CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: LTC Gains 8.5%, Leading Index Higher from Wednesday Hedera and Ripple were also top performers, each gaining 6%.

SocGen Crypto Arm to Bring Its Euro Stablecoin to XRP Ledger, Lays Out Plan for Going Multichain The French financial services firm said earlier this year it will also expand EURCV to the Solana network after struggling to attract users on Ethereum.

Polymarket’s Probe Highlights Challenges of Blocking U.S. Users (and Their VPNs) What can offshore crypto companies practically do to stop Americans from accessing their services – and what do regulators expect them to do?

U.S. ETF Inflows Hit $4.7B Over 6 Days as Bitcoin Becomes 7th-Largest Asset in the World Bitcoin dominance continues its uptrend and hits new highs as ETF inflows soar.

What Does a 60/40 Portfolio Look Like if We Replace Bonds With Bitcoin, a Lot Better: Van Straten

Missing Crypto Influencer, Under Investigation by Canadian Regulator, Found Dead in Montreal: Report His body was found months after he was kidnapped from a Montreal condo. A 32-year-old woman has been charged with his murder.

Institutions Go All In on Crypto: Sygnum Survey Reveals 57% Respondents Plan to Boost Allocations A notable 65% of the survey respondents are bullish long-term, with 63% mulling more allocation to digital assets in the next three to six months.

Republicans Win House Majority, Completing Trifecta in 2024 Election That Saw Donald Trump Win Second Term The Republican Party has kept the U.S. House of Representatives for the next two years, raising hopes for comprehensive crypto legislation in the next Congress and securing a Republican trifecta for at least the next two years.

Polymarket CEO’s Home Is Raided by FBI Shayne Coplan’s prediction market saw enormous activity leading up to the U.S. presidential election.

The Protocol: Reinvent Ethererum, and Just Don’t Break Bitcoin In founding editor Bradley Keoun’s last issue of The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter devoted to blockchain technology, we’re covering Trump’s DOGE whistle and the slew of announcements from the big Ethereum conference Devcon in Bangkok.

How a $115M Crypto Fund With Big Ambitions Plans to Invest In Latin America Hyla Fund Management wants to become the Goldman Sachs of crypto. The firm plans on launching a new Latin America crypto fund as part of its strategy.

Your Idea of a Memecoin Community Is Wrong Web3Auth co-founder and CEO Zhen Yu Yong believes that memecoins are more than community-building machines and sources of speculation. They’re a new type of liquidity vehicle applicable across modern finance.

Senior Federal Reserve Official Who Blasted Bitcoin Now Says He’ll Have an Open Mind Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari, who previously called the cryptocurrency industry “worthless” and “nonsense,” still isn’t an uber-bull, though.

Film Development Needs an On-Chain Business Model The company behind hits like Wall Street, American Psycho and Conan the Barbarian has a fresh take on how to bring daring cinema to life. Here’s Sam Pressman to explain.

Hard Way to Make An Easy Living: Profiting in A New Altcoin World Altcoin trading is following a similar path to online poker as the game is getting considerably tougher. But there will continue to be windows of “easy money”, says David Zimmerman, a research analyst at K33 Research.

Bitcoin Traders Pile Into $100K CME Options as Price Climbs Through $93K: CF Benchmarks BTC blasted through the $90,000 resistance level on Wednesday, defying the dollar strength.

Beating Bitcoin Crypto market returns today exhibit a power law distribution, where a few top performers can significantly boost a portfolio’s overall results, says Felician Stratmann.

The Real Winner of the 2024 Elections: The Crypto Industry The 2024 elections marked a significant turning point for the crypto industry, with a pro-crypto president-elect advocating for the U.S. as the “crypto capital of the planet,” paving the way for a shift from regulatory enforcement to a clearer, more predictable regulatory framework that will facilitate mainstream adoption and innovation in the s…

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren Rises Into Role Where Crypto Sector Won’t Shake Her U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been held up as the crypto industry’s chief opponent in Congress, and she’s now ascending to the role as the top Democrat in the Senate Banking Committee, where she’ll be heard from on the digital assets legislation that likely needs a sign-off from that panel.

Bitcoin Surges to New Record Over $93K as Strong U.S. Demand Crushes Resistance Level Bitcoin is leading the broader crypto market higher, outperforming the CoinDesk 20 Index with its 6% advance over the past 24 hours.