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

XRP, SUI Lead Crypto Rebound as Bitcoin Tops $89K; Relief Rally Faces $100K Wall, Trader Says

Traders now see a December rate cut increasingly likely, following fresh comments from San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly.

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Markets

Rumble Gains 13% After Tether Boosts Stake by 1M Shares

The advance occurred alongside a rally in data center and high-performance computing stocks.

Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski at Consensus 2025 in Toronto (CoinDesk)

Finance

BitMine Immersion Added Nearly 70K Ether Last Week, Now Holding 3% of ETH Supply

Tom Lee's company increased its crypto holdings last week despite sitting on around $4 billion in unrealized losses on its ETH bet.

Screenshot of Tom Lee on CoinDesk TV (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Treasuries to Move Beyond HODL to Yield, Hedging and Share Buybacks as NAV Discount Bites

As the bitcoin treasury frenzy fades, the HODL pitch isn't completely dead, but firm should consider active reserve management to stand out, analysts say.

Bitcoin (CoinDesk)

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Finance

BitMine Immersion Sitting on $4B Loss on Ether Bet as Analyst Warns of Structural issues

Tom Lee's company could trap shareholders amid low staking yields, hefty embedded fees and vanishing NAV premium, 10x Research founder Markus Thielen warns.

Screenshot of Tom Lee on CoinDesk TV (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Bounces Above $84K as Fed's Williams Puts December Rate Cut Back on Table

Previously having essentially written off chances of further monetary ease in 2025, interest rate traders are now pricing more than a 70% chance of a rate cut at the Federal Reserve's December meeting.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is leading a program to test the use of digital tokens to settle transactions among financial institutions. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Anthony Scaramucci-Backed AVAX One Approves $40M Stock Buyback

Digital asset treasury firms are increasingly turning to share buybacks to arrest plunging stock prices as investor demand sours.

Avalanche (AVAX) (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin's Nvidia-Led Gains Prove Short-Lived, With Price Slumping Back to $88K

U.S. stocks are also giving up a major early advance, with the Nasdaq now ahead just 0.3%.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on Nov. 20 (CoinDesk)

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Finance

Tether Invests in LatAm Crypto Infrastructure Firm Parfin to Boost USDT Among Institutions

The investment is part of Tether’s broader push to expand stablecoin settlement and tokenization tools among institutions across Latin America, the firm said.

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Finance

Ether Treasury Firm FG Nexus Unloads Nearly 11K ETH to Fund Share Buyback

The action comes just a couple of weeks after fellow ETH treasury firm ETHZilla sold $40 million of tokens to fund its own share buybacks.

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