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Finance

Circle’s IPO Filing Tests Crypto Market Confidence After Trump’s Tariff Shock

Circle’s long-awaited IPO filing reignites hopes for crypto listings, but shaky markets and weak financials raise doubts.

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Tech

EigenLayer Finally Ready to Launch Crucial Missing Feature

Slashing could allow the restaking pioneer to make good on its "shared security" promise.

EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan

Markets

Bitcoin Begins to Decouple From Nasdaq as U.S. Stocks Crumble

Is the long-awaited "decoupling" finally here? Bitcoin bulls hope so.

Bitcoin begins to go its own direction as stocks tumble (Caleb Jones/Unsplash)

News Analysis

CoinDesk Weekly Recap: Bitcoin Holds Steady Amid Market Turmoil

The markets are terrible but the crypto industry continues building for the future.

Jeremy Allaire Circle CEO (The Washington Post / Getty Images)

Tech

Crypto-to-Fiat App P2P.me Raises $2M from Multicoin and Coinbase Ventures

The peer-to-peer app is bringing stablecoin payments into the QR code economy.

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Markets

Gold-Backed Cryptocurrencies Retreat From All-Time Highs Amid Stock-Market Rout

The precious metal initially rallied after Trump unveiled reciprocal tariffs, but has since joined the wider market sell-off.

Gold bar (Scottsdale mint/Unsplash)

Markets

Jerome Powell Makes No Promise to Ease Policy; Fed to Stay Focused on Inflation

The Fed chair spoke Friday with markets in full blown panic following the Trump tariff announcement.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Opinion

Two Roads Diverged: Choosing the Right Path on Stablecoin Legislation

Privileging U.S.-based stablecoin issuers over issuers abroad is shortsighted and will stifle innovation, says MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright.

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Markets

Riot Platforms Hits Post-Halving Bitcoin Production High as It Expands AI Capacity

Feasibility study confirms Corsicana Facility’s potential for AI/HPC growth as Riot delivers strong mining performance in March 2025.

A 30MW mining facility (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Opinion

A Blueprint for Digital Assets in America

The chairmen of the House Financial Services and Agriculture Committees outline six principles to guide digital assets legislation.

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Policy

OKX Fined $1.2M by Malta for Breaching Money Laundering Rules

The company was expected to assess the nature of risks prevalent in the services it was offering, the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit said in a notice.

Malta, Valletta (Micaela Parente/ Unsplash)

CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Filecoin (FIL) Gains 2.3% as Index Trades Flat

Polygon (POL) was also a top performer, gaining 1.4% from Thursday.

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Markets

GameStop CEO Cohen Buys $10M of GME Shares Following Bitcoin Acquisition Plan

The company earlier this week closed on a $1.5 billion capital raise, with the funds to be mostly used to buy bitcoin.

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Markets

Cardano Foundation Targets $1.7B Data Breach Threat With New Privacy Tools

Alongside new platform, the foundation also launching the Veridian Wallet, a tool designed to keep personal info secure and let users prove who they are online without the usual hassles.

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Finance

Creators of DeFi Firm Aave Launch Social Media Developer Network Lens Chain

Lens Chain mainnet goes live using an inexpensive Ethereum overlay blockchain designed for building decentralized social media applications.

Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave, speaks at Consensus 2019.

Markets

U.S. March Jobs Growth of 228K Blows Through 135K Forecast

Bitcoin has been showing very faint signs of resilience as markets tumble in response to tariffs.

The U.S. released January jobs numbers Friday morning (Ernie Journeys/Unsplash)