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DeFi Value on Terra Surges to Record $21B as LUNA Tops $100

Thursday’s dip to $85 for LUNA tokens was erased overnight.

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Market Wrap Year In Review: Remembering Bitcoin’s FUD-Fueled Crash

As crypto markets moved through April and May, many buyers began to cash out as fear, uncertainty and doubt (”FUD”) overwhelmed traders. Concerns included U.S. capital gains taxes on digital assets, bitcoin’s environmental footprint and an outright ban on crypto mining in China.

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NEAR Token Jumps Over 20% After UST Integration

Tokens of the layer 1 blockchain are up 23% after Terra said its UST stablecoins would be supported on the network.

A Near sign in Lisbon, Portugal (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)

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Floki Inu Deposits on Inverse Finance Break $44M Within Hours

Projects founded as meme coins don’t want to remain mere meme coins anymore.

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Shiba Inu Spikes as Whales Add to Existing Positions

A single wallet purchased nearly $134 million worth of shiba inu tokens, wallet trackers show.

A lot of shiba inus (Pixabay)

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Bitcoin Limited to $50K-$55K Resistance as Momentum Slows

Short-term buying could be limited given negative momentum on the weekly chart.

Bitcoin weekly price chart (Damanick Dantes/CoinDesk, TradingView)

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Bitcoin Slides Toward $46K, Dropping Alongside US Stock Market

Bitcoin’s hopes for a powerful year-end rally toward $100,000 are fading.

Bitcoin price chart over the past week. (CoinDesk)

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Fed Speeds Up Stimulus Withdrawal, and Bitcoin Jumps

The Fed will reduce its bond purchases by $30 billion every month to wind them down early next year, doubling from the current pace of withdrawal of $15 billion every month.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks Wednesday at a press conference. (Federal Reserve, modified by CoinDesk)

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Tezos ‘Exchange-Traded Cryptocurrency’ Launches on German Exchange

Altcoin institutional products are on the rise as investors look beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum.

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ConstitutionDAO Tokens (Yes They’re Still Trading) See Wild Session With $9M Liquidations

Market movements got the better of both long and short traders betting on PEOPLE, the native token of Ethereum-based ConstitutionDAO.

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