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Most stablecoins look identical on a surface. The difference is what's behind them, and that's exactly why some broke their peg while others didn't.
The attacker netted under $1M, but the mechanism (an unguarded oracle write with no liquidation delay) is the real warning for every BTC-collateralized lending book.
Stand With Crypto events in 500+ cities underscore a political mobilisation play — but a CoinDesk poll showing 1% of US voters rank crypto as a top concern complicates the pitch.
Every name in the basket is red, with UNI (-2.9%) and AAVE (-2.6%) leading the slide and even ETH and SUI — the day's "leaders" — down 0.6% apiece.
Meme coins are built on jokes and hype, not utility — and they're one of crypto's riskiest corners. Here's how they work and why caution is essential.
A coin is the native money of a blockchain; a token is an asset that lives on top of one. The distinction is small but it shapes risk, fees and behaviour.
Attention is rotating off bleeding BTC and onto tokenization, stablecoins and AI infra. The trade isn't which coin, it's which plumbing.
Stablecoins are the dollars of the crypto world — designed to hold steady value while moving at crypto speed. Here's how they work and where the risks hide.
From a US CBDC ban to Circle's national trust charter and UK stablecoin easing, the plumbing of institutional crypto is hardening fast, while price still dithers.
Most retail holders cannot redeem stablecoins directly with the issuer. The dollar price works only above minimums, and the rules vary by token, jurisdiction, and bank partner.
BTC slides under $63K as KOSPI craters and longs get liquidated, yet ICE-OKX and a flood of stablecoin rails keep the institutional bid very much alive.
Circle's empire takes a direct hit from BlackRock, Visa, and Stripe just as Bitcoin caps its worst month since 2022. The tape read it as regime change.
The crypto basis trade borrows billions to bet on convergence between spot and futures. When that bet unwinds, it can liquidate billions in hours and drag BTC and ETH down with it.
Roughly 9 in 10 new AI-themed tokens lose most of their value within weeks. Here are the on-chain and social patterns that separate signal from noise.
Treasury unwind, miner bankruptcies, and a $225M ETF reversal meet bullish Deribit bets — a market being repositioned, not panicked.
Coins run a blockchain, fungible tokens sit on one, and NFTs hold unique data. Fungibility, not the standard, is the property that splits them apart.
A $696M ETF outflow, a sticky 3.4% PCE and an $8B cash wall at Strategy sit on top of a chain quietly routing BTC and ETH onto exchanges.
Backed 1:1 sounds reassuring. But tokenized gold is a chain of claims, not a bar in your hand, and the failure modes live in the seams.
Curve is the decentralized exchange built for assets that should trade close to each other — stablecoins and pegged assets — with tiny slippage and concentrated fees.
A crypto bull market feels like everyone's getting rich — which is exactly when caution matters most. Here's what bull markets are and how to keep your head.
CoinDesk
Sofia Almeida
Lina Haddad
Ethan Brooks
Marco De Santis