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

Coinbase, Robinhood Hit Record Highs as U.S. House Passes Landmark Crypto Legislation

Crypto-linked stocks climbed higher on Thursday bolstered by investor optimism on stablecoin and crypto market structure bills advancing.

Coinbase (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Tech

Wyoming Tests Instant Payments with State-Issued Stablecoin on Avalanche-Based Hashfire

The exercise aims to showcase how stablecoins and blockchain rails can cut government vendor payments from weeks to seconds.

Cheyenne, Wyoming (Pete Alexopoulos/Unsplash)

Finance

Adam Back's Bitcoin Treasury Firm to Go Public with 30K BTC and $1.5B in Buying Power

Named Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company, or BSTR, the company is coming public via a SPAC merger with Brandon Lutnick's Cantor Equity Partners 1.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus Hong Kong in February (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Finance

BitMine's Ethereum Bet Tops $1B as ETH Strategy Accelerates

BitMine now holds over 300,000 ETH, including options, as part of an aggressive strategy to secure 5% of the token's supply.

A Holstein bull is tethered to a peg in the ground (Cvmontuy/Wikimedia Commons)

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Tech

Securitize Takes Tokenized Hamilton Lane Credit Fund Multichain, Bringing It Closer to DeFi

The on-chain credit fund, issued with $956 billion private investment firm Hamilton Lane, now spans Ethereum and Optimism, added daily liquidity and DeFi-ready token.

Digitally altered photo of a dollar bill (Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin's 4-Year Cycles May Be Over as the Asset Matures, K33 Analysts Say

Macroeconomic forces matter more now for BTC than the quadrennial mining reward halvings.

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Finance

Trump-Linked WLFI Token Clears Vote to Become Tradable

Holders voted 99% in favor of enabling transfers and exchange listings for WLFI, which has been locked-up since last year's $590 million presale.

Justin Sun of TRON and Zak Folkman of World Liberty Financial speak at Consensus Hong Kong 2025 by CoinDesk (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Markets

ETH Surges 10% to Year-to-Date Gain as Bitcoin Retakes $120K

It's six month high for ETH thanks to tailwinds from corporate ether treasury strategies and ETF inflows.

Ether (ETH) price on July 15 (CoinDesk)

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Markets

Peter Thiel Reveals 9.1% Stake in Tom Lee's ETH-Focused Bitmine Immersion Technologies

BMNR is ahead 25% today, with ether up another 9% as interest continues to build in ETH corporate treasury strategies.

Peter Thiel

Markets

Arbitrum's ARB Surges After Appearing Among Supported Chains for PayPal's $850M PYUSD Stablecoin

PayPal's cryptocurrency terms listed the network as a supported chain for its Paxos-issued stablecoin, despite any deal not being officially announced.

PayPal logo on iphone screen (Marques Thomas/Unsplash)