Krisztian Sandor

Krisztian Sandor is a U.S. markets reporter focusing on stablecoins, tokenization, real-world assets. He graduated from New York University's business and economic reporting program before joining CoinDesk. He holds BTC, SOL and ETH.

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Markets

Bitcoin ETFs Smash $10B Trading Volume Record Amid Wild BTC Price Action

Last week's volume record coincided with strong ETF inflows, but Tuesday's action could indicate heavy profit-taking, with traders perhaps deciding to sell shares to lock in gains.

Scrabble letters spelling ETF arranged a rack

Markets

Bitcoin Tumbles 10% After Hitting Record High; Triggers $1B Crypto Liquidations

Bitcoin's new all-time high Tuesday quickly turned into a bloodbath, flushing out overzealous leveraged traders.

Bitcoin price action on March 5 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy to Raise $600M to Buy More Bitcoin

Taking advantage of a massive run-up in the stock, the company is looking to add to its 193,000 bitcoin stack.

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of MicroStrategy (Michael.com)

Finance

Institutional Crypto Wallet Provider Utila Raises $11.5M, Aims to Facilitate Tokenization Boom

Utila's self-custodial wallet offers a simplified user interface, fast onboarding process and recently added enhanced tokenization capabilities to better serve token issuers, co-founder and CEO Bentzi Rabi said in an interview.

Utila team (Utila)

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Markets

Bitcoin Tops $68K, Nearing Silver's $1.38T Market Cap

Ether also hit a new milestone, recording its highest price since January 2022.

Bitcoin price on March 4 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Tether's USDT Stablecoin Touches $100B Market Cap, Benefiting From Crypto Trading Frenzy

Despite years-long scrutiny over Tether's stability, USDT saw a rapid resurgence in 2023 benefiting from its close competitors' troubles.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

Markets

Meme Coin Rally May Signal Impending Altcoin Season; This Is the Sign to Watch

Bitcoin has led the crypto advance this year, but altcoins could start outperforming soon, analysts said.

DOGE Meme shiba inu (Atsuko Sato)

Markets

Grayscale GBTC Selling Accelerates but Bitcoin ETF Inflows Remain Positive, Led by BlackRock

The key driver behind the selling could potentially be crypto lender Genesis, which last month received bankruptcy court approval to sell 35 million GBTC shares.

Grayscale advertisement (Grayscale)

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Markets

Bitcoin Blasting Toward Biggest Monthly Gain in 3 Years

The cryptocurrency has more room to run, analysts say.

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Markets

Bitcoin ETF Trading Frenzy Continues After Record $673M Net Inflow as BTC Price Nears Record

BlackRock's bitcoin ETF (IBIT) surpassed $1 billion in trading volume Thursday for the fourth consecutive day.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)