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CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2039.71, up 0.2% (+4.1) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday.Fourteen of 20 assets are trading higher.Leaders: APT (+6.3%) and BCH (+2.5%).Laggards: AAVE (-1.0%) and NEAR (-0.6%).The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.#Aptos #APT #gains #index #rises
March 20th, 2026 – Panama City, Panama METAWIN Raises $350,000 in Hours as First Two Tranches Sell Out – Sub-10c Pricing Closes Today! Less than 12 hours after launch, the METAWIN community token presale has raised $350,000 and sold out its first two tranches entirely. The raise happened in a matter of hours – a signal of the depth of demand that has been building across a 440,000-wallet community for four years. Today is the last opportunity to participate at a presale price below $0.10. When the current tranche closes, the next one opens at a higher price point. The…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Historically, there have been similarities between past Bitcoin cycles when it comes to both the bull and the bear markets. A lot of these have to do with the percentage by which the price rises, and then the percentage by which the price begins to crash. Naturally, the expectation has become that the bitcoin price will also follow the previous cycle, leading to calls for much lower prices. But could there be a deviation this time around? Bitcoin Will See Another Major Crash, But How Low? Analyst…
By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)Bitcoin BTC$70,758.90 has stabilized above $70,000. Its relative strength is noteworthy given the selloff over the week, which saw it drop from over $75,000.Most assets saw sharp downturns over the period as the conflict in Iran escalated, damaging vital energy infrastructure. A hotter-than-expected February U.S. PPI print compounded the effect.Traditional havens, including gold and silver, also tumbled while Brent crude surged above $110 a barrel owing to supply disruptions caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.The Fed didn’t help. While the U.S. central bank held interest rates steady on Wednesday,…
A new Android banking trojan that uses a mix of human and artificial intelligence agents to steal from victims is now targeting a payments system relied on by tens of millions of people. According to cybersecurity firm Zimperium, the PixRevolution banking malware is targeting users of Brazil’s PIX payment system by first surveilling them in real-time and then draining their funds when they initiate transactions. Per Zimperium, PixRevolution banking malware drains funds in a five-step process that includes monitoring for victims to initiate PIX payments. Upon detecting an imminent PIX transaction, the malware notifies its command and control server, which…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure On-chain data shows Pepe is among the cryptocurrencies that have seen the largest week-over-week increases in the Whale Transaction Count. Pepe Whale Transaction Count Has Witnessed A 61% Jump In a new post on X, on-chain analytics firm Santiment has shared the top 10 list of digital assets that have seen the largest jumps in the Whale Transaction Count over the past week. The Whale Transaction Count here refers to an indicator that keeps track of the total number of transfers occurring on a given network that…
Crypto markets were little changed Friday, with the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) virtually unchanged. Bitcoin BTC$70,612.77 has gained just 0.8% since midnight UTC and ether (ETH) added less than 0.1%.Crude oil prices dropped below $100 on Thursday and were recently trading at $96 per barrel as the U.S. was said to be assessing whether it should release sanctioned Iranian oil to increase supply and reduce pressure on prices.This gave a momentary boost to risk assets with U.S. equities showing signs of recovery, but that move has now reversed. Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 futures are down by 0.6% and 0.4%,…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, is launching the Spiko Amundi Overnight Swap Fund (SAFO), a tokenized fund on Ethereum and Stellar starting with about $100 million in committed assets. A Traditional Fund With A Tokenized Wrapper Institutions historically related to TradFi have found a way to not to be left behind on the crypto curve in tokenized assets. In a statement published on Amundi’s website, the investment fund announced its collaboration with Spiko, a French-law regulated specialist tokenization platform, to launch SAFO as a tokenized sub-fund of…
Browser marker Opera (OPRA) wants to replace its cash-based deal with Celo with a 160 million CELO token allocation, a move that would make the browser company a major stakeholder in the payments network if token holders approve it.The proposal, submitted to Celo’s governance forum, would swap a quarterly U.S. dollar grant for a three-year token award. Using the roughly 600 million CELO now in circulation according to CoinMarketCap data, the proposed allocation equals about 27% of circulating supply.It also represents 16% of the token’s 1 billion maximum supply. CELO is at the time of writing trading at $0.07, down…
Nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars has been added to the US national debt in less than three weeks. According to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Debt to the Penny dataset, the total US national debt jumped by approximately $246.96 billion between February 28th and March 17th. The debt increase represents approximately 49% of the $502.75 billion borrowed by the US government so far this year. The total US national debt, which has risen approximately 15% year-to-date, now stands at $39.02 trillion. The rapid increase in the US national debt coincides with a former deputy director of the International Monetary…