About a year ago, Nikolay Denisenko, a former lead backend engineer at European fintech firm Revolut, began to formalize a process whereby “special customers” of his new crypto payments app, Brighty, ...

BNY, the world’s largest custodial bank, has taken its first major step toward tokenization by offering institutional clients the ability to settle bank deposits on a blockchain. The Wall Street giant ...

A7A5, a ruble-linked stablecoin few outside Russia had heard of a year ago grew the most of any stablecoin, outpacing both ...

Bank of America (BofA) has upgraded Coinbase (COIN) to a "buy" rating, pointing to the exchange's growing ambitions beyond crypto trading and its increasingly diversified business model. In a research ...

Polygon, an Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain designed to achieve faster transaction speeds and lower fees, is close to acquiring Coinme, one of the first U.S. bitcoin ATM kiosk providers, according to two ...

Polygon Labs unveiled the Open Money Stack, a new modular framework intended to support stablecoin-based payments and streamline cross-border value transfers. The stack, which is expected to launch ...

U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded their first net outflow day since listing in mid-November, ending what had been the cleanest inflow streak among major crypto funds. The funds ...

The Optimism Foundation is proposing a new mechanism to tie the OP token more closely to the growth of its Superchain ecosystem, unveiling plans to use 50% of Superchain revenue to repurchase OP ...

Banking giant JPMorgan wants to build its own "regulated, interoperable digital money" that can move near-instantly and securely across financial markets, a spokesperson for the bank told CoinDesk.

Digital assets are set to cross a critical threshold in 2026, shifting from largely speculative instruments into practical financial infrastructure as regulation matures and traditional institutions ...

As surveillance on public blockchains expands, analysts say privacy is shifting from ideology to utility, helping fuel gains ...

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 ...