Archives for October 14, 2026

Earlier this year the president and leaders of many of the biggest technology companies agreed upon that principle through the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI committed to covering the costs of new power generation required for their data centers. In July, the White House announced an expansion bringing over […]

Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, said it agreed to acquire Lithuania-based Saldo Bank for an undisclosed amount, giving it a European Union (EU) banking license as it expands beyond crypto trading into traditional financial services. The acquisition will make Payward the first crypto firm to buy a bank in Europe, according to […]

U.S. inflation sped up more than expected in September, perhaps putting multiple Federal Reserve rate hikes back into play. The September Consumer Price Index rose 0.6%, according to a Wednesday morning report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s up from 0.4% in August, and in line with economist forecasts for 0.6%. On a year-over-year […]

U.S. inflation is due at 8:30 a.m. ET. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones estimated September’s consumer price index rose 0.6% month-on-month and 3.6% year-on-year. Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, is forecast to increase 0.2% from August and 2.5% annually. The numbers are widely watched for cues on how the Federal Reserve […]

Under MiCA, all EMTs are stablecoins, but not all stablecoins are EMTs, as the U.K. parliament has explained. EMTs are pegged to a single official currency, such as the euro or U.S. dollar, while other types of stablecoins can be linked to baskets of currencies or other assets. EMTs must be issued by authorized credit […]

Bitcoin BTC$83,392.00 was trading around $83,450 in the European morning after briefly spiking to $84,000 at 08:00 UTC, having bounced from a low of $80,970 on Tuesday. Altcoins struggled to follow, with the CoinDesk 80 falling 0.6% since midnight UTC while the CoinDesk 20 added 0.2%, leaving close to two-thirds of the CoinDesk 100’s members […]

Trading around the clock is the draw. “Hyperliquid has become the best venue for trading these markets outside exchange hours,” Sylvestre said. Hypercall’s exchange’s market makers, the firms that quote prices, “hedge on Hyperliquid’s perpetual futures, including on weekends when the cash equity market is closed,” Sylvestre said. Earnings, economic data and company news can […]

U.S. inflation sped up more than expected in September, perhaps putting multiple Federal Reserve rate hikes back into play. The September Consumer Price Index rose 0.6%, according to a Wednesday morning report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s up from 0.4% in August, and in line with economist forecasts for 0.6%. On a year-over-year […]

Francois Volpoet, Chainalysis’ CEO for France, warned that the measure could undermine efforts to bring more crypto transactions into the regulated financial system. “Do we want more taxpayers to declare their assets, or a higher tax rate applied to a base that is increasingly evaded?” Volpoet said in an email to CoinDesk. He said authorities […]

Standard Chartered (STAN) introduced a crypto trading service for affluent clients in the United Arab Emirates, allowing eligible investors to buy and sell bitcoin BTC$83,478.64 and ether ETH$2,499.79 through their existing bank accounts. The service will initially be available to clients classified as professional investors, and the London-based lender said it is the first of […]