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Opinion

Why Trump’s Potential Plan to Make Crypto Gains Tax-Free Could Be a Bad Idea

The elimination of capital gains taxes on crypto might not be the huge boon to American investors that it would appear to be.

President Donald Trump

Markets

CME Group to Launch Solana Futures as Demand for Crypto Derivatives Grows

CME Group expands its crypto offerings with Solana futures, set to debut in March.

CME Group Headquarters (CoinDesk Archives)

CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: UNI Drops 7.1% as Nearly All Assets Trade Lower

Aave (AAVE) joined Uniswap (UNI) as an underperformer, declining 7% from Thursday.

CoinDesk

Markets

Boerse Stuttgart Partners With DekaBank to Offer Crypto Trading for Institutional Clients

The collaboration comes as part of the exchange’s plan to expand partnerships with major financial institutions.

Stuttgart Stock Exchange, owner of Boerse Stuttgart Digital (Boerse Stuttgart)

Markets

Borrowed Cash Fuels Bitcoin Purchases on Bitfinex as BTC Price Tumbles

Since the start of the year, bitcoin holdings bought on margin on Bitfinex have increased by over 13,000 BTC.

BTCUSD Longs vs BTCUSD (TradingView)

Markets

Bitcoin Set for Worst Month Since June 2022, Worst Week Since November That Year

This year's average purchase price is around $97,880, leaving investors facing an almost 20% unrealized loss at current prices.

Bitcoin: Exchange Average Withdrawal Price By Year (Glassnode)

Markets

Bitcoin Sell-Off Could Be a Textbook 'Breakout and Retest' Play: Godbole

The breakout and re-test play has its roots in behavioral aspects of trading and investing.

BTC's weekly chart: Breakout and retest play. (CoinDesk/TradingView)

Markets

XRP, DOGE Plunge 10% as Fresh Trump Tariffs Hit China Markets

Overall crypto market capitalization fell 8% to $2.7 trillion, reversing all advances since Republican Donald Trump was elected U.S. president in early November.

People taking a plunge. (Mike Powell/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Tumbles to $80K, XRP Loses Key Support as Trump Tariffs Regain Centrality, Dollar Index Rises

BTC extended the price slide during Friday's Asian trading hours as U.S. tariffs boosted demand for the dollar.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Tech

Popular Crypto Wallet MetaMask Unveils New Roadmap

Part of their new roadmap includes adding features that make the wallet experience easier for users.

The MetaMask Institutional booth at Paris Blockchain Week 2022 (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Tokenized Assets Can Redefine Portfolio Management

Tokenizing real-world assets on a blockchain generates the kind of daily, market-derived data that has traditionally been reserved for a narrow set of assets, says EY’s Paul Brody.

Shubham Dhage

Finance

Coinbase, NEAR, Others Form Alliance to Develop Open AI Services

The Open Agents Alliance (OAA) consists of NEAR AI, the payments and AI arms of crypto exchange Coinbase and an array of other blockchain and AI projects.

Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol (Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Policy

SEC Publishes Memecoin Stance Reinforcing Hester Peirce’s Comments

Memecoins aren’t securities, the agency said on Thursday.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce.

Finance

Here's How Mainland China May Allow Chinese Traders Access to Bitcoin

Beijing isn't going to allow crypto exchanges to directly operate BTC in China, but there might be a way that Hong Kong crypto ETFs can be traded in the mainland.

Yifan He, CEO of Red Date technology. (CoinDesk, Personae Digital)

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Consensus EasyA Hackathon Winners: AI Agents, Gaming, Trading, Payments, NFT Platforms

Hackathon for Consensus Hong Kong brought out some of the most innovative the early stage projects that could drive the Web3 world forward.

Consensus HK EasyA Hackathon (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)