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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — “The market is the market … it’s not crypto and traditional anymore,” Dave LaValle, president of CoinDesk Index and Data, told the Consensus Conference in Miami on Tuesday, capturing a shift echoed among issuers and asset managers. With the influx of traditional financial firms, Direxion’s Douglas Yones sees institutional involvement as…
Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood’s senior vice president and general manager of cryptocurrencies, said during a fireside chat at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami that global demand for U.S. stocks is rising, prompting investors to look beyond the domestic market. “We’re seeing a lot of demand from overseas investors for U.S. stocks, particularly companies related to…
Bitcoin Bitcoin$81,505.59 Bitcoin prices topped $81,000 during the Asian session on Tuesday, rising 6.7% for the week, benefiting from broader risk sentiment, with stocks hitting records on receding tensions over Iran and renewed optimism about artificial intelligence, according to CoinDesk market data. Other cryptocurrency majors also participated in the bid. Solana rose 3% to $87.35….
XRP is back above $1.42, with traders beginning to focus on the 2025 chart setup as XRP surges 66% in less than two weeks. news background • Analysts note that the XRP chart fractal is repeating from 2025, when a breakout of a multi-week bull flag sparked a rally to all-time highs above $3. •…
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Tokenized currencies cannot live up to their promise if they remain siled within individual banks, said Ryan Rugg, head of digital assets for treasury and trade solutions at Citigroup. Speaking at the Consensus conference in Miami, Large corporate customers are looking not for a single banking solution but for systems that…
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — After years of experimentation, today’s cryptocurrencies have boiled down to two core uses: transactions and payments. Speaking during a fireside chat at Consensus 2026 in Miami, Dan Romero, Tempo’s head of marketing, said the industry is forming a “barbell” between speculative trading such as the Hyperliquid market on the one hand…
Large traditional financial firms need guardrails in the world of blockchain-based assets, especially given that decentralized finance (DeFi) remains so vulnerable to hacks and losses, the head of digital assets at custodial banking giant State Street said on Tuesday at the Consensus conference in Miami. What’s still fresh in people’s minds is that last month…
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi said cryptocurrency exchanges are “about 80% ready” to go public, underscoring the company’s IPO ambitions as it forges a new partnership with MoneyGram aimed at solving the “last mile” problem for cryptocurrencies. Sethi, who spoke at the Consensus Conference in Miami alongside MoneyGram Chairman and…
For decades, the web ran on a simple deal: Publishers and businesses made information freely accessible, search engines and other crawlers indexed it, and those services sent human traffic back. Websites can then monetize the traffic through advertising, subscriptions, or commerce. But that’s all changing quickly, Cloudflare chief strategy officer Stephanie Cohen told the CoinDesk…
The right voices in the right rooms can reshape products, policies and hiring outcomes in the cryptocurrency space, three executives said Tuesday at the CoinDesk Consensus Conference in Miami. Each cited a moment in their own organization when an outside perspective changed what was being built, debated, or prioritized. Maja Lapcevic, senior vice president of…