CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index is up $3023.10 today or 2.99% to $104222.69Largest percentage increase since Jan. 17, 2025, when it gained 4.45%Snaps a three day losing streakUp 11.57% month-to-dateUp 11.57% year-to-dateDown 2.35% from its all-time high

Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I'm Ben Schiller, CoinDesk’s Opinion and Features editor.In this issue:Movement Labs rolls out dev mainnetCardano hard forks to decen

Ethereum is up $88.65 today or 2.90% to $3140.51Largest percentage increase since Jan. 17, 2025, when it gained 4.68%Snaps a three day losing streakDown 6.11% month-to-dateDown 6.11% year-to-dateDown 34.57% from its all-time high of $4800.00 on Nov.

Stratis has announced the launch of Stratis Money Service, a new crypto-to-fiat payment gateway set to go on February, 5th. Designed to help businesses accept cryptocurrency payments, the service aims to bridge the gap between digital assets and trad

Ethereum is down $107.47 today or 3.40% to $3051.86Lowest 5 p.m. level since Nov. 8, 2024, when it traded at $2941.11Down three consecutive days, down 8.58% over this periodWorst three day stretch since the three days ending Jan. 9, 2025, when it fel

The team behind Aerodrome, a decentralized exchange on Base, suspended two contributors from participating in the airdrop for VVV, the token for Erik Voorhees's privacy-focused artificial intelligence project Venice. "The timing of a small percentage

Ethereum restaking infrastructure provider SSV Network has announced a project to create a new framework that allows “based” applications to integrate directly with Ethereum’s validator network.The SSV 2.0 upgrade enables applications called based ap

The SSV DAO, the decentralized autonomous organization behind the decentralized staking protocol SSV Network, unveiled Tuesday a new framework, called “SSV 2.0”, which will allow applications to make use of “based” technology by leveraging Ethereum v

Today in crypto, MicroStrategy is raising additional capital for Bitcoin acquisitions, DeepSeek’s launch rattles tech stocks and Bitcoin’s price, and a group of Ethereum leaders has pledged to a new scaling strategy.MicroStrategy proposes 2.5M share

Ethereum is down $139.65 today or 4.23% to $3159.33 Lowest 5 p.m. level since Jan. 13, 2025, when it traded at $3112.11 Largest percentage decrease since Jan. 18, 2025, when it dropped 5.82% Down two consecutive days, down 5.37% over this period W

The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.I hope you had a good weekend, folks. With both traditional and crypto markets in turmoil following the release of the Chinese free and ope

Mode — a Layer 2 network focusing on agent development — rolled out a subnet on Bittensor for AI agents that can predict crypto prices.While Mode primarily exists as a Layer 2 on Ethereum and is part of Optimism’s Superchain, the subnet will operate

Today in crypto, the launch of a Chinese-based AI rival to ChatGPT has resulted in market jitters and a Bitcoin dip below $100,000 for the first time since Donald Trump was inaugurated as US president, a group of Ethereum leaders committed to a new s

Today, in crypto, a group of Ethereum leaders committed to a new scaling strategy. MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor posted a Bitcoin tracker for the 12th week in a row, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong will rethink the exchange’s asset listing process.

Executives from leading Ethereum layer 2s have said they’re willing to make Ethereum more unified by implementing “based” and “native” rollups, which they say could improve security while making the network less fragmented.The head of Ethereum layer

Executives from leading Ethereum layer 2s have said they’re willing to make Ethereum more unified by implementing “based” and “native” rollups, which they say could improve security while making the network less fragmented.The head of Ethereum layer

Today in crypto, MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor posts Bitcoin tracker for 12th consecutive week, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong proposed rethinking the company’s asset listing process, and Virtuals Protocol is set to expand into the Solana ecosystem.​​

Today in crypto, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong proposed rethinking the company’s asset listing process, Virtuals Protocol is set to expand into the Solana ecosystem, and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) reportedly explores using

Today in crypto, Virtuals Protocol is set to expand into the Solana ecosystem, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) reportedly explores using blockchain to track US government spending, Solana-based decentralized exchange aggregator

AI agent platform Virtuals Protocol has announced it will expand into the Solana ecosystem, and industry participants are saying the integration will have more impact than “most people realize.”Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUALS), already on the Ethereum la