Sara Startoberdha succeeds Kevin Worth, who has led CoinDesk since 2017. Author: Sam Kessler, Danny Nelson

The company, backed by the owner of the NYSE, was introduced in 2018 with the initial goal of helping Starbucks customers buy coffee with bitcoin. Author: Nick Baker

BTC broke above $44,000 for the first time since Jan. 12, the day after the spot ETF debuts. Author: Krisztian Sandor

LINK is one of the year’s top-performing tokens, driven largely by hype around the tokenization of real-world assets. Author: Shaurya Malwa

With almost two hours left for whitelisted buyers to claim the digital-art collectibles, at least 2,560 of the series of 3,000 had been claimed, at a fixed price of 0.1 BTC ($4,274 each). Author: Bradley Keoun