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View More NewsIn brief Ripple has launched Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury within Ripple Treasury. The firm claims the platform is the first enterprise treasury management system with native digital asset capabilities. The TMS enables CFOs to view, hold, and manage both fiat and digital liquidity in a single interface without manual reconciliation, and supports Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin and XRP alongside traditional currencies. Ripple has announced the launch of Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury, enabling corporate treasurers to manage digital assets like RLUSD and XRP directly alongside traditional cash holdings without switching between separate custody platforms or exchanges.The platform integrates…
CoinShares, 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…
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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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In brief Bitcoin is hovering near $66,000 after Trump reportedly signaled his willingness to end the Iran campaign even with the Strait of Hormuz…
from the McPromptism dept I’m going to trust that most of our audience will have some idea of what McCarthyism was in the 1950s.…
Hong Kong has missed its own March timeline for HKD stablecoin licensing, with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) yet to approve any issuers…
Key takeaways:Solana outperforms Ethereum in high-revenue DApps, providing a fundamental cushion against recent price drops.Rising Ethereum Layer-2 dominance challenges SOL as traders monitor the…
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…