The Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial's WLFI token sale went live at 12:40 UTC, selling over 220 million tokens to more than 1,700 unique wallets within the first twenty minutes. The token sale website suffered numerous outages shortly after going live. WLFI serves as a governance token for the platform, enabling users to participate in

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2034.14, down 0.9% (-18.88) since 4 pm ET on Monday. Five of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: HBAR (+5.3%) and LINK (+2.2%). Laggards: ICP (-3.5%) and UNI (-3.2%).

The price of bitcoin (BTC) quickly popped higher during early morning U.S. trading hours on Tuesday, rising to levels not seen since late July. At press time, the world's largest crypto was trading at $67,500, ahead 3.7% over the past 24 hours and just off its session high above $67,800. The broader CoinDesk 20 Index

In less than two decades, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have exploded from $1 trillion in assets under management to more than $10 trillion today and Bank of America forecasts a $50 trillion ETF market by 2030. Investors are drawn to ETFs because they offer the diversification of mutual funds with the liquidity of stocks, often at

The crypto ETF era is just getting started, according to Matt Hougan, the chief investment officer of crypto fund issuer Bitwise. Crypto-native investors that have soured on Ethereum's ether (ETH) are underestimating its appeal to TradFi investors and developers. Crypto is in a great spot no matter who wins the U.S. election, he argues. Unmute