Portofino Technologies, a Switzerland-based crypto market making firm, has big plans for 2025, the company’s CEO Leonard Lancia told CoinDesk in an exclusive interview. The crypto market maker is exploring opening new offices in both New York and Singapore, Lancia said. The firm is regulated in the U.K., Switzerland and the British Virgin Islands, and … Read more
Many in the crypto community believed that US President Donald Trump’s second-term election would send Bitcoin prices skyrocketing, and it did — from $69,374 on Election Day (Nov. 5) to a record $108,786 when the new administration took office on Jan. 20. But since that time, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) has mostly fallen, dropping … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) stayed volatile at the March 4 Wall Street open as weak crypto markets weighed the impact of US trade tariffs. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Bitcoin edges closer to multimonth lows Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed new local lows of $82,037 for BTC/USD on Bitstamp. A rebound then took the … Read more
Today, THNDR, pioneers in play-to-earn (P2E) Bitcoin games as well as skill-based peer-to-peer (PvP) gaming solutions, announced the release of its latest title, Blackjack. Designed for iGaming operators and aggregators, the game is now available via THNDR’s B2B PvP platform. With this new game, THNDR aims to improve player engagement and retention, while employing cutting-edge … Read more
Opinion by: Dr. Michael Tabone, senior economist for Cointelegraph Bitcoin (BTC) mining has long been dominated by large-scale industrial operations, with public companies like Marathon Digital, CleanSpark and Riot Platforms controlling significant portions of the global hashrate. But what if that balance of power shifted? What if millions of individuals across industrialized nations took up … Read more
An ether (ETH) position worth more than $126 million came within 4% of being liquidated amid a crypto market plunge on Tuesday. ETH has now retraced more than the entirety of Sunday’s rally, shedding 22% of its value in the past 48 hours as it trades at $2,080. A fortuitous bounce at $2,000 protected Ethereum’s … Read more
As if the bursting of a speculative bubble in memecoins wasn’t enough to send crypto markets tumbling over the past weeks, a general risk off sentiment in traditional finance is adding to the pressure. Perhaps in a bit of a speculative bubble themselves, the major U.S. stock market averages have been in quick retreat of … Read more
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 2684.39, down 3.9% (-109.08) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. Two of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: HBAR (+4.2%) and AAVE (+1.3%). Laggards: SUI (-11.0%) and DOT (-8.2%). … Read more
SSV Network proposed a new permissionless staking module for Lido, aiming to improve decentralization and staking infrastructure for institutional participants. SSV Network proposed a permissionless staking module that leverages SSV’s Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) to integrate node operators (NOs) into the operator set of Lido on Ethereum. If approved, the proposal would add the first … Read more
SSV Network proposed a new permissionless staking module for Lido, aiming to improve decentralization and staking infrastructure for institutional participants. SSV Network proposed a permissionless staking module that leverages SSV’s Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) to integrate node operators (NOs) into the operator set of Lido on Ethereum. If approved, the proposal would add the first … Read more