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Markets

Ether Holds Near $1.9K as Shanghai Fork Approaches

ETH’s price slid 1.5% on Thursday, the day after reaching its nine-month high. The Ethereum upgrade is expected to occur April 12.

Ether's price chart showed the cryptocurrency retreated below $1,900 on Thursday. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Ether Circles Above $1.9K as Shanghai Hard Fork Nears

Liquid staking tokens also rise on Wednesday. Bitcoin holds steady above $28,000.

Ethereum is due for a major software upgrade later this month. (DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

M11 Credit Resumes Crypto Lending on Maple Finance After FTX-Spurred Pause

The firm introduced an upgraded credit underwriting process and appointed a new head of credit. The developments came after M11 Credit suffered $36 million of loan defaults on lending protocol Maple Finance following FTX’s November collapse.

Lending money handing over paying cash (Shutterstock)

Markets

Crypto Funds’ Bitcoin Holdings Rise as Investor Demand Rebounds

Fund managers have added about 4,000 bitcoins in recent weeks.

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Consensus Magazine

Magdalena Kala: How I Invest in Web3

“Every non-sleeping, non-exercising hour I’m working on this, because that’s what I think about.”

(Ian Suarez/CoinDesk)

Markets

Real-World Tokenization Is Surging as TradFi Grows More Receptive to Blockchain

A number of banks and other big brands want to bring more efficiency to their transactions.

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Opinion

Bitcoin and the Changing Definition of 'Safety'

When supposedly safe investments like bonds and stocks underperform, what does that mean for our view of apparently risky investments like bitcoin? Noelle Acheson offers her thoughts.

(Ümit Yıldırım/Unsplash)

Markets

South Korean Traders Are Jumping on SXP, ICX Tokens

Trading volumes and prices for the two tokens have surged in the past few days on local exchanges.

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Markets

Bitcoin Drops to $27.5K While Dogecoin Spikes After Twitter Logo Change

BTC needs a catalyst to break the $30,000 threshold, says an analyst. DOGE spikes after Twitter changes its platform's logo to the dogecoin symbol from the blue bird.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Market March Roundup: Bitcoin Rises Amid Banking Uncertainties, Macro Headwinds

The largest crypto by market value soared 21%. Mask Network’s MASK surged more than 68%, to rank as March's top-performing token, while XRP rose 41%.

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