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View More NewsCoinShares, a leading European digital asset manager with over $6 billion under management, is set to begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol CSHR.The listing follows a $1.2 billion merge with Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp., a U.S.-based special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The deal forms CoinShares PLC, and makes the asset manager the latest in the cryptocurrency space to go public It comes after BitGo (BTGO), went public earlier in the year, while various crypto firms listed in 2025 including stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL), CoinDesk owner Bullish (BLSH), and exchange Gemini (GEMI).CoinShares built its business…
Base, the layer-2 network from Coinbase (COIN), is doubling down on its push to build what it calls a “global onchain economy,” outlining a 2026 strategy centered on markets, payments and developers.Base is one of the most widely used layer-2 networks in the Ethereum ecosystem, having opened to public use in August 2023. It was initially built using Optimism’s OP Stack as part of the broader “Superchain” ecosystem, though the project has since signaled plans to differentiate its infrastructure as it scales. In February, the Coinbase team said the chain will increasingly rely on its own, in-house code.Layer-2 blockchains are…
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A review of End of Days: Ruby Ridge, The Apocalypse and the Unmaking of America by Chris Jennings; 384 pages; Little, Brown and Company (February 2026)On 31 August 1992, a siege at a remote cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, ended with the negotiated surrender of religious fanatic and white separatist Randy Weaver and his three daughters. During the eleven-day stand-off with federal law enforcement agents, Weaver’s wife and son were killed and so was a US marshal. Consequently, the incident rapidly became a notorious example of federal incompetence and overreach. That is not, however, the view of author and journalist…
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Key takeaways:Bitcoin reclaimed $68,000 as President Trump hinted at ending the Iran War even if the Strait of Hormuz remained partially closed.Bitcoin derivatives data…
In brief Stablecoin startup P2P.me went viral on X after apologizing for placing Polymarket wagers on its own fundraising efforts. P2P.me’s biggest backers were…
Bitcoin’s first-quarter slump capped an unusual run: nearly six months of underperformance against U.S. equities, a stretch that has no precedent.“That’s never happened,” said…
The analytics platform said it would begin rolling out the agents over the summer for use in investigations and compliance.Chainalysis is introducing blockchain intelligence…
An Ohio jury on Wednesday found the rapper Afroman not liable for defaming the sheriff’s deputies who raided his house nearly four years ago.…
New York, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to release journalist Ahmad Mammadli and credibly investigate claims that police severely…
As AI agents become a bigger topic in crypto, Pranav Ramesh told CoinDesk that Nasdaq has already been using them across several sections of…
Opera, a Nasdaq-listed web browser company, is proposing to change how it is compensated by the Celo ecosystem, opting to receive native tokens instead…
In brief Prediction market Myriad, owned by Decrypt’s parent company Dastan, has successfully closed its seed investment round. Funds investing in the round include…
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Amman, March 19, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an investigation into the apparent targeting of Steve Sweeney, a British correspondent…
In today’s newsletter, Dumpling Bullish, independent digital asset commentator, writes about the growing influence of bitcoin’s derivatives stack on its price.Then, in Ask an…