Parikshit Mishra

Parikshit Mishra is CoinDesk's Head of Asia, managing the editorial team in the region. Before joining CoinDesk, he was the EMEA Editor at Acuris (Mergermarket), where he dealt with copies related to private equity and the startup ecosystem. He has also worked as an Senior Analyst for CRISIL, covering the European markets and global economies. His most notable tenure was with Reuters, where he worked as a correspondent and an editor for various teams. He does not have any crypto holdings.

Parikshit Mishra

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Finance

Kraken to Buy NinjaTrader for $1.5B to Enter U.S. Crypto Futures Market

The deal could be a way for the crypto exchange to move into another asset class and increase its users.

(Kraken)

Markets

XRP Whales Boost Coin Stash by Over 6% to 46.4B in Two Months, Blockchain Data Shows

Large investors have persisted in accumulating coins even as the cryptocurrency has shown a lack of clear directional bias over the past two months.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Markets

Ripple CEO Confident of XRP Being Included in U.S. Strategic Reserve, Says IPO Is 'Possible'

XRP has recently climbed 11% to over $2.51, becoming the third-largest token by market capitalization behind bitcoin and ether

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse speaking at the DC Blockchain Summit 2019.

Markets

XRP Zooms 10% as Garlinghouse Says SEC Is Dropping Case Against Ripple

Earlier reports said that the long-standing legal battle between Ripple and the agency is nearing its end.

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple Labs (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bitcoin, Ether, Solana Likely to See 3%- 5% Price Swings on FOMC Rate Decision, Volmex's Data Suggests

These figures might be scary for equity or currency traders but do not represent a major deviation from the normal in the crypto market.

(AbelEscobar/Pixabay)

Markets

Ether Jumps 7% as Bitcoin Traders Watch $80K Support Ahead of FOMC

Meanwhile, gold broke above $3,000 to new highs earlier Wednesday, leading to some eyeing an inverse correlation of the yellow metal with bitcoin.

Close-up of the head of a statue of a bull (cjweaver13/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Wallet Provider Utila Raises $18M as Institutional Demand for Digital Asset Management Soars

The crypto infrastructure provider has processed $8 billion in transactions in a month, CEO Bentzi Rabi told CoinDesk in an interview.

Utila founders Sam Eiderman, CTO, and Bentzi Rabi, CEO (Utila)

Policy

The Man Who Stabbed CEO of South Korean Crypto Firm Haru Invest Could Face Decade in Prison

The CEO of South Korea’s Haru Invest was stabbed in court during his fraud trial in August 2024.

South Korea flag (Planet Volumes / Unsplash)

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Markets

Battered Bitcoin Looks to U.S. Fed for Support, Bank of America Predicts End of Quantitative Tightening

The expected end of quantitative tightening could bode well for BTC and other risk assets, but gains may be tempered by stagflationary adjustments in economic projections.

Battered BTC bulls pin hopes on the Fed. (JamesQube/Pixabay)

Markets

Raydium’s RAY Jumps 13% as DEX Reveals Own Token Issuance Platform

LaunchLab will offer three types of bonding curves that match demand and price for a token and will let third-party UIs set their fees.

(Getty Images/Unsplash)