Cryptocurrency custody and settlement technology company Qredo has thrown its hat into the ring of compliance solutions aimed at bringing digital assets in line with the...
Solana suffered its latest outage on Wednesday, which lasted more than four hours because the blockchain was processing a niche type of transaction designed for offline...
Good morning! Here's what happened: Prices: Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies are falling. Insights: South Korea's government is taking a closer look at cryptocurrencies. Technician's take: long-term momentum remains...
Consensus Festival 2022 will attract speakers who will lead the global discussion on cryptocurrencies, including how CBDCs - digital central bank currencies - could change money...
One of the largest publicly traded bitcoin miners, Riot Blockchain, has appointed Colin Yee, its current head of corporate and finance, as its new CFO, effective...
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has signed the Giving Pledge, a public commitment by the world's richest people and families to donate the majority of their wealth...
Tether issues one of the most popular and widely used cryptocurrencies in the crypto market, a stablecoin called Tether (USDT). The Tether protocol is closely related to...
Video game retailer GameStop (GME), which reported its quarterly results, received a cash flow boost of $76.9 million from the sale of IMX tokens it received...
There is no doubt that 2022 has stress-tested the crypto industry. Bitcoin has hit a low not seen since 2020, the industry's market cap has dropped...
Survival of the fittest - this old adage applies to crypto miners this year, as the sell-off in the broader market is squeezing out some companies...
Bitcoin (BTC) drifted lower on Wednesday, erasing more than half of its rally in recent days. The cryptocurrency hit a low of around $29,880 during the...
Speculation in cryptocurrencies is being lumped in with other high-risk ventures in a series of new commercials from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) aimed...
Ethereum scaling project Optimism's new OP token has dropped by over 70% after it was introduced to the community via an airdrop on Tuesday. According to CoinMarketCap...
Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies are selling their tokens as the cryptocurrency's falling price erodes profit margins and capital markets are less friendly. Read this article in Spanish. Miners'...
Kanye West could be preparing to coin his own NFTs. This is according to 17 new trademark applications filed around the rapper's alter ego, YEEZUS. This...
Most of the 90 or so guests at Donald Trump's glitzy Christmas party in Naples, Florida, last December took home the ultimate GOP keepsake: a photo...
Bitcoin (BTC) pared earlier gains after buyers took profits below the $33,000 resistance level. The cryptocurrency may find support, first at $27,500 and then at $25,000. The...
Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) on Wednesday laid out the requirements cryptocurrency registrars must meet to obtain a license under laws that took effect last...
The algorithm that powers the Waves Protocol's Neutrino USD (USDN) stablecoin needs to be adjusted in the wake of two recent decouplings from the U.S. dollar,...
Bitcoin miners are selling their mined tokens as the falling bitcoin price erodes profit margins while capital markets become more unfriendly. Miner outflows on exchanges have reached...
Nate Chastain, the OpenSea employee who left the NFT marketplace following an insider trading scandal in September 2021, is now in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities. Chastain...
After a more than 50% drop in the price of major cryptocurrencies and the collapse of some major financial experiments, public opinion about cryptocurrencies has predictably...
Binance Labs, the venture capital (VC) arm of the Binance exchange, has raised $500 million for a fund that will invest in blockchain and Web 3...
Following the collapse of Terra, the South Korean government is planning to form a new committee specifically to oversee the digital asset market, according to a...
DAVOS, Switzerland - Thailand has been working on a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC). An initial pilot was planned for the second quarter of 2022,...
Decentralized finance (DeFi) can be regulated by relying on its own trust-building mechanisms to collect compliance data, according to Raphael Auer, head of the Eurosystem Innovation...
The Proust Questionnaire - an old-fashioned magazine format popular in the French writer's day - asks a series of personal, philosophical and prosaic questions that, in...
Good morning and welcome to First Mover. I'm Lyllah Ledesma, here to guide you through the latest crypto markets, news and insights.Price Point: Bitcoin is trading...
Dework, which aims to be a combination of Trello and LinkedIn for Web 3, has received $5 million in a seed round led by crypto investment...
Blockchain infrastructure provider InfStones has received $66 million in a new funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and GGV Capital. This round comes just...
As Ethereum continues to lay the groundwork for its highly anticipated transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), the network reached a major milestone on Tuesday with the launch...
Binance Labs, the venture capital arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has raised $500 million to create a fund that will invest in Web 3 and blockchain...
European Union financial regulators have said that crypto exchanges should lose their licenses if they have seriously breached anti-money laundering rules. The recommendation comes as lawmakers reach...
A group of tech experts and academics wrote to U.S. lawmakers criticizing cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in the first concerted effort to counter crypto industry lobbying,...
Layer 2 sidechain Polygon requires extensive KYC (Know Your Customer) disclosures to provide financing, investment, grants or financial support to potential partners in India, a person...
Good morning! Here's what happened: Prices: Bitcoin and some altcoins had a good day; Ether was down. Insights: Tether is sticking to the 1:1 retracement of the...
Media company Forbes will not pursue its previous plan to go public through a special purpose acquisition corp (SPAC), The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing...
When people imagine the metaverse today, most probably think of a fully immersive virtual reality universe like the one Steven Spielberg created for the movie "Ready...
The Proust Questionnaire - an old-fashioned magazine format popular in the French writer's day - asks a series of personal, philosophical and prosaic questions that, in...
When people imagine the metaverse today, most probably think of a fully immersive virtual reality universe like the one Steven Spielberg created for the movie "Ready...
There are many ways to make money with cryptocurrencies: Trading, HODLing, Staking, Minting. They all involve some risk and require large investments of time and money....
