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Crypto · past 7 days

Digital assets beyond the price chart: protocols and upgrades, stablecoins and the money layer, exploits and their root causes, and the regulation shaping where the industry can operate.

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Bitcoin holds above $84,000 as oil falls, despite more than $600 million of fund outflows last week

Gold rose about 0.2% to near $4,200 an ounce. Market reports tied bitcoin's gain to easing energy risk and gold's gain to continuing Middle East risk.

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Gold Rises 1.8% to About $4,183 While Bitcoin Slips Toward $82,800

Bitcoin fell to about $80,000 on Thursday as bonds and oil came under pressure, and the US Treasury says it has seized about $1 billion in Iranian crypto.

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Bessent Says the US Will Freeze $1 Billion in Iranian Crypto as Russians Open 220,000 Digital-Ruble Accounts

Bitcoin held near $82,600 and gained less on Friday than gold or silver, while both governments extended their control over digital money.

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Bitcoin falls below $83,000 as oil and Treasury yields rise on the Iran strike report

Gold edged higher in the same Asian session, while a Charles Schwab survey found US crypto holders still plan to add to their positions over the next year.

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Cardano gives token issuers power to freeze and seize assets as a second Ethereum layer-2 network shuts within a week

Bitcoin fell about 1.7% to the mid-$80,000s on the same day gold rose, and the European Central Bank kept promoting a digital euro and tokenised money.

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Bitcoin fails to break $87,000 for a third time and falls to about $85,600 while the Nasdaq closes at a record

The cryptocurrency trades about 32% below the $126,080 peak it reached one year ago today, even as the Solana Foundation and Coinbase roll out new products for institutional trading and custody.

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OKX and Intercontinental Exchange Seek SEC Approval to Trade Tokenized Shares of 63 NYSE Companies Around the Clock

The joint venture, OKXICE, filed under a five-year Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) exemption. The exemption requires tokens to carry real dividends and voting rights, and it lets issuers opt out.

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