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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Market Wrap: Cryptos, Stocks Tumble Amid Extreme Bearish Sentiment

BTC dropped by as much as 11% over the past 24 hours while several altcoins underperformed.

Mercado bajista —bear market, en inglés— de cripto. (Olen Gandy, Unsplash)

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Bitcoin Funds Had Surprise Inflows as Markets Plunged

Some $45 million flowed into these funds in the week through May 6. Investors apparently bought the market dip.

Digital-asset funds had $40 million in net inflows in the seven days through May 9. (CoinShares)

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Crypto Mortgages: How You Can Buy a House Using a Crypto-Backed Loan

Digital asset-backed mortgages let house buyers use their crypto holdings as collateral.

Crypto mortgages let the crypto rich leverage their cryptocurrency holdings to buy real estate without cashing out (Unspash, modified by CoinDesk).

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'Revolution' Promised by Tron's Justin Sun Looks Like Clone of Terra's Algorithmic Stablecoin

Tron, an Ethereum competitor blockchain, is the latest to launch an algorithmic stablecoin inspired by the success of Terra’s UST. It has lofty goals for USDD, but not much else.

(Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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How to Spend Your Crypto Using Bitrefill’s Gift Card Platform

With Bitrefill, you can virtually pay for anything with cryptocurrencies through gift cards. Here’s how it works. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Payments Week.

(Bitrefill, modified by CoinDesk)

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Is Bitcoin Legal?

The legality of your bitcoin activities will depend on where you are and what you are doing with it.

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LUNA Supply Drops to All-Time Low – But Don’t Call It Deflationary

To keep up with the demand for Terra’s UST stablecoin, LUNA tokens are burned to maintain the $1 peg. All things being equal, less supply could help to support the price.

(Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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What Is Yearn? A Guide to the Gateway of Decentralized Finance

Yearn.Finance, a pioneer of decentralized finance, aims to be the “Amazon of DeFi” with automated investments and more than 20% yields. Here’s how it works.

(Chantal Garnier/Unsplash)

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Bailout Fund, Backstop or Bouncy Ball? Here's How LFG's Bitcoin 'Reserve' Might Work

Developers of the fast-growing UST stablecoin say the coin's $1 value peg isn't "backed" by anything – just a blockchain-based algorithm. So why does it need a multibillion-dollar bitcoin reserve in case of an emergency? How would that work?

TerraForm Labs founder and CEO Do Kwon (CoinDesk TV, modified by CoinDesk)

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Terraform Labs Gives $820M in LUNA Tokens to Luna Foundation Guard

LFG's reserves now stand at about $2.4 billion.

Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon on CoinDesk TV in December.