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Robinhood starts testing its own blockchain as crypto and tokenization push deepens

The Robinhood Chain, built on Ethereum-based Arbitrum, aims to become key plumbing for around-the-clock trading and plugging tokenized stocks into DeFi.

Robinhood Senior Vice President Johann Kerbrat (CoinDesk archives)

Policy

Crypto PAC Fairshake leaps into first midterm Senate race with $5 million in Alabama

The industry's leading campaign-finance operation is getting behind a pro-crypto candidate, Barry Moore, in Alabama's Republican Senate primary.

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Crypto's banker adversaries didn't want to deal in latest White House meeting on bill

The White House had instructed crypto executives and bankers to come ready to compromise, but bankers maintained their call for a ban on stablecoin yields.

The White House, the executive office of the U.S. President (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

What to expect at CoinDesk's Consensus Hong Kong 2026

Consensus Hong Kong kicks off on Wednesday with speeches from the city's chief executive and the head of its markets regulator.

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Markets

Robinhood misses Q4 revenue estimates as fourth-quarter results dinged by crypto slump

Crypto revenue fell 38% year over year to $221M, even as the company expanded token listings and crypto features across its platform.

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Tech

Citadel Securities backs LayerZero as it unveils ‘Zero’ blockchain for global markets

Citadel has made a strategic investment in LayerZero’s ZRO token as the interoperability firm rolls out its high-performance blockchain.

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Ex-SafeMoon CEO gets 8-year prison sentence for defrauding investors

Braden John Karony had been convicted last year on several federal charges, and he's ordered to pay back $7.5 million in restitution.

The U.S. Department of Justice headquarters in Washington (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Sam Bankman-Fried files for new trial over FTX fraud charges

The incarcerated former leader of the failed crypto exchange wants a new chance to defend against fraud charges.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
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Markets

Concerns over Strategy selling bitcoin are 'unfounded,' Michael Saylor says

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor affirmed the firm’s commitment to a long-term bitcoin strategy following major fourth quarter losses and a continued plunge in prices early this year.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor at the Digital Asset Summit in New York City on March 20, 2025. (Nikhilesh De)

Markets

Struggling Coinbase gets price target cut from JPMorgan ahead of Thursday earnings

Shares of COIN are down nearly 30% this year, with analysts warning that softer trading and crypto prices are likely to weigh on revenue.

Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, at Consensus 2019 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Tether invests in LayerZero Labs as it doubles down on cross-chain tech, agentic finance

LayerZero’s Omnichain infrastructure (OFT) enables liquid stablecoin use across networks and “agentic finance” use cases.

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Markets

Bitcoin remains in tight range under $70,000 ahead of Wednesday's U.S. jobs report

Two Trump administration officials suggested markets should brace for weaker-than-expected January employment data.

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Finance

Crypto exchange Kraken fires chief financial officer ahead of long-awaited IPO

Kraken has moved chief financial officer Stephanie Lemmerman to a strategic advisory role, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Finance

Vitalik Buterin outlines how Ethereum could play a key role in the future of AI

In a post on X revisiting ideas he first outlined two years ago, the co-founder of Ethereum argues that the push toward artificial general intelligence often resembles the kind of unchecked speed and scale the blockchain was created to challenge.

Vitalik Buterin

CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 performance update: index falls 3.4% as all constituents trade lower

Aptos (APT) declined 5.5% and Ethereum (ETH) dropped 5.4%, leading the index lower from Monday.

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Blockchain.com wins UK registration nearly four years after abandoning FCA process

The London-based company elected to withdraw its application for FCA licensing in March 2022 having not won approval ahead of an impending deadline.

Blockchain.com founder and CEO Peter Smith (Blockchain.com, modified by CoinDesk)
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