3+ hour, 9+ min ago   (95+ words) Speaking on CoinDesk Live at the Ondo Summit in New York City, former House Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry and White House advisor Patrick Witt said a sweeping crypto market structure bill could pass within months. Latest developments: Optimism is…...

4+ hour, 35+ min ago   (654+ words) Morgan Stanley initiated coverage of three publicly traded bitcoin BTC$70,349.45 mining companies on Monday, backing two names tied to data center leasing while taking a more cautious stance on a miner focused on bitcoin exposure. Analyst Stephen Byrd and his…...

6+ hour, 30+ min ago   (398+ words) ENS$5.9240 has decided not to move forward with Namechain, a planned layer-2 rollup, marking another high-profile shift away from the once-dominant narrative that Ethereum's future would be built primarily on L2s. Instead of launching its own rollup, ENS will now deploy…...

6+ hour, 40+ min ago   (213+ words) Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) added to its ether ETH$2,050.18 holdings amid last week's crypto crash, bringing its stack to more than 4.3 million tokens worth about $8.7 billion at the current price just above $2,000. Led by Chairman Tom Lee, the company, which…...

8+ hour, 14+ min ago   (149+ words) Strategy (MSTR) added to its bitcoin BTC$68,672.38 holdings, but appears to have made all its purchases before the deep price plunge in the back half of the week. Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company added 1,142 bitcoin for $90 million,…...

8+ hour, 23+ min ago   (396+ words) By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin BTC$70,411.45 has retreated by nearly 2.5% in the past 24 hours after failing to hold onto gains made during an end-of-week bounce that pushed it back up to $71,000. The pullback followed a…...

8+ hour, 40+ min ago   (549+ words) Understanding Proof-of-Work, Proof-of-Stake and Tokens'CoinDesk Understanding Proof-of-Work, Proof-of-Stake and Tokens When navigating the world of crypto for clients, it's crucial to understand these terms and methods. As we navigate the complex world of cryptocurrency for our clients, it's especially important…...

9+ hour, 38+ min ago   (449+ words) Saksham Diwan is a research analyst at CoinDesk with five years of experience in the digital assets industry. Saksham has spent most of his career on the buy side, initially as an investment analyst at Aaro Capital, a crypto fund…...

10+ hour, 16+ min ago   (196+ words) MegaETH, a high-performance blockchain built to make Ethereum applications feel nearly instant, debuted its public mainnet Monday, entering an ecosystem mired in a fundamental debate over how Ethereum should scale. The project, which had pitched itself as a layer-2 "real-time…...

10+ hour, 24+ min ago   (336+ words) Bitcoin's BTC$68,839.30 mining difficulty dropped by around 11%, its largest decline since China's 2021 crackdown on the industry, after a sharp decline in hashrate triggered by plunging prices and widespread winter storm-related outages in the U.S. Mining difficulty, which determines how hard it…...