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Over 60% of crypto press releases are linked to high-risk or scam projects, study finds

Crypto press release services often provide misleading marketing content, creating an illusion of legitimacy by placing unverified announcements alongside legitimate news.

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Markets

Tether scales back $20 billion funding ambitions after investor resistance: FT

Advisers are now discussing a smaller fundraising of roughly $5 billion, as prospective backers question both the size of the deal and Tether’s lofty valuation.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin's 'RSI' screams oversold. Here is what it means

Bitcoin's relative strength index has fallen below 30, signaling oversold conditions as the cryptocurrency trades near a key $73,000 to $75,000 support zone.

AI trading screens. (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin ETF outflows deepen as ether and XRP funds quietly attract inflows

The flows are indicative of a growing split in how investors are positioning across major crypto assets during the latest bout of market volatility.

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Markets

ETF that feasts on carnage in bitcoin-holder Strategy hits record high

Leveraged anti-strategy ETFs are booming as shares in the bitcoin holder slide.

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Markets

Ether and majors rise as bitcoin rebounds to $76,000 but the bounce may not last

Flows and on-chain data signaled defensive positioning, as crypto investment products logged $1.7 billion in weekly outflows.

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Policy

Crypto darknet drug kingpin Rui-Siang Lin gets 30 years

U.S. prosecutors say the Taiwanese operator of the $105 Million Incognito Market used cryptocurrency and anonymity tools before investigators tied him to the platform through domain records and digital traces.

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Markets

'Big Short' Michael Burry flags “death spiral” after silver liquidations beat bitcoin

Tokenized silver futures logged one of the largest wipeouts across crypto markets, overtaking the usual leaders bitcoin and ether.

Michael Burry attends the "The Big Short" New York premiere at Ziegfeld Theater on Nov. 23, 2015.
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Markets

Tom Lee says BitMine’s $6 billion ether paper loss is “by design"

The firm said unrealized losses are expected in a downturn, arguing its ethereum-heavy balance sheet is designed to track and outperform ETH over a full market cycle.

Bitmine chairman Tom Lee

Markets

CoinDesk Research: U.S. leads institutional crypto, Asia rules trading ahead of Consensus Miami

Asia’s dominance is visible across every major dataset in this report, but the U.S. is assembling the institutional engine for the next surge of global adoption, while Latin America is already proving how utility-driven demand can scale in the real economy.

Consensus Miami

Finance

WisdomTree, a firm with $150 billion in assets, says crypto is now a core business

WisdomTree’s Jonathan Steinberg says the firm’s tokenization push is nearing profitability, with $750 million in digital assets and long-term plans to modernize financial infrastructure.

Jonathan Steinberg (left), CEO, WisdomTree, and Kevin Reynolds, editor-in-chief, CoinDesk (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry warns bitcoin plunge could trigger $1 billion gold, silver selloff

Burry said crypto losses may have forced institutions to liquidate precious metals as bitcoin slid below $73,000.

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Markets

Bitcoin’s wild Tuesday: From a 14-month low to a sharp rally triggers $740 million in liquidations

Bitcoin failing to bounce soon could set the stage for "one hell of a year," one analyst said.

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Policy

Canada’s investment watchdog rolls out crypto custody rules to avoid another QuadrigaCX

CIRO’s new digital asset custody framework takes effect immediately, raising standards for crypto trading platforms as regulators push to reduce investor risk.

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Policy

Trump's White House won't tolerate attacks on the president in crypto bill, adviser says

Patrick Witt, the president's digital assets adviser, told CoinDesk that anti-corruption provisions targeting Trump would not be acceptable.

Former Representative Patrick McHenry, White House adviser Patrick Witt and Treasury Department official Tyler Williams at the Ondo Summit in New York (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Digital wallets will hold 'totality' of people's assets, says Franklin Templeton

At the Ondo Summit in New York, top asset managers said tokenization has moved beyond theory but warned that trust, education, and real-world utility are now the biggest hurdles.

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