NEAR Tops CoinDesk 20 With 6.3% Surge as ICP Trails
Seventeen of twenty constituents traded up in the session, with NEAR and ICP setting the pace while BNB and CRO dragged the index's overall gain to a flat 0.1%.
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Seventeen of twenty constituents traded up in the session, with NEAR and ICP setting the pace while BNB and CRO dragged the index's overall gain to a flat 0.1%.
The world's largest wealth manager, sitting on $5.7T in assets, just added XRP to its disclosed book — the signal is less the size than who's holding it.
A hot print against 62K expectations gives the new Fed chair an inflation-elevated, oil-energized backdrop on day one — and risk assets read it as a hawkish hold, not a soft landing.
The drive needed 100,000 signatures in three years and pulled roughly half. The SNB's pre-emptive rejection framed crypto as too volatile and illiquid to qualify.
Trump's 25% auto-tariff threat and a stalled US-EU trilogue collide with sticky core PCE and a Fed that has no reason to cut — a macro stack that historically pulls BTC with risk assets.
222M $USDT (≈222M) moved from #Ethena to unknown wallet.
250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
646 $BTC (≈51.9M) moved from Coinbase Institutional to unknown wallet.
The 6th weekly gain is now in jeopardy after a geopolitics-led risk-off pull, while Saylor's threat to liquidate BTC reserves to pay dividends raises fresh questions about MSTR's treasury model.
The multi-zone AWS failure is the proximate cause, but the outage lands on a quarter already defined by a $1.49 per-share loss, 14% layoffs, and a fifth straight year of public-facing downtime.
Bitmine's 4.3% stake, $61M of ETF inflows and exchange reserves at a 2016 low point to the same story: structural supply removal, not speculative demand.
A weaker April payrolls print would reinforce the Fed-on-hold narrative and clear the path for risk assets; the swing factor is whether average hourly earnings come in hot at a 3.8% forecast, keeping…
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The letter's real weight is the scale question: if a third-party stablecoin suddenly reaches Meta's 3.5 billion users, the issuer's risk controls, not the integration, become the regulatory…
Six positions, $16.7M deployed across trending perps — the breadth across AI-adjacent L1s, privacy, and an L2 bet is what stands out, not any single leg.
A $394M net loss, a 5-hour AWS-linked outage, and a $300B Artemis bull case collide in one quarter — Coinbase's transition story just got harder to underwrite.
ARK's CEO tells CZ the venue was cleared of triggering the $28B deleveraging event — the blame shifts to a software glitch, but the venue remains the same.
South Korea's largest exchange adding a fresh Layer 1 with EVM compatibility is a meaningful liquidity door for retail KRW flow, not just another listing.
The trigger was geopolitical, not structural — but the unwind exposes how leveraged the recent rally had become, with DeFi tokens the only pocket holding green.
MegaETH's headline number tripled since the token generation event — yet almost all of it is borrowed Aave liquidity rather than native protocol deposits, a structural fragility most readers will…