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Finance

Canton’s Yuval Rooz says smart contract blockchains face a reckoning over value gap

The network's co-founder says many blockchains pitching financial rails lack the activity to justify their valuations, and stablecoins still lack true product-market fit.

Yuval Rooz, co-founder of Canton

Finance

U.S. judge freezes BlockFills assets in dispute over 70 bitcoin with creditor Dominion Capital

A New York federal court barred the crypto trading firm from moving bitcoin tied to Dominion Capital, citing suspended withdrawals and insolvency concerns.

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Finance

Trump-backed American Bitcoin board members scoop up stock following earnings

Board members Justin Mateen and Richard Busch bought roughly 1.6 million shares after the trading window reopened following the bitcoin miner’s latest earnings report.

Eric Trump, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, American Bitcoin speaks at Consensus 2025. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto bulls slam Ray Dalio's 'tired narratives' in defense of bitcoin's future

Experts push back on billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio's warning of bitcoin lacking gold’s qualities and risks from surveillance, quantum computing and lack of central bank buying.

Ray Dalio (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIME)

Markets

CEO of crypto investment firm Keyrock says bitcoin is undervalued, entering ‘transition year’

Kevin de Patoul argues that 2026 won't be a washout for digital assets, but instead a structural reset as traditional finance quietly moves onchain.

Keyrock CEO and co-founder Kevin de Patoul (Keyrock, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Here is why Harvard trimmed bitcoin and bought ether and why the move is bullish for crypto

Volatility and private equity cash needs, not a market bet, may explain the endowment’s crypto shift, experts say.

Harvard University library (Pascal Bernardon/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin could slide further on liquidity squeeze, but long-term bull case intact: Sygnum CIO

Fabian Dori says a short-term liquidity squeeze is driving crypto’s slump, with further downside possible, though improving macro data and fundamentals could speed a recovery.

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Tech

A former Solana exec is taking a page out of Wall Street playbook to make global crypto trades faster

The goal is to reduce Solana’s growing geographic concentration in Europe and introduce multicast functionality.

Stablecoin networks (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Blockfills co-founder and CEO Nicholas Hammer has stepped down

The crypto lender suspended client deposits and withdrawals earlier this month due to recent market and financial conditions.

A man runs past a wall-painted exit pictogram toward a door.

Finance

Kraken rolls out crypto-style, 24/7 perpetuals trading for tokenized U.S. stocks

The crypto exchange is bringing U.S. stocks closer to the crypto world, letting users trade derivatives of tokenized stocks around-the-clock and with 20x leverage.

Kraken