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ARK Invest goes on $19 million buying spree as crypto stocks nurse losses

ARK added to its holdings in CRCL, BLSH, COIN, HOOD, BMNR and XYZ on Tuesday as bitcoin fell as low as $73,000.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood

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This onchain metric has identified the Bitcoin bottom every cycle

Convergence between bitcoin supply in profit and supply in loss has repeatedly coincided with major market lows.

BTC: Profit vs Loss SUpply (Glassnode)

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Crypto steadies after selloff as bitcoin, ether rebound from multiyear lows

Bitcoin and ether are posting gains after a sharp market-wide decline, with derivatives traders continuing to reduce risk exposure.

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Finance

Crypto’s wealthy investors and industry leaders see IPO hype waning in 2026

Despite expectations for some IPO and venture activity in 2026, fewer investors feel as confident as they did last year, according to the latest CfC St. Moritz report.

Nicolo Stöhr, CEO of the CfC St. Moritz

Finance

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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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)

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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.

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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.

Digitally altered photo of a dollar bill (Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

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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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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.

Price bounce (Getty Images)

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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'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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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

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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)
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