CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2800.9, up 1.3% (+34.92) since 4 p.m. ET on Friday. Nine of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: XRP (+5.8%) and SUI (+5.2%). Laggards: BCH (-6.2%) and UNI (-4.8%)….
TL;DR PENGU briefly entered the top 100 cryptocurrencies club with a market cap of just south of $900 million. Over the past week, it outperformed the leading meme coins, Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB), which are also well in the green. Rising Through the Ranks The meme coin sector is notorious for its enhanced…
Wallet interoperability still remains the vision for Web3 gaming, according to Arthur Madrid, the co-founder and CEO of the decentralized metaverse and gaming platform The Sandbox. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph at the Crypto Polo event in Dubai, Madrid and The Sandbox co-founder and chief operating officer Sebastien Borget told Cointelegraph that Web3 gaming…
[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, Dubai, April 28th, 2025] The global crypto exchange BYDFi has announced its official sponsorship of the TOKEN2049 conference in Dubai. At this event, BYDFi will showcase its on-chain trading tool, MoonX, marking its second international appearance after its debut at Paris Blockchain Week (PBW). This move signifies BYDFi’s formal expansion into…
By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin (BTC) was little changed Monday, adding less than 1% amid renewed trade tensions and concerns of geopolitical instability that spread into the Indian subcontinent, where India and Pakistan are exchanging small-arms fire. The cryptocurrency rose 0.75% in the past 24 hours, turning positive for the…
Chart technician “Charting Guy” told his audience that XRP’s current four-hour structure suggests a measured climb toward a cycle peak near $8—yet nothing higher. Displaying a BITSTAMP four-hour chart overlaid with multi-sigma deviation bands, he wrote that XRP is “over this standard deviation and we likely move up quickly to the next one at the…
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto project backed by the Donald Trump family, is accelerating its international expansion plans amid meetings with industry expert Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of Binance. On April 27, WLFI founders Zach Witkoff, Zak Folkman, and Chase Hero held a high-profile meeting with Zhao in Abu Dhabi. According…
Plaintiffs accuse Nike of promoting unregistered securities. NFTs linked to RTFKT fell from $8,000 to $16 after closure. Lawsuit highlights legal uncertainty around NFTs as securities. Nike is facing a $5 million class-action lawsuit that claims the company misled investors by promoting non-fungible tokens (NFTs) tied to its RTFKT platform before abruptly shutting it down….
Strategy (MSTR) added another 15,355 BTC to its balance sheet over the past week, spending about $1.42 billion on the purchase, or an average price of $92,737 per bitcoin, according to a filing published on Monday. The company’s bitcoin holdings have now risen to 553,555 BTC worth more than $52 billion at bitcoin’s current price…
Coinbase, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is launching the Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund on May 1, aiming to offer Bitcoin (BTC) exposure for institutional investors outside the US. The fund targets an annual net return of 4% to 8% on Bitcoin holdings, according to an April 28 blog post by Coinbase. “To address…