus on stablecoins, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released a 56-page report detailing what it sees as the key risks surrounding their adoption. The report draws parallels from the claims many other central banks and international financial organizations make regarding the threat stablecoins represent to governmental monetary control, to ultimately […]
Kraken, the cryptocurrency exchange preparing to go public in the U.S. early next year, has unveiled an invitation-only VIP program tailored to ultra high net worth individuals, sophisticated traders and strategic capital allocators, the company said. Crypto exchanges are looking to fill the gap when it comes to providing high-touch services to wealthy individuals, family […]
Digital Asset, the blockchain firm behind the Canton Network (CC), said Thursday that it has secured strategic investments from four major traditional financial players, as Wall Street’s crypto embrace continues. The investors in this round were BNY, a financial services firm overseeing $57 trillion in client assets, exchange operator Nasdaq, financial intelligence firm S&P Global […]
In a piece of bad news for crypto bulls, analysts at Dutch bank ING highlighted the breakout potential in the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, currently 4.09%, consistent with CoinDesk’s outlook. The yield has shown resilience, holding above 4% despite several soft economic readings, including Wednesday’s negative ADP employment report for November, which marked the third […]
Ethereum activated its highly anticipated “Fusaka” upgrade on Wednesday, marking the blockchain’s second major code change of 2025. The update is designed to help Ethereum handle the increasingly large transaction batches coming from the layer-2 networks that settle on top of it. The Fusaka upgrade, also sometimes called a “hard fork”, was triggered at 21:49 […]
Taiwan could see its first locally issued stablecoin go live in the second half of 2026, though regulators have not yet decided on the currency the token will be tied to. Local media in Taiwan report Financial Supervisory Commission Chair Peng Jin-long told lawmakers this week that the draft Virtual Assets Service Act has cleared […]
Bitcoin BTC$91,656.82 briefly slipped below its network value based on Metcalfe value modeling for the first time in nearly two years, according to network economist Timothy Peterson. This is typically a signal that often marks the late stages of market resets, he said. “While this does not necessarily signal a bottom, it does indicate that […]
AI agents are getting good enough at finding attack vectors in smart contracts that they can already be weaponized by bad actors, according to new research published by the Anthropic Fellows program. A study by the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program (MATS) and the Anthropic Fellows program tested frontier models against SCONE-bench, a dataset […]
An overnight crash in the price of bitcoin combined with a difficult to digest capital raise to send Strategy (MSTR) shares tumbling 12.5% to their weakest level in nearly 15 months in U.S. morning trading on Monday. And yet, despite no bounce in the price of bitcoin BTC$86,378.70 — which remained near session lows of about […]