Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a
BNB rose nearly 1.5% in the last 24-hour period to test the $860 mark and is at near multisession highs
Popular meme coin Shiba Inu has struggled to break out of its sideways price action following August’s tepid market performance.
Maple’s syrupUSDC now lives on Arbitrum, adding institutional-grade yield to the network’s lending stack. The launch layers native returns with
Bitget exchange and Bitget Wallet have integrated with Ondo Finance to enable trading of more than 100 tokenized stocks and
SOL begins to outperform again in majors, nears $212. SEC, CFTC give guidance for crypto adoption. Strategy buys $449m BTC.
KuCoin has officially launched its crypto mining platform called KuMining, a cloud mining operation with up to 10% of the
Hedera’s native token, HBAR, showed signs of bullish momentum over the past 24 hours, gaining 3% while weathering moderate market
Etherealize, a startup developing infrastructure to help Wall Street institutions adopt Ethereum, has raised $40 million in Series A funding,
The WLFI price continued its strong downtrend as investors stayed on the sidelines and memories of Trump’s original memecoin linger.
Wall Street banking and research firm Compass Point has initiated coverage of crypto platform Bullish (BLSH), the parent company of
AI is stepping onto the trading floor. Not as software, but as an actor. Agents don’t just analyze markets, they
