Decentralised exchanges, lending, yield and dollar tokens.
A regulatory filing from OKXICE, a joint venture between OKX and NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange, listed more than 60 securities it plans to offer in tokenized form and explained how the new market would work
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, withdrew the rule Sunday along with a separate proposal targeting transactions involving crypto mixers. Neither had ever taken effect
HYPE bucked the drop with a 3% gain to about $94. BNB was the laggard, down 2.5%, while ether, XRP, SOL and DOGE each fell between 1% and 2%. ZEC and TRX were flat, according to CoinDesk data. Outside the majors, ADA jumped 11%, GRT gained 7% and NEAR rose nearly 7%
Leading the gains is BTW, the native token of Bitway, a bitcoin-compatible layer-1 blockchain with proof-of-stake consensus and decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure. The token has jumped 25% in the past 24 hours and is up 170% over the past 30 days
USDG has launched on Arbitrum on Tuesday with integrations spanning trading, lending and payments, including Fluid, Morpho, GMX, Maple, Li.Fi, Gauntlet, Steakhouse, LayerZero and Kraken. Uniswap and Fhenix are set to follow
Pantera Capital, Theta Blockchain Ventures, Bullish and Protoscale Capital also participated in the purchase of ANVL tokens, according to a Monday announcement. The terms and valuation of the transaction were not disclosed. Anvil told CoinDesk the tokens came from its existing treasury rather than being newly issued
Kebrat explained that the decision to add BTC to the balance sheet represents how deeply we care about bitcoin and the ecosystem
The damage grew heavier further down the market, as the CoinDesk 80, which tracks a wide basket of smaller tokens, lost nearly 4% over the past 24 hours, against 2.5% for the CoinDesk 5. DeFi tokens fell almost 6% while the Memecoin Index tumbled by around 5%. Only a handful of tokens including SAND, PUMP and STX have managed to rise since midnight UTC
Bitcoin BTC$82,800.62 and the other majors are lower today, but zoom out and the picture is flatter than the daily tape suggests: prices have gone essentially nowhere over the past two weeks
Bitcoin reached a monthly high of $87,500 in September before trading sideways and subsequently retreating below $84,000 as of Wednesday
The business, dubbed Hare, is being built alongside liquidity distribution platform Turtle and will create and manage onchain vaults. GSR's multi-year commitment will mostly take the form of a credit facility, with its capital going into Hare's products as anchor liquidity before outside investors arrive
The National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK), Tether and the Alatau City Authority signed a memorandum of understanding to study stablecoins, asset tokenization and decentralized finance, the parties said Wednesday in a press release
Open Money Stack is targeting businesses that might want to use TRON for digital-dollar services without the requirement to combine banking access, wallets and other orchestration first, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal told CoinDesk
Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, is in talks to become a crypto liquidity provider to U.S. financial giant Wells Fargo (WFC), according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter
XRP led the losses among the majors, down nearly 4% to about $1.42. DOGE slid 3% to just under 9 cents and ether lost 3% to about $2,570. HYPE and SOL each fell more than 2%, and ZEC slipped less than 1%. BNB and TRX were the only gainers, each up less than 1%, according to CoinDesk data
Loans taken by locking up bitcoin BTC$82,800.62 as collateral are increasingly used to fund real-world expenses such as tuition fees, slow months, and business cash, according to two long-standing lenders
Gains of up to 500 euros ($560) a year would be exempt under the bill, which will be submitted to parliament in November
The service, which remains subject to applicable regulatory requirements, would be available to institutional clients and accredited investor corporate clients, the bank said Thursday. It would sit within Standard Chartered’s financing and securities-services business rather than operate as a retail crypto product
The token, called HOME, gives holders exposure to a pooled investment vehicle that will initially hold home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) originated through Figure Technology Solutions. NUVA is targeting a 7% annual return from the loans, with the target resetting monthly. Interest income and loan performance are reflected in the vault’s net asset value, which in turn determines the token's price
Cointelegraph says it is “not for sale” after CoinDesk reports the crypto news outlet is seeking a buyer
Digital assets rebounded sharply in the third quarter of 2026, ending three consecutive quarters of losses and delivering their strongest performance of the year. As presented in CoinDesk’s latest Quarterly Review and Outlook, the recovery was shaped by easing geopolitical pressure, a more constructive liquidity backdrop and the return of institutional flows
The coins left a wallet holding funds seized in the 2016 Bitfinex hack and went to a new, unlabeled address, with a second transaction going to a different address. No exchange deposit was recorded, a pattern more consistent with wallet reshuffling than a sale
In a 79-page report titled Breaking the Wall, published Thursday, the research firm argued that bringing stocks, bonds and other financial assets onto blockchains could create new businesses in trading, lending and payments
Blumenthal sent a letter Thursday to Cantor's CEO, Brandon Lutnick, the son of President Donald Trump's Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who handed the company reins to his son when he joined the administration. Blumenthal has been scrutinizing Tether's role in Iran's financial system, and he flagged the lucrative business connection between the issuer of USDT and the firm that handles its U.S. reserves, Cantor
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