Will Canny

Will Canny is an experienced market reporter with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. He's now covering the crypto beat as a finance reporter at CoinDesk. He owns more than $1,000 of SOL.

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Markets

Bitcoin Likely to Drop After the Halving, JPMorgan Says

The bank’s analysis of open interest in bitcoin futures shows that the cryptocurrency is still considered overbought.

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Finance

DeFi Firm Usual Labs Raises $7M Round Led by Kraken Ventures and IOSG Ventures

The firm has received a commitment of $75 million in total value locked for the launch of its stablecoin USD0.

Usual Labs founding team. (Usual labs)

Markets

Bitcoin’s Outperformance Means Some of Expected Post-Halving Rally May Have Come Early: JPMorgan

Recent weakness in bitcoin mining stocks ahead of the reward halving offers an attractive entry point for investors, the report said.

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Markets

Buy Bitcoin Miners' Stocks Ahead of the Halving, Bernstein Says

Bitcoin’s bullish trajectory is expected to resume after the halving once mining hashrates have adjusted to the lower rewards and ETF inflows resume, the report said.

A close-up of one of Riot's mining rigs. (Riot Blockchain)

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Finance

Bitcoin ETFs Are Driving a Spot Multiplier Effect, Canaccord Says

Many investors find the underlying cryptocurrency more attractive than ETFs given the ability to hedge and to generate yield on HODLs, the report said.

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Markets

Bitcoin Miner CEOs Are Upbeat Ahead of the Halving, Expect M&A: Bernstein

Miners' shares have lagged as bitcoin outperformance has sucked retail liquidity from mining stocks, the report said.

CleanSpark's immersion cooling facility in Norcross, Georgia. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Policy

Ether Spot ETFs Still Have No More Than 50% Chance of Approval in May: JPMorgan

There will probably be litigation against the SEC after May if ether ETFs aren’t approved, the report said.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin’s Bullish Quarter Eases Consumer Skepticism: Deutsche Bank

While 40% of respondents to the German bank’s survey said bitcoin will thrive in the coming years, 38% said they expect the cryptocurrency to disappear.

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Finance

Bitcoin Layer 2 Mezo Emerges From Stealth With $21M Raise Led by Pantera

Mezo is a permissionless Bitcoin economic layer that uses a neutral smart contract infrastructure to offer a wide range of applications.

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Finance

Stablecoins Are Seeing Adoption as a Cross-Border Settlement Mechanism: Bernstein

Solana is leading the field in blockchain payments, but the network has scalability issues, the report said.

(Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)