Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I'm Marc Hochstein, CoinDesk's deputy editor-in-chief for features, opinion and standards. IN THIS ISSUE: Ethereum's blob mob Staking on Starknet Avalanche's big upgrade L2 teams beam over Beam Chain Sui suffers a brief outage [...]
Bitcoin saw explosive growth immediately after the recent U.S. presidential elections, rising and retaking the spotlight from former highs of $73,000 in March. Now the question is, will bitcoin (BTC) continue its uptrend, and at what point can a sharp reversal happen? If we take a look at former BTC [...]
The bitcoin (BTC) bull market has further to run, and the world's largest cryptocurrency is expected to punch through the $100,000 level in the near term, Galaxy Research said in a note on Tuesday. Galaxy said bitcoin will continue to rise for several reasons. Increasing institutional and corporate adoption, the [...]
Bitcoin (BTC) volatility is back and investors have two choices either embrace the volatility or have no part of it. However, the current bitcoin cycle has been rather muted in terms of realized volatility and drawdowns compared to previous ones. The recent drop from nearly $100,000 to almost $90,000, just [...]
Pantera Capital Management’s Bitcoin Fund just hit a milestone: a 1,000-fold gain in the value of its crypto holdings since launch. Started in 2013 as one of the first investment products exposing customers to crypto, the fund has returned 131,165% after expenses and fees. As noted by founder Dan Morehead [...]
A bitcoin (BTC)-led crypto market correction continued into its third day as the asset lost a further 3.5% in the past 24 hours, nearing $94,000 a week after it came within touching distance of the landmark $100,000 level for the first time. BTC has pared weekly gains from over 10% [...]
What does the ragtag group including a fitness equipment maker, biopharmaceutical company and producer of battery materials have in common? Bitcoin, of course. As the cryptocurrency skyrockets to unheard-of levels this month, at least 12 publicly traded companies that previously had nothing to do with crypto announced they plan to [...]
Bitcoin Development Company MicroStrategy (MSTR) added 55,500 of the largest cryptocurrency for $5.4 billion, bringing its holdings to 386.700 BTC worth nearly $38 billion. The company paid an average $97,862 per bitcoin in thjs latest purchase, according to a statement Monday morning, and the buys took place over the six [...]
The crypto market should see a pick up in volatility at the end of this week, as the monthly (BTC) and ether (ETH) options contracts are set to expire this Friday. This comes a day after the U.S. bank holiday Thanksgiving, giving traders an opportunity to be thankful for a [...]
Howard Lutnick, chairman of Wall Street trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald, is in discussions with Tether's Giancarlo Devasini about Cantor’s multi-billion dollar program that will allow clients to borrow money using bitcoin as collateral, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. First announced in July, the lending initiative will start with [...]
