Archives for September 17, 2026

Importantly, the index is designed not only to provide broader exposure across the crypto market, but also to limit concentration in its largest assets. Bitcoin and ether represent a large share of total crypto market capitalization, meaning a traditional market-cap-weighted index would be dominated by those two assets. The CoinDesk 20 Index addresses that concentration […]

Tom Farley, CEO of CoinDesk owner Bullish, also said the bill’s failure is not an insurmountable hurdle. “Durable legislation would give the digital asset industry greater certainty. But even with legislation, the real work of implementation happens at the agencies, and agencies can move faster,” he said in a post on X. SEC and CFTC rulemaking […]

S&P Global (SPGI) said Thursday it has agreed to buy OpenZeppelin, a smart-contract security firm whose open-source code library is used across much of the stablecoin and tokenized-fund market. S&P said contracts built with the library have moved more than $37 trillion over time. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal gives S&P […]

The regulator explicitly excluded synthetic security tokens that are derivatives and don’t provide ownership of the shares. The SEC only allows tokens that represent real ownership of the underlying stock, which Atkins said “must provide holders with the same rights and privileges as the traditional securities, including rights to receive dividends and exercise voting rights.” […]

Glamsterdam raised its block gas limit from 60 million to 200 million about an hour after going live on the testnet. Gas measures the computing work required by transactions, so the higher ceiling creates room for more payments, token swaps and other activity in each block. How that helps Ethereum A 200 million limit would […]

Leverton most recently led institutional digital-asset manager ReserveOne. She previously served as CEO of bitcoin BTC$76,840.63 miner Hut 8, overseeing its merger with US Bitcoin Corp. and its transition from a Canadian-listed miner into a U.S.-domiciled company with bitcoin mining and high-performance computing operations. Her appointment comes as Fortitude expands its exposure to Zcash, whose […]

Circle’s CRCL$84,87 Arc blockchain went live Wednesday with BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard and DTCC among 11 founding validators, and CEO Jeremy Allaire calling it the most significant launch in the company’s history since USDC itself. The chain processed 7.83 million transactions in its first 24 hours, but almost none of it was payments. Lifetime USDC transfers […]

Cryptocurrencies rallied after the Federal Reserve delivered its first interest-rate increase since July 2023, a counterintuitive reaction given the FOMC decision makes interest-bearing investments more attractive. Bitcoin BTC$76,500.72 added almost 1% over the past 24 hours while zcash (ZEC) jumped by more than 23% to a record high. Traders who remember previous Fed rate cycles, […]

Zcash rose more than 17% to nearly $1,358 as of Asian morning hours Thursday, far ahead of every other major, according to CoinDesk data. Solana and hyperliquid each added about 3%, with BNB, dogecoin and ether up roughly 2%. Bitcoin climbed 1% to just above $76,400, XRP the same, and tron was flat. The Fed […]