Krisztian Sandor

Krisztian Sandor is a U.S. markets reporter focusing on stablecoins, tokenization, real-world assets. He graduated from New York University's business and economic reporting program before joining CoinDesk. He holds BTC, SOL and ETH.

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Markets

Bitcoin Dips Below $98K as Strong U.S. Economic Data Leads to $300M of Crypto Liquidations

Stronger-than-expected job openings and ISM Services PMI rolled back investor expectations for further rate cuts for this year.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on 01 07 (CoinDesk)

Tech

Ripple Aims to Boost RLUSD Stablecoin's DeFi Utility with Chainlink Standard

Chainlink will provide crucial pricing data for Ripple's U.S. dollar stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Suzanne Cordiero/Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin Returns Above $100K as Early 2025 Crypto Rebound Continues

Altcoin majors, including ether and solana, also rose sharply as U.S. markets opened on the first full week after holidays, with the broad-based CoinDesk 20 advancing 3.5% through the day.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on 01 06 (CoinDesk)

Markets

DeFi Protocol Usual's Surge Catapults Hashnote's Tokenized Treasury Over BlackRock's BUIDL

Hashnote's USYC is the primary backing asset of the red-hot decentralized finance protocol Usual, whose USD0 stablecoin zoomed over $1 billion market capitalization in a few months.

(Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino Teases AI Platform Targeting Early 2025 Debut

The company, known for its $140 billion U.S. dollar stablecoin USDT, has made significant efforts to expand beyond its stablecoin operations this year.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

Markets

Bitcoin Dips Below $96K While CoinDesk 20 Plunges 10% Amid Fed-Spurred Rout; SOL Surrenders Post-Election Rally

Fed Chair Jerome Powell's hawkish comments Wednesday on rate cuts have rattled investors across asset classes.

CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index on Dec. 19 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Slips to $101K, Altcoins Spiraling on Federal Reserve's Hawkish Tone

The Federal Reserve cut rates by 25 basis points as expected, but Fed Chair Jerome Powell's hawkish press conference

Fed Chair Jerome Powell (House Financial Services Committee)

Finance

RWA-Focused Network Plume Raises $20M from Brevan Howard and Others Ahead of Mainnet Launch

The platform has brought over $4 billion of traditional assets on-chain, ranging from renewable energy projects to mineral rights and private credit.

Plume co-founders Eugene Shen, Chris Yin and Teddy Pornprinya (Plume)

Finance

Tether Invests in MiCA-Compliant Stablecoin Issuer StablR

The crypto company behind USDT, the largest stablecoin, decided to shutter its own euro-pegged stablecoin and back smaller issuers that comply with the EU's MiCA regulations.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

Finance

Ripple to Roll Out RLUSD Stablecoin on Dec. 17, Adds Former Central Bankers to Advisory Board

The stablecoin will become broadly available to crypto users on the XRP Ledger and Ethereum networks beginning on Tuesday.

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)