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SpaceX IPOs with $1.3B in Bitcoin, Citi tokenizes private shares, and Coinbase lets AI trade for you
On this episode of Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by GSR's Joshua Riezman on SpaceX's $1.29 billion Bitcoin bet and the outlook for the CLARITY Act; Citi's Artem Korenyuk on the bank's new platform for tokenizing private company shares; and Coinbase's Lincoln Murr on AI agent trading and the future of autonomous finance. Plus, Ponzi Trader's highest-conviction trade of the week on 10X, presented by Kraken Pro. - This episode of Public Keys is brought to you by Kraken Pro. For more: https://pro.kraken.com/ - Learn more at https://www.bullish.com/. - Register now for CoinDesk's Policy and Regulation event on September 24, 2026: https://policy-regulation.coindesk.com/.
Bitcoin hit bottom at $59,000 marking end to the crypto winter, says Standard Chartered analyst
Senior market analyst Geoffrey Kendrick pointed to the SpaceX IPO and a potential U.S.-Iran peace deal as the dual catalysts ending the recent crypto selloff.
There's one simple way to tell whether bitcoin has really bottomed. Right now, it hasn't.
Bitcoin's weekly RSI contains a critical level that has reliably separated bull and bear market regimes across multiple cycles. Right now, the indicator has yet to clear that line.
Bearish zcash bets hit record high as privacy token's price crashes
Liquidations were small relative to the size of the decline, pointing to spot selling rather than a leverage cascade, while open interest in ZEC futures climbed to a record high in token terms as traders crowded into the slide from the short side.
Here's what could happen if bitcoin breaks below $60,000
A confluence of factors makes $60,000 as key level to watch for in the near term, according to Deribit.
Bitcoin briefly drops below $62,000 as $1.5 billion in crypto longs get wiped out
Presto Research says bitcoin's drawdowns this year have coincided with rallies in AI stocks and gold as markets scale back expectations for Fed rate cuts.
Tom Lee calls Strategy's bitcoin sale classic 'bottom behavior'
Bitmine Immersion Technologies chairman said minor sales from key holders and institutional outflows are typical market bottom behaviors rather than structural threats.
Coinbase makes a major play for India’s booming $3 billion crypto market with local currency launch
Coinbase announces INR rails to make the platform fully accessible to Indian retail traders.
NYSE's owner calls Hyperliquid bigger than NASDAQ
ICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher said Hyperliquid is "bigger than NASDAQ" by daily volume, and disclosed his team has met its founders multiple times. The DeFi platform controls over 70% of the decentralized perp market and has been trading oil futures on weekends when traditional exchanges are closed. CoinDesk's Sam Ewen hosts "CoinDesk Daily."
CFTC not ready for crypto's expansion, expert warns
CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti dig into the New York Times investigation of the CFTC and Kalshi's latest lawsuit against Minnesota before sitting down with Aaron Klein, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Klein argues that independent financial regulators have been turned into "subsidiaries of the White House," warns that the CFTC is not structurally up to the jurisdiction CLARITY would hand it, and makes the case that the SEC and CFTC should be merged. He also unpacks lessons from Dodd-Frank and the savings-and-loan crisis. Plus, Rebecca and Renato debrief on the CFTC staffing debate and name House Agriculture Chairman GT Thompson and Ranking Member Angie Craig as their People of the Week for their bipartisan push to fill out the CFTC commission.
