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Key takeaways from the Abu Dhabi Finance Week panel conversation in December. At Abu Dhabi Finance Week 2025, conversations on capital efficiency consistently returned to the same question – whether today’s market infrastructure is actually built to support it. On a panel focused on building the rails for tokenized leverage, Redwan Meslem, Executive Director of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, joined leaders from insurance, clearing, custody, and trading to unpack what’s really standing between tokenized collateral and institutional-scale adoption. The conversation quickly moved past whether tokenization matters, and instead focused on how, where, and under what constraints it could be integrated…

Alternative inflation data is pointing to a sharp cooling in US prices, reinforcing the case for interest rate cuts and carrying broader implications for risk assets, including cryptocurrencies.After the Federal Reserve paused rate cuts last week and signaled no clear path to near-term cuts, real-time inflation data suggest policymakers may be out of sync with rapidly improving price conditions.Truflation, an alternative inflation tracker that aggregates millions of daily price points from tens of independent data providers, showed broad-based cooling across its US inflation indexes. As of Sunday, Truflation’s US Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 0.86% year over year, down…

Johnny Ng is not interested in zero-sum crypto politics.As regulators in Washington, Beijing and elsewhere in Asia chart their own paths for digital assets, the Hong Kong legislator is focused on something else entirely: building connective tissue between markets, technologies, and jurisdictions that rarely move in sync.Representing the technology sector in Hong Kong’s Legislative Council – the city’s parliament – Ng, who will be speaking at CoinDesk’s Consensus Hong Kong conference next month, has emerged as one of the city’s most vocal advocates for Web3 and digital assets.Over the past two years, he has pushed through stablecoin legislation, backed crypto…

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They say journalists never truly clock out. But for Christian, that’s not just a metaphor, it’s a lifestyle. By day, he navigates the ever-shifting tides of the cryptocurrency market, wielding words like a seasoned editor and crafting articles that decipher the jargon for the masses. When the PC goes on hibernate mode, however, his pursuits take a more mechanical (and sometimes philosophical) turn. Christian’s journey with the written word began long before the age of Bitcoin. In the hallowed halls of academia, he honed his craft as a feature writer for his college paper. This early love for storytelling paved…

The Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit just took place in El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach, and what an event it was. The invite-only summit saw two days of presentations from communities from across the world, from Indonesia to Peru, from Africa to Bolivia. The summit saw an alleged 29 different countries represented among the small crowd of perhaps 60 attendees and speakers.  The event was put together by the Bitcoin Beach team, lead by Mike Peterson and Roman Martinez, the BCES took place in El Zonte’s community center, a new location built up to support El Zonte’s growing population and economy.   The…

Bitcoin’s sharp decline over the weekend has likely pushed the aggregate investor position in the largest spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) into negative territory, underscoring the severity of the recent downturn.According to Bob Elliott, chief investment officer at asset manager Unlimited Funds, the average dollar invested in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) is now underwater following Friday’s close. The shift coincided with a steep drop in Bitcoin’s (BTC) price, which slid into the mid-$70,000 range. Source: Bob ElliottElliott shared a chart tracking aggregate, dollar-weighted investor returns, showing cumulative gains slipping slightly into negative territory as of late January.The data suggest…

Bitcoin’s price sank sharply over the weekend, sliding below $78,000 — its lowest level since April — as profit-taking collided with thinning liquidity and a scarcity of fresh buyers. Traders told CoinDesk that a rally once backed by corporate demand, particularly from Strategy’s (MSTR) bitcoin purchases, has run out of steam, leaving markets vulnerable to forced selling and derivative liquidations.For some market analysts, Saturday’s slide fits into a broader bearish pattern that has been emerging for months. Eric Crown, a former options trader at NYSE Arca, has argued since late October that bitcoin is in a sideways-to-downside phase, and that…

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The XRP price was caught in the latest crypto market-wide selloff, falling to an intraday low of $1.57 within the past 24 hours. The sudden drop brings into focus XRP’s higher-timeframe structure, which is teasing a break below the 33-month exponential moving average.  According to a technical assessment shared on X by crypto analyst Egrag Crypto, the recent drop below the 33-month exponential moving average does not automatically signal the end of XRP’s cycle, but XRP must close above an exact level to avoid a macro bearish confirmation. Related Reading The 33 EMA Breakdown Signal At the time of writing,…