CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2571.75, down 3.3% (-88.79) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. None of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: APT (-0.2%) and BCH (-0.7%). Laggards: LTC (-5.6%) and FIL … Read more
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In case you haven’t looked, it’s Tuesday. For bitcoin traders, that could mean some big price swings. According to Amberdata, Tuesdays have been the most volatile day of the week thus far in 2025, particularly over the past month, where realized volatility has averaged 82. Realized volatility measures the standard deviation of returns from the … Read more
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BX Digital received regulatory approval from the Swiss markets regulator to operate a digital asset trading and settlement platform, becoming the first of its kind in the country, it said. The license from the Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) allows the Zurich-based company to function as a distributed ledger technology (DLT) trading facility, streamlining transactions … Read more
The private bank’s new service allows customers to access up to $1 million in Bitcoin-backed debt.
The Sandbox will feature Jurassic World, The Smurfs, and Terminator experiences in a six-week long season built using a new game creator.
Google on Tuesday announced new products and features aimed at healthcare use cases, including improved overviews in Google Search for health queries, medical records APIs, and new health-focused “open” AI models. In Search, Google says it’s using AI and ranking systems to expand “knowledge panel” answers on thousands of health-related topics, and adding support for … Read more
During a health-focused event in New York on Tuesday, Google announced that it’s developing a collection of “open” AI models for drug discovery called TxGemma. The AI models, which Google said will be released through its Health AI Developer Foundations program later this month, can understand both “regular text” and the structures of different “therapeutic … Read more
A new iOS social wellness app called Exist wants to help middle-aged consumers connect and build meaningful communities with one another as they navigate their lives and the stresses that come with it. The app describes itself as the edgier cousin of Calm or Headspace, and its main feature is social journaling. The idea behind … Read more
Chat platform WhatsApp said today that it will limit the number of broadcast messages individual users and businesses can send to curb spam on the app. In the coming weeks, the company will start testing limits on individual broadcast messages. Under these limits, WhatsApp will put a monthly limit on the number of broadcasts. While … Read more
Xapo Bank, a global cryptocurrency-friendly bank headquartered in Gibraltar, is betting on crypto lending revival by launching Bitcoin-backed US dollar loans. Qualifying Xapo Bank clients can now access Bitcoin (BTC) loans of up to $1 million, the firm said in an announcement shared with Cointelegraph on March 18. The new lending product is designed for … Read more
The failure of the Wii U has turned out to be a big win for the Switch. While Nintendoâs previous console was its worst selling, it was still home to some of its most inventive games. Over the years, Nintendo has steadily brought many of them â ranging from Captain Toad puzzles to various Donkey … Read more
Artificial intelligence (AI)-focused blockchain protocol Halliday said it raised $20 million to help fund development of its Agentic Workflow Protocol (AWP), which aims to speed development of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and avoid the need for programmers to write smart contracts. The Series A funding round was led by venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) … Read more
Solana infrastructure project Jito on Tuesday claimed its protocol’s flagship token, JitoSOL, is not a security. That a crypto project would believe such a thing of its $2.4 billion asset is hardly surprising. More interesting: the very public method with which Jito delivered its opinion. Jito Foundation’s new “Securities Classification Report” explains in 24 footnoted … Read more
Xapo Bank, a wealth manager for long-term holders of bitcoin, said it is offering its members BTC-backed loans of up to $1 million. Crypto lending became something of a bête noire in recent years following a series of high profile collapses and bankruptcies that shook the crypto industry. But crypto-backed loans are now making a … Read more
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So-called “vibe coding” with LLM-driven tools like Cursor Composer — a term coined by renowned computer scientist Andrej Karpathy — describes a hands-off approach to writing code using Gen AI models, and it has really taken off recently. According to Y Combinator, one quarter of the startups in its latest batch relies on AI to … Read more
The crypto industry is expected to join the financial mainstream in the U.S. as the regulatory environment improves, and Coinbase (COIN) is well positioned to benefit from these tailwinds, broker Bernstein said in a report Monday. Bernstein initiated coverage of the crypto exchange with an outperform rating and a $310 price target. The shares dropped … Read more
Soft2Bet, a leading B2B solutions provider, announced a transformative collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that significantly enhances its product development capabilities and user gaming experiences. By migrating its operations and data management to AWS, Soft2Bet has optimised infrastructure, cut compute costs by 55%, and boosted time to market by 200%, all while delivering smoother, … Read more
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Wiz is the latest acquisition made to bolster Google’s cloud security provisions — provided the deal gets regulatory approval. | Illustration: The Verge Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has announced its largest-ever acquisition, entering into a deal to buy New York-based cybersecurity firm Wiz, making it a part of its Google Cloud division. This is the … Read more
The crypto market was little changed-to-lower on Tuesday, with dogecoin (DOGE) and XRP leading declines among major tokens with losses of just over 3% in the past 24 hours. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20), a measure of the broader crypto market, fell 2%. The lack of volatility comes as bitcoin (BTC) traders largely brace for … Read more