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Bitcoin tanks to $74,300 as spot ETFs bleed $2.26 billion in two weeks

U.S.-listed spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds have seen more than $2.26 billion in outflows over the past two weeks.

BTC's price slide. (CoinDesk)

Finance

F2Pool founder who controls 11% of bitcoin's hashrate to lead first SpaceX mission to Mars

Chun Wang, the first Mission Commander for SpaceX’s first commercial spaceflight to Mars, is crucial for the future transport of millions of tons of cargo and a million citizens to the Red Planet.

F2Pool's Chun Wang (Source: SpaceX Blog)

Finance

Robinhood Crypto COO Tanya Denisova is leaving company amid revenue slowdown

Robinhood Crypto COO Tanya Denisova is leaving the firm after more than five years, as the trading platform navigates a sharp decline in crypto revenue and works to lessen its dependence on digital asset market cycles.

Robinhood shares could benefit from SEC dropping Coinbase case. (Shutterstock)

News Analysis

SEC Commissioner Peirce counters views that crypto rule will foster synthetic tokens

Hester Peirce, the commissioner behind the SEC's Crypto Task Force, made statements on the now-delayed proposal, perhaps tamping down mistaken beliefs.

Securities and Exchange Commission's Hester Peirce
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Finance

Why Minnesota is empowering local banks to fight Wall Street for crypto revenue

A local banker told CoinDesk that in light of Wall Street’s aggressive push into the crypto industry, Minnesota's financial institutions could not afford to remain on the sidelines.

(Bernadette "Bernie" Perryman)

Policy

Tom Emmer brushes off law enforcement concerns over Clarity Act

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said concerns from law enforcement groups about crypto developer protections are being overstated.

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Policy

Congress hits Polymarket and Kalshi with a massive insider trading probe

Rep. James Comer is demanding internal records from the prediction market CEOs, warning that government employees could be using classified information to make “huge profits”.

congress. (Shutterstock)

Opinion

The agentic CFO in your pocket

Chalom explains that retail investors have never had the opportunity to access and manage their own digital treasury desk. Until now.

AI Hand Analyzing Financial Data Graphs for Business Strategy
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Tech

Live markets: Bitcoin heads lower late Friday as Warsh takes over at Fed

Kevin Warsh was sworn in as Fed chairman in a White House ceremony early Friday afternoon.

Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh to the Federal Reserve Board (Getty)

Markets

IREN co-founder says AI’s biggest bottleneck is infrastructure, not chips

Dan Roberts outlines IREN’s strategy to build a vertically integrated AI platform spanning power, data centers, GPUs and enterprise software.

Mining equipment (Shutterstock)

CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 performance update: NEAR surges 19.4% as index trades flat

Internet Computer (ICP), up 4.3% from Thursday, joined NEAR Protocol (NEAR) as a top performer.

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Markets

Trump Media moved but 'did not sell' $205 million in bitcoin amid rising losses on crypto bets

DJT’s bitcoin strategy remains under pressure as the company sits on hundreds of millions in unrealized crypto losses and widening quarterly deficits.

(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Markets

Tom Lee says trillions in tech IPO supply won't crash the S&P 500

Fundstrat’s Tom Lee argues that trillions in new IPO supply from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI could ultimately be absorbed by underallocated investors.

Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine and cofounder of Fundstrat, speaking at Consensus 2026 in Miami (CoinDesk)

Finance

OKX and ICE are bringing 'never-expiring' oil futures to 120 million crypto users

The new partnership comes as Hyperliquid’s oli futures contracts that never expire have been a huge success with over $1.6 billion in 24-hour trading volume.

Intercontinental Exchange CEO Jeffrey Sprecher mentioned Bakkt only once, and the bitcoin-focused subsidiary otherwise did not come up during Thursday's earnings call. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Bitcoin left behind in the geopolitical melee

Your day-ahead look for May 22, 2026

Geopolitics (Vilius Kukanauskas/Pixabay)

Markets

Ark Invest buys $12.5 million of Bullish stock in four days

Ark frequently uses broader digital asset downturns, which tend to pull crypto equities lower, as an entry point into cryptocurrency companies.

Crypto platform Bullish goes public on the New York Stock Exchange. (CoinDesk/Nik De)
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