CoinDesk 20 Surges Madly! Stellar Runs Wild as Cryptos Shake Off Their Chains 🪙

In the gray dawn of another day, CoinDesk Indices — a silent sentinel in the howling crypto steppe — offers the world its daily confession. The ledger grumbles with the news: on the battlefield that is the CoinDesk 20 Index, there are today no dead, only wounded and victorious, all marching in the same riotous direction.

The CoinDesk 20, this metallic hydra of our time, claws its way up to a mighty 3188.0. With the stoicism of a factory foreman counting broken tools, we note a rise of 1.8% — 56.34 more units of hope since yesterday’s melancholy at 4 p.m. ET.

Every single one of the 20 shabby tokens, against all odds and logic, has chosen today to wear its best coat and step out into the market. Perhaps the coins have heard rumors of revolution and want to be present for the looting. Hard to say.

Who are today’s market poets and who are the tired clerks? Behold! Stellar (XLM), that cosmic orphan, vaults 10.3% — perhaps it found meaning in a cold universe, or simply tripped over its own shoelaces and landed on a pile of coins. POL, not to be outdone, limps joyfully behind at +6.7%.

And what of the laggards? Say hello to Bitcoin (BTC) — the ancient titan, now barely stirring from its nap, up a pitiful 0.4%. SOL, the sprinter who forgot to tie his shoes, managed a modest 1.4%. Heroes, in their own tragic stories.

Such is the spectacle: 20 coins, yoked together, traded on a dozen weary platforms in far-flung lands. All united by a common purpose: to bewilder the masses and, perhaps, to make a few rubles for a lucky soul. The market speaks, the people listen, and somewhere, a miner curses his fate. 🪙💸

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2025-07-09 17:05