Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights: Digital assets snapped a three-quarter losing streak in the third quarter of 2026, delivering their strongest performance of the year. The CoinDesk 20 (CD20) advanced 52.7% to 2,447, while Bitcoin rallied 42.7% to reach $83,554. Cryptocurrency returns substantially outperformed traditional financial assets, outpacing the S&P 500, the Nasdaq, and gold. Digital Assets Rebound ...
Key Highlights: The Cardano Foundation has spun off its digital identity project, Veridian, into an independent Swiss-based enterprise. Veridian has become the first operating company to tokenize its equity on Cardano utilizing the newly unveiled CIP-0113 programmable-token standard. Led by former Cardano Foundation engineer Thomas A. Mayfield, the venture plans to pursue strategic investment rounds ...
Key Highlights: More than 6 million Bitcoin—accounting for 31.2% of the circulating supply—currently sit behind exposed public keys onchain. Major platforms display vastly different exposure rates: Binance holds 83% of its Bitcoin behind visible public keys, while Coinbase sits at 10% and Fidelity at just 2%. The vulnerability risk has intensified following warnings from Ethereum ...
Key Highlights: Ripple Prime is generating revenue by financing leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs), charging fees on financial contracts provided to fund managers. A Wall Street Journal report highlighted that Ripple backed the Tradr 2X Long SNDK Daily ETF, which paid the company an annual rate of roughly 8%. Beyond ETF financing, Ripple has deepened its ...
Key Highlights: Soda Labs secures fresh funding to scale its privacy architecture, which utilizes garbled-circuit Multi-Party Computation running on standard cloud CPUs. The firm’s infrastructure has processed over 100 million transactions and participated in institutional trials via the European Central Bank’s Pioneer programme. Capital will support the multi-chain rollout of Soda Bubble across Ethereum, Polygon, ...
Key Highlights: Securitize has officially introduced an onchain trading platform offering tokenized U.S. stocks backed 1:1 by underlying shares. Initial offerings feature major equities such as Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Tesla, and Amazon, trading on the Solana blockchain and settling in USDC. Tokens represent legal security entitlements under UCC Article 8, preserving critical shareholder benefits such ...
Key Highlights: BTC.top founder Jiang Zhuoer has repurchased 75% of his previously sold Bitcoin holdings, anticipating a short-term market recovery. High-leverage whale activity has surged, highlighted by a $33.13 million Bitcoin short, a $26.5 million multi-asset short basket, and an ancient wallet moving 100.02 BTC after 16.2 years. Notorious trader AguilaTrades reemerged after a six-month ...
Key Highlights: Tempo, an emerging Layer-1 blockchain tailored for stablecoin finance, currently exhibits absent trading volume, reflecting early-stage market dynamics or limited liquidity. Backed by strategic ties with payment giant Stripe and venture firm Paradigm, the network is built to provide robust infrastructure for digital currency transactions. Rising stablecoin adoption across the broader cryptocurrency sector ...
Key Highlights Starknet could achieve quantum resistance as early as 2027, outpacing Ethereum’s current target of 2029. StarkWare co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson highlighted that Bitcoin has yet to establish a comparable quantum-safety timeline. ZK-STARK proofs, cryptographic agility, and AI-driven mathematical advancements are critical drivers accelerating post-quantum blockchain upgrades. Starknet Targets Post-Quantum Security Ahead of Ethereum and ...
Key Highlights A dormant stash of approximately 100 bitcoin mined in July 2010 moved for the first time in nearly 16 years. While the wallet address had executed other transactions between 2011 and 2018, the specific 100.02 BTC UTXO remained untouched until Wednesday. Blockchain records do not confirm a sale, and the transfer remains significantly ...
Key Highlights OpenAI has released 722 mathematical manuscripts generated by an unreleased model tested on approximately 4,000 research problems, reigniting scrutiny over cryptographic security. While theoretical vulnerabilities could expose wallets whose public keys are visible onchain across Bitcoin and Ethereum, no practical attacks have been demonstrated or identified in the research reviewed by CoinDesk. The ...
Key Highlights: Algorand ($ALGO) is testing intraday gains above daily R1 resistance at $0.1237, though the previous daily candle concluded lower at $0.1188 without confirmed closure. Short-term timeframes signal overextended momentum, with the 15-minute RSI reaching 77.0 even as higher-timeframe MACD and RSI indicators show declining daily momentum. Decentralized exchange volume across the Algorand blockchain ...