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Stacking Fasts: Inside the Crypto Community’s New Diet CrazeIt’s been 27 hours since my last meal and my body is starting to eat itself.Autophagy, literally self-eating, is the latest dietary trend in the crypto community. More commonly known as fasting, the idea is to abstain from ingesting food for a set amount of time, ranging…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesBitcoin (BTC) traded little changed, hovering just over $43,000 on Monday, while altcoins gained. Chainlink’s CHAIN has added 7% over the past 24 hours after surging

news Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by adjusted trading volume, has released a new video demo of its decentralized exchange, dubbed Binance DEX, ahead of its launch in early 2019. Released Wednesday, the video demonstrates the trading interface of Binance DEX, along with a web crypto wallet and the explorer for Binance’s native public…

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Friend.tech, a decentralized social media app that launched two weeks ago, has officially leapt over hamster racing as the latest crypto trading craze. Judging by the numbers alone, the platform, which counts an NBA player and e-sports juggernaut as early users, and venture capital heavyweight Paradigm as a seed round investor, might already be one…

Magnus Resch has been called many things: an art collector, a storyteller and at least once, by CNN, “the world's leading art market economist." He’s run galleries, taught in the Ivy League and has tried to quantify the often opaque world of art collecting.In his new book, “How to Collect Art,” which will be published

Crypto payments startup Wyre has acquired 100 percent of Hedgy, a venture-backed bitcoin smart contract development firm, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will help Wyre broaden the scope of the services it provides to crypto startups, the company's co-founder and COO Ioannis Giannaros told CoinDesk. Wyre provides cross-border payments using bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and other cryptocurrencies…

A rally in the price of cryptocurrencies such as Solana (SOL), which is currently trading at $78, has set the market for FTX bankruptcy claims on fire, according to specialists at distressed firms dealing in crypto.Sam Bankman-Fried, the boss of FTX, which suddenly spiraled into bankruptcy last year, had championed the Solana project, and the

Helene is a U.S. markets reporter at CoinDesk, covering the US economy, the Fed, and bitcoin. She is a recent graduate of New York University's business and economic reporting program.Crypto trading platform Enclave Markets has started a fully encrypted spot exchange, Enclave Spot, as it has seen continued interest from institutional investors, the company said…