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Bitcoin Drops Below $22K as Kraken Agreement to Close US Crypto Staking Operations Spooks Investors

The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization declined after the crypto exchange giant agreed to settle charges with the SEC to shutter the service.

Bitcoin price chart showed the cryptocurrency's price drop on Thursday. (CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Miners Surface for Air as Sliding Natural Gas Price Provides Cost Relief

Energy producers finally have incentives to work with bitcoin miners.

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First Mover Americas: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Suggests SEC Could Ban Staking

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Feb. 9, 2023.

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Crypto Markets Analysis: Ether Pulls Even With Bitcoin in Year-to-Date Performance

BTC had been outperforming ETH, but the spread between the two largest cryptocurrencies has now evaporated as the ether supply continues to decline.

Bitcoin and ether's gains this year are now roughly neck and neck. (Ralfs Blumbergs/Unsplash)

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Cross-Chain Protocol Stargate Finance’s Token Surges by Double Digits on Trader Joe Partnership

The Stargate DAO also passed a token re-issuance proposal following security concerns tied to an entanglement with Alameda Research; bitcoin and ether trade slightly in the red.

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MakerDAO Contributors Propose First Native Liquidity Market Focused on DAI Stablecoin

The proposed Spark Protocol will leverage MakerDAO’s DAI stablecoin and its crypto assets for liquidity, and would be based on lending protocol Aave’s upgraded smart contract system.

Spark Protocol would be a new liquidity market for lending and borrowing crypto assets focused on DAI. (Dawid Zawila/Unsplash)

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First Mover Americas: The Sandbox Is Up on Saudi Arabia Partnership News

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Feb. 8, 2023.

(Sandbox screenshot, modified by CoinDesk)

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Blockchain-Based Render Network Token Rising After Community Vote for New Burn-and-Mint Model

The utility token of Render Network has jumped 80% over the past seven days following the passage of a new tokenomics model proposal on the network.

Staking crypto (Jay Radhakrishnan/Getty Images)

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Crypto Markets Analysis: Decline in Bitcoin Transfers Underlines Investor Optimism

Declines in net transfer volume suggest investors are holding on to their BTC.

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Bitcoin Favored Over Ether by CME Traders So Far This Year, Arcane Research Report Shows

Open interest in bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has risen while ether’s has declined, according to an Arcane Research report.

(John Gress/Getty Images)

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