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Both cryptocurrency and equities markets slipped on hotter-than-expected jobs data on Friday, before quickly recovering

World’s largest asset manager owned 7.2% stake in crypto bank, while one of the largest custody banks owns even more of the stock

Smaller cryptoassets largely act as high-beta alternatives to ether and their prices have been positively correlated with ETH performance in recent weeks

Crypto’s best-performing ETF this year, VanEck’s Digital Transformation ETF, is up 67% compared to AI’s top performer, Direxion Daily Robotics’s Index, at 32%

Meta, led by metaverse-obsessed CEO Mark Zuckerberg has released its earnings for 2022’s fourth quarter, and it doesn’t look good

The central bank raised interest rates by 25 basis points — that’s not surprising — but all eyes are on the subtext

Trade volumes for Russian ruble and Ukrainian hryvnia pairs spiked at critical points throughout the conflict — especially when fiat was threatened

One month into 2023, its share price has continued its stiff downtrend in the face of skepticism stemming from poor quarterly earnings

While not a definitive indicator of market sentiment, open interest in futures markets can help shape expectations around the forward price of an underlying asset

Dallas Mavericks and owner Mark Cuban have asked the court to move the Voyager-related suit to the Northern District of Texas

A former pro at the US Department of Treasury and Department of Homeland Security is among Anchorage Digital Bank’s new recruits

If Powell and the committee signal a forthcoming pause in interest rate hikes, markets will react favorably, but a hawkish stance will likely send shares plummeting again

Lake Parime, which hosted bitcoin miner Marathon Digital at a nuclear energy-powered site in Ohio, has been sold to Statar Mining after a “cash crisis”

Court-appointed examiner Shoba Pillay didn’t establish whether Celsius was a Ponzi scheme, but details instances that show it might as well have been one

Twitter’s director of product management is reportedly designing the software needed to implement Musk’s payments vision with a small team

Deal count eclipses 200 for the first time, though value of crypto acquisitions about a third of what it was in 2021

Bitcoin and ether lost close to 3% and 4%, respectively, ahead of the Fed’s rate decision

APT entered a period of consolidation on Jan. 26 and has been rangebound since, but its meteoric rise has puzzled many analysts

Analysts say USDT growth resembles similar periods in 2019 and 2020 which coincided with bitcoin bull markets

Share prices of US-traded crypto mining firms finished the week higher on Friday, bolstered by short-term risk-on trader sentiment for digital assets

A crypto exchange that previously told Blockworks it planned to advertise during the NFL’s biggest game has changed its mind

Buying the dip on company stock was the right move for insiders, but those who sold the local bottom have left millions on the table

Shorting positions and the South Korean crypto market might hold some answers to the token’s spike
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