The Cocoon decentralized AI network, a privacy-preserving distributed computing platform built on The Open Network (TON) — an independent layer-1 blockchain associated with the Telegram messaging application — went live on Sunday. Cocoon allows owners of graphics processing units (GPUs) to rent their computing power to the network, processing user queries and requests in return … Read more
U.K. resident users of major cryptocurrency exchanges will kick off the New Year with detailed transaction data automatically collected as the country’s authorities prepare to crack down on tax avoidance. According to the new HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) rules, crypto exchanges operating in the United Kingdom are required to start collecting the full transactional … Read more
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino and market analysts pushed back against S&P Global’s downgraded rating of USDt’s (USDT) ability to maintain its US dollar peg, saying that the ratings agency did not account for all of Tether’s assets and revenues. The Tether Group’s total assets at the end of Q3 2025 totaled about $215 billion, while … Read more
HBAR surged on Thursday, jumping from $0.1457 to $0.1494 as institutional flows accelerated and volume spiked 96% above its 24-hour average. The breakout gained traction around 08:00 GMT, with steady higher lows forming across a $0.0054 range and delivering a 3.5% intraday gain. HBAR briefly touched $0.1506 before profit-taking cooled momentum, though support at $0.1450 … Read more
When Brazilian fintech firm Méliuz (CASH3) reviewed its balance sheet in late 2024, it found something startling: it was profitable, debt-free, and growing, yet the market had valued its business at zero. “If you excluded the cash on hand,” Diego Kolling, Head of Bitcoin Strategy at Méliuz, told CoinDesk at the Blockchain Conference Brasil 2025. … Read more
Amundi, one of the largest asset managers in Europe, has issued a tokenized share class of its flagship euro cash fund, in an effort to bring more products onto distributed ledgers, the company announced on Thursday. The Amundi Funds Cash EUR fund now trades in a hybrid setup. Investors can purchase the traditional share class … Read more
The native token of the Ethereum network, Ether (ETH), is undervalued in nine out of 12 commonly used valuation models, according to Ki Young Ju, a market analyst and CEO of crypto market analysis platform CryptoQuant. A composite “fair value” using all 12 valuation models prices ETH at about $4,836, an over 58% gain compared … Read more
Brazil’s crypto market is moving billions of dollars a month, and regulators are taking notice. In a technical presentation at the Blockchain Conference Brasil, Flavio Correa Prado, an auditor at Brazil’s tax authority, the Receita Federal, revealed that crypto transactions reported under existing rules have reached between $6 billion and $8 billion per month. If … Read more
For the past twelve months, Strategy (MSTR) Executive Chairman Michael Saylor has maintained a consistent pattern, making a playful X post nearly every Sunday using a chart with orange dots to suggest a Monday announcement of additional bitcoin BTC$91,711.36 purchases. The pattern appeared to break at least a little bit this Sunday, though, with Saylor … Read more
Bitcoin digital asset treasury (DAT) companies have been making headlines in recent weeks, and often for the wrong reasons. A sharp decline in crypto markets and over 40% slump (as of Nov. 27) in the share price of the world’s largest corporate holder of bitcoin, Strategy (MSTR), this year, has led some to question the … Read more