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Merkado

Coinbase Q4 Earnings Expected to Show Best Volume Since 2021

The crypto exchange reports fourth quarter results after the close on Thursday.

Coinbase (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy Discusses the Future of Crypto Trading

The algorithmic trading firm’s founder opines on AI’s growing role, the differences between Asian and Western markets, and liquidity fragmentation.

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Pananalapi

Crypto Exchange Woo X Adds AI-Powered Trader ‘George AI’ to Its Copy Trade App

Traders can copy “George AI” instead of the best humans on the copy trade leader board, or bet each week on who will win out of man versus machine.

Are human traders becoming obsolete? (Woo X)

Pananalapi

FCA-Regulated Crypto Trading Firm Portofino Technologies Sees Staff Exodus

Co-founder Alex Casimo and CFO Jae Park were fired in July, which triggered a number of departures from the market making firm.

Sign saying "Now Hiring" sits on a lawn.

Pananalapi

Standard Chartered Is Building a Spot BTC, ETH Trading Desk

The new London-based desk will start operations soon and be part of the bank's FX trading unit.

Standard Chartered building (Chengting Xie/Unsplash)

Merkado

Bitcoin No Longer Trading at a Premium on Coinbase, Data Show

CryptoQuant's "Coinbase premium" indicator has flipped negative, signaling a weaker net buying pressure from U.S. investors.

Bitcoin: Coinbase premium index (SMA 7). (CryptoQuant)

Patakaran

China's Illegal Crypto Activities Are Taking Place in Laundromats and Cafes: WSJ

Physical trading is most popular in China's inland, as places further from the coast are generally poorer so local governments are preoccupied with other matters, WSJ reported.

Laundromat (Skitterphoto/Pixabay)

Tech

Sei, Blockchain Designed for Trading, Goes Live but 'Frustration' Mounts Over Airdrop

The buzzy blockchain project's SEI token saw a flurry of trading as it debuted on several crypto exchanges, but there was much confusion over the status of a promised token "airdrop" to early adopters of the network.

Sei Labs co-founder Jay Jog (CoinDesk TV)

Merkado

As Crypto Grows, so Does CoinDesk’s Commitment to Keeping Pace

A new CoinDesk tool called the Bitcoin Trend Indicator can help traders spot where BTC is headed.

(Jonathan Chng/Unsplash)

Tech

Crypto Trading Tech Firm CoinRoutes Wins Patent for ‘Smart Order Router’

The invention by the father-and-son team of David and Ian Weisberger allows “clients to keep control of their own private and exchange keys to their wallets and accounts, but can execute orders across multiple exchanges simultaneously,” according to the patent document.

Schematic image from patent for "distributed crypto-currency smart router." (U.S. Patent Office, modified by CoinDesk)