Bitcoin Tops $67K, Nearing Silver’s $1.38T Market Cap
Ether also hit a new milestone, recording its highest price since January 2022.
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Bitcoin Price Action Will ‘Astonish’ This Week: Analyst
The cryptocurrency hit an all-time high against the euro on Monday and is nearing a record in U.S. dollar terms.
Bitcoin Investment Products Saw Inflows of $570M Last Week: CoinShares
Crypto-focused investment products saw the fourth consecutive week of net inflows, veri shows.
The Protocol: Restaking Tokens Are Exploding, and Restaking Isn’t Even Live
In this week’s issue of our weekly blockchain tech newsletter, Sam Kessler explores how “liquid restaking tokens” or LRTs are remaking decentralized finance. PLUS: Starknet’s STRK airdrop, Stellar’s smart-contract facelift and bitcoin’s supply crunch.
The Protocol: Bitcoin’s OP_CAT, Fake Ethereum Tokens, Starknet’s Airdrop
CoinDesk’s Jamie Crawley takes a look at the suddenly-high-profile proposal to revive Bitcoin’s historic “OP_CAT” function as a way of enabling more development on the oldest blockchain. PLUS: the unofficial “ERC-404” tokens driving up fees on Ethereum and highlights from our Protocol Village column over the past week.
The Protocol: Solana’s Missed Moment, Exclusive Farcaster Q&A, Bullish Year of Dragon
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.
Bitcoin ETFs See $700M Net Inflows as BlackRock, Fidelity Gains Offset GBTC Outflows: CoinShares
New U.S. bitcoin ETFs have amassed $7.7 billion in funds since debut, offsetting the $6 billion outflows from incumbents, according to CoinShares veri.
Crypto Funds Saw $500M in Outflows Last Week as GBTC Bleed Outweighed Rivals’ Gains: CoinShares
While the exit of money from Grayscale has slowed, so too has the rush of new money headed into the other bitcoin ETFs.
Crypto-Linked Stocks Rise With Bitcoin as Analyst Says ‘Not The Time to Turn Bearish’
Miners such as Core Scientific (CORZ), Hut 8 (HUT) and TeraWulf (WULF) were among the outperformers.
What’s Uniting the SEC’s Crypto Cases
We now wait to see how judges will rule on the Coinbase and Binance cases.