Entrepreneur and non-fungible token (NFT) influencer Gary Vaynerchuk is launching his own NFT consulting firm, according to a trademark filing May 25. The company will provide "technical...
Bitcoin (BTC) is showing signs of life after nine consecutive weeks of losses. It seems that extreme bearish sentiment and oversold signals have encouraged some buyers...
The Proust Questionnaire - an old-fashioned magazine format popular in the French writer's day - asks a series of personal, philosophical and prosaic questions that, in...
By Alexander Zaitchik, Jeanhee Kim, Kelly Le and Angie Lau, Forkast.News. Part two of a series produced by Forkast.News with support from the Judith Neilson Institute's...
By Alexander Zaitchik, Jeanhee Kim, Kelly Le and Angie Lau, Forkast.News. Part three of a series produced by Forkast.News with support from the Judith Neilson Institute's...
By Alexander Zaitchik, Jeanhee Kim, Kelly Le and Angie Lau, Forkast.News. First in a series produced by Forkast.News with support from the Judith Neilson Institute's Asian...
You should consider purchasing a non-fungible token (NFT) to support the Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) mainstay called PoolTogether. A class action lawsuit against the popular application...
Bitcoin (BTC) overcame a short-term downtrend over the weekend and regained the $30,000 level. The cryptocurrency is experiencing relief after several weeks of oversold chart levels....
Liminal, a company that boasts of a novel wallet architecture focused on safekeeping of digital assets, has received $4.7 million in its seed funding round.Elevation Capital,...
The highly anticipated airdrop of Ethereum scaling solution Optimism is expected to officially go live on Tuesday, but some users have already been able to claim...
Bitcoin (BTC) broke a short-term downtrend over the weekend and regained the $30,000 level. The cryptocurrency is experiencing a relief bounce after several weeks of oversold...
Zcash (ZEC), one of the longest running privacy coins in the cryptocurrency market, is getting even more private. On Tuesday, at block level 1,687,104 (approximately 17:56 UTC),...
For those new to bitcoin, the high price can sometimes seem like a big "no entry" sign. Although bitcoin, like the rest of the crypto market, has...
Crypto companies have raised a record $30 billion in venture capital (VC) in 2021, and the number of deals in the sector is still high despite...
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has said it will finalize standards for banks' exposure to cryptocurrencies later this year, taking recent market woes as an...
CoinShares, which claims to be Europe's largest digital asset company, recorded an "exceptional" loss of 17 million pounds ($21.4 million) from its exposure to Terra's UST...
The rapid 50% APR return farms that originally fueled the meteoric rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) are finally unraveling. It took the collapse of an entire...
DAVOS, Switzerland - In September 2021, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said on an episode of CoinDesk TV's "First Mover" that MiamiCoin (MIA), a private cryptocurrency designed...
Gamelan is the ethereal and beguiling art of puppet shadows, the representation of life told two stages removed from reality, first through the puppets and then...
Aptos Labs, a team bringing Facebook's star-crossed Diem blockchain to life, told CoinDesk that PayPal Ventures was one of the investors in a $200 million funding...
Good morning and welcome to First Mover. I'm Lyllah Ledesma, here to guide you through the latest crypto markets, news and insights.Price Point: Bitcoin has seen...
Polkadot is bringing Liquid Staking to its blockchain network, enabling cryptocurrency holders committed to supporting the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) network to increase their income streams by generating...
Cryptocurrency custodian Fireblocks has hired Varun Paul, the former head of the Bank of England's fintech division, as its first director of digital central bank currencies...
The UK government has published a consultation paper outlining a strategy to reduce risk for investors holding stablecoins.The proposal follows the collapse of algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD...
Fidelity Digital Assets, the subsidiary of financial services giant Fidelity Investments, plans to double its staff this year to meet growing demand for crypto trading from...
Crypto companies raised a record $30 billion in venture capital (VC) last year, and the number of deals in the sector remains high despite the recent...
Terra's newly minted Luna token (LUNA) surged 39.41% on Tuesday after the token was listed on Binance.At the time of writing, Luna 2 was trading at...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), together with financial heavyweights DBS, JPMorgan (JPM) and Marketnode, is launching a pilot project to explore use cases for tokenization...
Crypto markets saw total capitalization rise by about 4.4% in the last 24 hours as Bitcoin (BTC) showed signs of bottoming out and traditional markets showed...
Good morning. Here's what happened: Prices: A day after bitcoin posted its ninth consecutive weekly record decline, the price of the largest cryptocurrency rose the most since...
The DeFi application Mirror Protocol, built on top of Terra, is allegedly being hit by another exploit, according to the pseudonymous "Mirroruser" posting on the Terra...
Cryptocurrency bulls were relieved to see a bounce in digital assets on Monday, especially since the sector failed to rally last week alongside listed tech stocks. Bitcoin...
Kava is including sushi in its developer incentive program by providing a total of $14 million in daily rewards for sushi and kava, split equally."Using Sushi...
Digital asset provider Copper announced that its Swiss branch has received approval to join the country's Financial Services Standard Association, a self-regulatory organization recognized by Swiss...
Bitcoin (BTC) has risen 5.6 percent in the past 24 hours to reach more than $30,000 during Asian trading on Monday, a brief bounce amid a...
After consultations with organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), India is close to finalizing a consultation paper on cryptocurrencies, according...
London-based cryptocurrency payments company Merge has received a $9.5 million seed round of funding led by Octopus Ventures, as well as Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research and...
Last week, CoinDesk's digital magazine, Layer 2, published a comprehensive series on the metaverse. The articles, essays, and opinion pieces addressed what the metaverse is, what...
Bitcoin (BTC) rose 5.6% in the past 24 hours to surpass $30,000 during Asian trading on Monday in a brief burst of strength amid a record...
