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FIFA wanted Avalanche's blockchain to help curb World Cup ticket scalping. Here's how it's going
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s tech newsletter covering the most important stories in blockchain. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk.
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Mexican billionaire with 70% of his investment portfolio in bitcoin says it's better than real estate
Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, whose net worth is estimated at roughly $5 billion, is a bitcoin maximalist.
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BitGo stock surges on $50 million share buyback as value languishes 65% below IPO price
Crypto infrastructure provider BitGo's (BTGO) shares jumped as much as 20% on Wednesday after the company announced a $50 million share buyback program to support a stock that has struggled since its public debut earlie…
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CoinDesk 20 performance update: Bitcoin Cash (BCH) drops 3.1%, leading index lower
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
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Crypto Long & Short: The measure of a maturing market
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Kevin Warsh's first Fed meeting could be more about communication than rates
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is heading the central bank's two-day policy meeting, concluding this afternoon, with investors looking beyond the interest-rate decision itself for clues about how he plans to reshape …
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Crypto’s security nightmare won’t be solved by ordinary audits
The crypto sector has been plagued by cybersecurity issues for years. Malicious actors, particularly North Korea’s Lazarus Group, have stolen more than $2.2 billion since 2022, prompting the industry to triple its numbe…
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Moody’s rolls out credit ratings on Solana in tokenized asset push
Moody's Ratings is rolling out its credit ratings to Solana (SOL), allowing issuers of tokenized bonds and other fixed-income securities to embed the firm's assessments directly into blockchain-based assets.
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A new Bittensor proposal would turn validators into something like fund managers
A new proposal for Bittensor, the decentralized AI network behind the TAO token, would change how the network pays its validators and turn them into something closer to fund managers.
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SpaceX's $2.6 trillion market cap nearly double that of bitcoin
SpaceX (SPCX) has climbed more than 40% since its June 12 debut to a roughly $2.5 trillion market value, making it the sixth-largest company in the world and worth nearly twice the entire bitcoin market.
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UNI token surges while rest of crypto market looks to Fed's Warsh for guidance
The largest cryptocurrency pulled back below $65,000 after trading near $67,000 just a day earlier, CoinDesk data show. The broader market CoinDesk 20 Index (CD200) has lost 1.2% since midnight UTC, with all but four to…
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Three Fed signals that could make bitcoin pop
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Bitcoin's June downturn leaves $8.6 billion in options out of the money
That amount is roughly 80% of the $10.6 billion worth of options expiring on June 26, according to data source Deribit. These dollar figures represent notional open interest, or the dollar value of the number of active …
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Heir to 135-year Gulf dynasty is moving a $6 trillion trade market onto blockchain rails
For more than 135 years, the Kanoo family, one of Bahrain's wealthiest families, has helped build the Gulf’s entire commercial infrastructure.
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Forget retail traders: The real multi-trillion-dollar crypto future is building infrastructure for machines
With 60% of stablecoin payments flowing through a fragmented Asian corridor, new backend middleware lets autonomous software move capital without human steps.
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Crypto PAC's $12 million Senate candidate, Barry Moore, wins Alabama GOP primary
More than any other congressional race this year, the crypto sector's campaign-funding operations dumped massive cash into Barry Moore's Alabama Senate bid, with the leading political action committee alone spending mor…
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Live markets: A bitcoin bottom signal flashed as holders absorbed 125,000 BTC in June
Bitcoin's risk-adjusted return has fallen to a level that has marked every bear-market bottom of the past decade, the latest on-chain reading to point toward accumulation rather than more downside.
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Uniswap jumps 22% and altcoins rip while bitcoin stalls before the Fed
Bitcoin is trading flat while the rest of the crypto market showing signs of a capital rotation.
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XRP gives back breakout gains, slipping below $1.23 on heavy selling
XRP's push above $1.25 lasted only a few hours. Sellers showed up near the highs and drove the token back through $1.23 on some of the session's heaviest volume, turning what looked like a breakout into a reminder that …
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Forget the price charts. Here's how bitcoin and S&P 500 look like when adjusted for the money printer
If you're only looking at the dollar price of your portfolio, you may be missing part of the picture, which is significantly shaped by money supply growth.
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Bitcoin miners' AI pivot faces $50 billion reality check, says VanEck
Bitcoin miners that have spent the past two years reinventing themselves as AI infrastructure providers may be entering a more difficult phase of their transformation: proving they can actually deliver.
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Here is why Strategy's dividend-paying crypto stock is crashing to near-historic lows
Strategy's (MSTR) dividend-paying preferred stock, STRC, closed at $91.79 on Tuesday, its third-lowest since trading began in July 2025, amid lower bitcoin prices and debt concerns.
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Hyperliquid, Uniswap and Worldcoin buck crypto slump as traders chase AI, DeFi trends
Hyperliquid's HYPE, Uniswap's UNI and Worldcoin's WLD all posted double-digit gains, extending rallies that have made them some of this week's standout performers.
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U.S. senators urge Treasury not to leave states out of GENIUS Act stablecoin process
State regulators got sidelined in the U.S. Department of the Treasury's effort to implement the new U.S. stablecoin law, according to several senators from both parties who insist that the states need to be given an exp…