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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.
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.
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.
Attention is rotating off bleeding BTC and onto tokenization, stablecoins and AI infra. The trade isn't which coin, it's which plumbing.
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.
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.
BTC slides under $60K and ETFs bleed a record $6.4B, yet M&A runs 26x higher and Coinbase keeps shopping. The crowd and the money are reading two different markets.
USDe pays double-digit yield by going long spot crypto and shorting the same coin's perpetual futures. It works — until funding flips negative.
USDC, USDT and PYUSD all promise $1 redemption in their marketing. The fine print, minimums, and fees tell a different story.
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.
A new crypto bull market does not announce itself. It builds quietly while most people still believe the bear. Here are the signals that have actually marked the start — and the loud ones that mark the top.
Eleven working days in Washington, $430 billion in Abu Dhabi, and a regulator in Seoul. Crypto's jurisdictional race just compressed into a single week.
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.
A meme-coin governance heist drains $20M the same hour Washington declares it is taking over crypto. The crowd is split, and that split is the signal.
Crowd narrative is rotating from retail froth into real-world rails as oil, China data and a $500B drawdown test the tape.
Roughly $2.6 billion of crypto trading volume in 2024 was flagged as artificial, and small tokens lose the most. Here is the five-number checklist to catch wash trades yourself.
Bitcoin sits near $64K while a $38M wallet exploit, a fading CLARITY Act, and a stubborn Fed crowd out every bullish headline.
PEPE, BONK, FLOKI, and PENGU share a meme label but very different supply schedules, launch methods, and centralization risks. Here is the honest structural breakdown.
Crypto arbitrage profits from price differences across venues. Here is how it works, why it is so competitive, and where retail traders usually lose.
Morgan Stanley's staking ETP launch lands on the same day the CLARITY Act hits a Senate wall, and the tape is forced to choose which story matters more.
CoinDesk
Sofia Almeida
Lina Haddad
Ethan Brooks