Wall Street Heavyweights Back Builder of Canton, a Network That Supports $6T Onchain Assets
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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 […]

ING Flags Upside Potential in 10-Year Treasury Yield
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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 Activates Fusaka Upgrade, Aiming to Cut Node Costs, Speed Layer-2 Settlements
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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 Authorities Say Island’s First Regulated Stablecoin Will Launch Next Year
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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 […]

BTC Dipped Below ‘Fair Value’ for First Time in 2 Years, History Says 132% Gains Next 12 Months
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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 […]

Anthropic Research Shows AI Agents Closing In on Real DeFi Attack Capability
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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 […]

Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) Manages Big Bounce After Early Monday Plunge
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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 […]

Japan to Cut Crypto Tax Burden With Planned 20% Uniform Rate in Boost for Local BTC Traders
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Japan is preparing to overhaul how it taxes cryptocurrency gains, moving toward a flat 20% levy that would bring digital assets in line with equities and investment trusts, per Nikkei. The shift marks the country’s most significant policy update for the sector in years and reflects a growing view among regulators that crypto has matured […]

Bitcoin Becomes Méliuz’s ‘Escape Hatch’ From Brazil’s 22% Rates
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When Brazilian fintech firm Méliuz (CASH3) reviewed its balance sheet in late 2024, it found something startling: it was profitable, debt-free, and growing, yet the market had valued its business at zero. “If you excluded the cash on hand,” Diego Kolling, Head of Bitcoin Strategy at Méliuz, told CoinDesk at the Blockchain Conference Brasil 2025. […]

Meet Denis Dariotis, the Billion-Dollar GoQuant Founder Who Started Trading at 9 Years Old
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Denis Dariotis, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of cryptocurrency-focused trading software firm GoQuant, remembers the constraints and pressures of maximizing his trading portfolio while he was still in the third grade at school. “I remember telling my teachers I had to take 10 minutes out of class to check my portfolio when the market opened […]

Bitcoin ETFs Are Now BlackRock’s Top Revenue Source, Exec Says 

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BlackRock’s bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have become the firm’s most profitable product line, according to Cristiano Castro, director of business development at BlackRock Brazil. The figure is notable given that the firm manages over 1,400 ETFs globally and is the world’s largest asset manager with more than $13.4 trillion in assets under management. Speaking at […]

TON Rallies 8% as Telegram Ecosystem Expands With AI Launch, Tokenized Stocks
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TON, the native token of the Telegram-affiliated blockchain, surged 8.33% to $1.60 in the last 24 hours, driven by a mix of ecosystem milestones and growing support. The move propelled TON to break past the $1.60 mark, driven by rising volume and renewed market momentum, while outperforming the broader crypto market. Based on the performance […]