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Crypto for Advisors: Bitcoin’s price discovery

Bitcoin’s price discovery is increasingly driven by derivatives positioning and institutional synthetics rather than spot demand, signaling a structural shift in how crypto markets move.

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Policy

ECB seeks experts to help integrate digital euro into ATMs, card payment terminals

The European Central Bank is preparing the ground should legislators enable the issuance of a digital currency and the bank's governing council approve issuing it.

The EU seeks to put savings caps on the digital euro.

Markets

Bitcoin $20,000 put option is third most popular strike ahead of quarterly expiry

Nearly $600M in deep out-of-the-money puts highlights tail-risk positioning, though flows point more to volatility strategies than to outright bearish bets.

OI By Strike Price (Deribit)

Policy

Major League Baseball signs prediction markets pacts with CFTC, Polymarket

The arrangement between the U.S. derivatives regulator and the professional sports organization is the first of its kind in overseeing sports events contracts.

MLB (Brandon Sloter/Getty Images)
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CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 performance update: NEAR Protocol (NEAR) drops 3.3%, leading index lower

Hedera (HBAR), down 2.9% from Wednesday, was also an underperformer.

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Finance

Browser maker Opera seeks 160 million CELO stake to become key network stakeholder

The proposed allocation represents a major share of Celo's circulating supply and 16% of its maximum supply.

opera browser on smartphone (Zulfugar Karimov/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

XRP treasury firm Evernorth discloses $233.7 million impairment on holdings in SPAC filing

The company reported a $233.7 million digital asset impairment for 2025, reflecting the gap between purchase prices and lower market values.

Trading screen with price monitors and charts (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)

Policy

Coinbase faces a multibillion-dollar threat from D.C. but a 'rewards' loophole could protect its stablecoin revenue

The proposed rules could ban yield on stablecoins like USDC, though analysts say the exchange may adapt.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
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Markets

Bitcoin’s biggest DeFi drawback under attack as OpNet unlocks smart contracts on mainnet

Bitcoin’s biggest limitation is being challenged as OpNet brings native, yield-generating DeFi directly to the Bitcoin mainnet.

Abstract blockchain networks illustration with glowing cubes representing digital assets

Finance

Crypto.com cuts 12% of staff as it integrates AI across the business for efficiency

The exchange laid off about 180 employees as it restructures and rolls out enterprise-wide AI to drive efficiencies.

Crypto.com (Jesse Hamilton/Coindesk)

Markets

Venus’ XVS token plunges 9% as exploit leaves protocol with bad debt

The exploit, which occurred on March 16, didn’t appear to impact XVS prices until analysis showed major holders moving large amounts to exchanges.

Trading screen with price monitors and charts (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)
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Markets

Bitcoin slips below $70,000 as oil surge, Fed pause weigh on risk assets

BTC dipped below $70,000 as energy prices spiked and the Fed held interest rates, pressuring crypto and equities.

Oil rig operating during the sunset (Maria Lupan/Unsplash)

Tech

Bitcoin’s quantum threat is real, but far from an existential crisis, Galaxy says

Developers are already working to address quantum risks, and investors shouldn’t mistake a long-term challenge for an immediate threat, according to Galaxy Digital’s head of research Alex Thorn.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin, unusually, outperforms gold as hawkish Fed, oil price fuel risk-off sentiment

Bitcoin fell 2% while gold and silver saw sharper declines as oil prices surged and the Fed flashed hawkish signals.

BTCUSD/Gold (TradingView)

Markets

Bitcoin OGs dump over $100 million in BTC after hawkish Fed dents rate cut hopes

OGs sell as Fed's hawkish stance on rates pressures crypto and other risk assets.

A key market metric known as the "stETH discount" suggests market speculation that Celsius Network might dump a big stake. (Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)
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