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$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price bets on active management with first multi-token crypto ETF

T. Rowe Price launched what it says is the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, offering diversified exposure to digital assets.

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Finance

Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing exchange at $20 billion

The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin

Finance

Stripe’s $53 billion PayPal bid is a high-stakes play to own the future of digital payments

If Stripe acquires PayPal, the real prize could be consumer wallets, stablecoin issuance or the infrastructure powering the next generation of digital payments.

Paypal headquarters in the Silicon Valley, San Jose, California. (Getty Images)

Finance

Visa backs Open USD with new stablecoin platform as Circle faces fresh competition

Visa launched a stablecoin platform that lets banks and fintechs issue, manage and settle digital dollars through its payments network.

Visa offices. (Media/Visa)
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Finance

Keyrock acquires BlockFills trading assets to expand institutional crypto business

The deal adds institutional trading clients, derivatives expertise and regulatory licenses as Keyrock looks to deepen its presence in crypto capital markets.

Keyrock CEO and co-founder Kevin de Patoul (Keyrock)

Opinion

The Clarity Act is the most important consumer protection effort in years

Consumers should not have to wait for another crisis to get the protections they deserve, argues Summer Mersinger, CEO of the Blockchain Association.

U.S. Capitol Building (Getty Images/David Shvartsman)

Finance

Crypto brokerage firm Alpaca raises $135 million for tokenized stock infrastructure

The company has previously cleared or held in custody roughly 94% of tokenized U.S. equities and now holds over $1.5 billion in underlying stocks.

Alpacas (Dylan Leagh/Unsplash)
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Tech

Ledger wants AI agents to manage crypto without holding your keys

AI agents can read wallet balances and analyze portfolios but requires every sensitive action to be approved on a Ledger hardware device before it can be executed.

Charles Guillemet. Ledger CTO. (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Tech

Galaxy targets institutional stablecoin yield with new DeFi vaults

The crypto financial services firm launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform that gives Fireblocks' 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain yield strategies.

Mike Novogratz, Galaxy founder and CEO, speaks at Consensus 2024

Finance

Inside the high-stakes race to build an open financial system specifically for AI bots

The newly-convened x402 Foundation is a neutral space where competitors and payment methods can work together to create an open standard for AI agentic commerce.

CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation Denelle Dixon. (Getty Images)
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Markets

Bitcoin pulls back to $64,000 after hitting monthly high as bears take control

Profit-taking after bitcoin hit a $65,500 monthly high combined with fresh Iranian strikes on U.S. bases sent crypto lower, with bears leading price action across most tokens.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data

Finance

Tether invests $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá as it expands Latin America push

Ualá’s CEO clarified Tether is acting solely as a financial investor, citing current regional regulations preventing any immediate USDT integration.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

U.S. adds four Iran central bank crypto wallets to sanctions, Tether freezes $131 million of contents

The freeze targets TRON-based addresses that held over $165 million, preventing those specific funds from being transferred or redeemed.

Iran Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati casts a ballot

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Live updates: Bitcoin holding $64,000 as AI momentum stocks continue to tumble

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT came down heavily on hardware wallets. BTC traded steady near $65,000 after South Korea's rate hike.

Bitcoin's 24 hour performance. (CoinDesk data)
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