Bitcoin ETFs, stablecoin regulation, halving cycles, and corporate treasuries loading up on crypto. Digital assets have moved from the fringe of investing into the mainstream, and the forces behind their price moves now run through Wall Street, Washington, and the blockchain itself. 24/7 Wall St's Crypto Desk covers the major cryptocurrencies, crypto-linked stocks, and the regulatory and market developments shaping the space, turning volatile price action and dense technical news into clear analysis of what's changing and why it matters.
The Crypto Desk tracks price action across major digital assets alongside the signals that move them: spot ETF inflows and outflows, SEC and congressional developments, corporate holdings disclosures, and activity from the largest players in the market. Our editors connect those signals to the bigger picture, including how crypto moves relate to interest rates, tech stocks, and investor sentiment, so readers can follow a fast-moving market with context instead of hype.
Peter Brandt just called Monero his favorite crypto, and XMR surged past $600 in response. But with $261 million in leveraged positions riding on its next move, the rally could flip into a rapid…
Millions in liquidations sent ENA crashing nearly 20% while whales quietly moved funds to exchanges, raising an urgent question for the billions of dollars sitting in Ethena's USDe stablecoin.
A new tokenization partnership in Japan gave Chainlink bulls reason to cheer, yet LINK fell anyway. Whether the token can claw back to $15 depends on forces that have nothing to do with the…
Hyperliquid's CEO just outlined the conditions under which Americans could legally trade on the platform, but the path forward raises more questions than it answers for HYPE holders already watching the token slide.
Charles Hoskinson is personally coding a new smart contract language for Cardano that he claims is the first of its kind, but with no spec, no timeline, and ADA in freefall, the bigger question…
Zcash's upcoming NU7 upgrade is set to freeze a chunk of ZEC in place, potentially forever, and coinholders already voted to let it happen. Whether that decision signals a maturing protocol or a governance…
ChatGPT predicts that XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) could be valued at approximately $2.40 by the end of 2028, with a 12% likelihood of reaching $5. This projection is based on an analysis starting from a…
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH), is advocating a more efficient network by moving complex cryptographic operations off the main blockchain. His proposal, tagged as EIP-8288, suggests users could verify cryptographic calculations without storing…
Ripple’s proposed XRP Ledger lending system has gathered 19 of the required 29 validator votes as of October 19, 2026, leaving it just 10 votes short of approval. Ripple has been pitching this system…
In its latest Bitcoin and Solana price prediction, Claude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, predicts that Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) could reach $240,000 and Solana (CRYPTO:SOL) might reach $320 by the end of 2030. These…
XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) emerged as the most-traded coin on Upbit, South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, for the week ending October 18, 2026. It led Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Tether (CRYPTO: USDT), the widely used stablecoin.…
MARA Holdings (NASDAQ:MARA | MARA Price Prediction), the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miner, transferred 1,000 Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC), valued at around $82.8 million, to the Binance and Gate exchanges over five days, according to the…
Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) miners are experiencing a double blow to their earnings. Recently, Bitcoin mining difficulty—the measure of how much computing power is needed to mine a new block—increased by 5.9%, according to data from…
Hackers are shifting stolen crypto into Zcash (CRYPTO:ZEC), and the ZEC price has declined as these transactions increase. On-chain analyst Specter noted that several hackers have followed the Bitget exploiter into Zcash after blockchain…
In the week ending October 17, 2026, only two cryptocurrencies from our analysis of 26 major coins managed to gain value: Monero (CRYPTO:XMR) and TRON (CRYPTO:TRX). Monero increased by 7.6%, reaching $569, as part…
