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Trump's Election Odds Are Not The Dominant Driver of Bitcoin's Price, Data Show

Many crosscurrents influencing prices, such as U.S. monetary policy expectations and supply overhangs, might be responsible for the weak correlation between election odds and BTC prices.

Bitcoin price could be tied to the outcome of the U.S. election, Jefferies said. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Donald Trump Holds Over $1M in Ether, Also Receives NFT Licensing Fees

Filings show he has over $1 million in Ether.

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Trump Organization to Launch a Cryptocurrency Initiative, Eric Trump Says: Report

The son of former President Trump tweeted earlier this month that he had “truly fallen in love with Crypto/DeFi.”

Eric Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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The Protocol: Memecoin Trading Is Suddenly Trump.fun

Blockchain has gone even more ridiculous than usual over the past week, with headlines focused on Trump-themed memecoins and the Solana-based launchpad Pump.fun. PLUS: Ethereum developers tee up revamp of the EVM programming environment.

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Trump Election Win May Be Bullish for Cryptocurrency Markets, Bernstein Says

Market sentiment suggests that a Trump election victory would be bullish for crypto and a Harris win would be bearish, the report said.

Bitcoin price could be tied to the outcome of the U.S. election, Jefferies said. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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A Trump-Themed Token Soars, Then Dives 95% After His Son Dashes Hope the Former President Backed It

The debacle underscores the wild world of memecoin markets, where grifts and rug pulls abound.

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Donald Trump-Themed DJT Token Slumps 90%

Trump-themed DJT token, issued by Martin Shkreli dove 90%. The token plummeted after a single wallet sold $2 million worth in one transaction reducing its market cap to $3 million from $55 million. Martin Shkreli claimed he and Barron Trump created the token but denied that he held any tokens or keys. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents the "Chart of the Day."

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Trump-Themed ‘DJT’ Token, Issued by Martin Shkreli, Suddenly Dives 90%

A single wallet sold $2 million worth of the token earlier Tuesday, causing market capitalization to fall from $55 million to as low as $2 million almost instantly.

Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli on the left points as he exits a courthouse (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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Kamala Harris Can't 'Cede Crypto to Trump'; Bybit Withdraws Services From France

"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today, as the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum says that Harris cannot afford to "cede crypto to Trump." Plus, the U.S. added 114,000 jobs in the month of July, and crypto exchange Bybit said it will withdraw its services from France in response to regulations in the country.

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Kamala Harris Can't Cede Crypto to Trump, Could be Difference in Battleground States: Think Tank

"Kamala Harris must lay out her own agenda for cryptoassets or she risks ceding the ground entirely to the Republicans," said the commentary from OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute.

Kamala Harris.  (Megan Varner/Getty Images)