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BTC broke above $44,000 for the first time since Jan. 12, the day after the spot ETF debuts.

Rug Radio creator Benjamin White digs into the rise of Farcaster, the decentralized social media platform that's challenging Twitter following the launch of its Frames feature. Is this the decentralized social media app that finally clicks with the masses?

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The subsidiary of Japanese Monex Group had already said it would cease providing services in the United States.

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The controversial coin is up again. But over the past week—and month—it is still hurting.

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Having a body, the researchers argue, will allow AI to understand action, memory, and experience better.

Bitcoin Ordinals 30-day sales volume dropped from $868 million in December 2023 to $335 million in January.

Even in a slow week ahead of the Chinese New Year, there's a lot of crypto news to cover. Here's this week's The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly newsletter devoted to blockchain tech.

The metaverse craze has passed, but use cases in healthcare, commerce and education should not be dominated by powerful private interests, a new BIS study argues.

DEGEN, the first meme coin to take off on crypto social media protocol Farcaster, has an upcoming airdrop. Here's how to earn a share.

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All but one of the recently launched spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) charge a lower fee than the largest gold ETF, making them a cheaper investment into a gold-like asset.

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Will Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kiss? Will they get engaged? Will she play hooky? Crypto degens are placing their Super Bowl bets.

MicroStrategy (MSTR), the software firm whose executive chairman is bitcoin maximalist Michael Saylor, reported weaker-than-expected fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, but the majority of its conference call presentation focused on the crypto.

The updated S-1 document brings the spot Ethereum ETF application more "in line" with the recently approved spot BTC ETF prospectus, one analyst noted.

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January saw higher spot trading volume on centralized exchanges amid the approval of spot bitcoin ETFs in the U.S.

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The exchange reportedly used Telegram influencers to promote its crypto services to South Korean users.

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The upgrade, which promises to solve scalability issues, will hit the mainnet in the next few weeks.

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Bitcoin’s price-bound price action could reach a breaking point if the sharp drop in U.S. regional bank stocks intensifies. How might altcoins react?

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According to Jim Albrecht, large language models pose an existential threat to journalists and the global news industry.

Everyone likes getting something for nothing, but distributing tokens is only worthwhile if it also attracts longterm builders and users rather than just momentary buzz.

The underlying tokenized asset is a call warrant option on shares of Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi.

As with most conferences, SEG3 Los Angeles was buzzing with talk of artificial intelligence and its impact on media makers.

“Tokenization” — the biggest buzzword in crypto markets currently — means not just bringing new digital assets on-chains, but, in the future, originating and settling them on-chain as well.

Following the success of Tether and USDC, a generation of stablecoins are offering new features for investors and holders, says Scott Sunshine, Managing Partner of Blue Dot Advisors.

Immutable zkEVM game Shardbound is launching a limited playtest this month, and you can be one of the 2,000 players given access.

The lack of selling pressure from miners will be one of the main catalysts boosting ETH's price to unprecedented highs in the current bull cycle.

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Former CEO Jamie Leverton is succeeded by president Asher Genoot.

The U.S. government pointed to potential conflicts of interest between the two crypto CEOs’ cases but added the judges could approve waiving them after a hearing.

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