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The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of April 25-May 1. [...]
Suggested fines the securities watchdog suggested for Terraform Labs and Ripple are out-of-line with what it has collected from crypto firms in the past. [...]
Federal prosecutors charges Samurai Wallet founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill with conspiracy to commit money laundering on Wednesday, as the U.S. government continues its approach to prosecuting crypto… [...]
Institutional investors located in Canada significantly increased their holdings of cryptocurrencies in 2023, a survey by KPMG found. [...]
Avi Eisenberg’s centi-million dollar exploit of the decentralized Mango Markets trading platform revealed the perverse incentives of bug bounties. [...]
One of the issuers waived management fees for the first six months, undercutting rival offerings. [...]
The next era of Web3 will be defined by the ability of projects to attract and retain users, says Kelly Ye of Decentral Park Capital. Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer 2 is… [...]
On-chain real-world assets and the integration of wallet infrastructure will replace intermediaries and become standard in the modern asset management lifecycle, says Mehdi Brahimi, head of institutional business at L1. [...]
The new regulations could offer banks a competitive edge by limiting institutions without a banking license to a maximum stablecoin issuance of $10 billion, the report said. [...]
The firm also completed the development of its three-nanometer mining chip, which it had been working on since April 2023. [...]
Bitcoin Conversions will charge a flat 1% fee to automatically convert a portion of merchant revenues into BTC. [...]
The products check decentralized applications across 40+ blockchains via WalletConnect, Fireblocks’ browser extension, and MetaMask Institutional. [...]
Strike, the payments application using the Bitcoin blockchain, has launched in Europe, allowing customers to buy, sell and withdraw bitcoin {{BTC}} in the region, it announced Wednesday. [...]
Germany is a relatively conservative financial market, and landesbank are among its most conservative institutions. So what is the country’s largest landesbank doing launching crypto services? Noelle Acheson explains. [...]
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for April 24, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto… [...]
Binance's founder and former chief executive, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao has apologised for his "poor decisions" and accepted "full responsibility" for his actions, in a letter to the judge overseeing his… [...]
The number of addresses holding stablecoins has risen 15% this year. [...]
A directive circulating in Nigeria asked regulated financial institutions in Nigeria to identify persons or entities transacting in or operating with Bybit, KuCoin, OKX and Binance, but the nation's central… [...]
Some banks, however, expect the dollar index to stay firm over the near term. [...]
India’s general election in 2024 is not expected to immediately affect crypto policy, and its current – restrictive – rules are expected to continue on through the upcoming Parliamentary term. [...]
Hedera's native HBAR token surged by more than 107% on Tuesday as investors believed that BlackRock was involved in a fund tokenization project on the Hedera blockchain, the token then… [...]
Mexico is poised to have its biggest election ever in a few weeks, with 100 million voters choosing 628 elected officials, thousands of local officials and the president. And crypto… [...]
Use of Tether has increased in Venezuela after the U.S. reimposed sanctions on oil exports. [...]
Binance's founder and former chief executive, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, should spend three years in prison for his role in enabling the crypto exchange to violate federal sanctions and money laundering… [...]
Indonesian President Joko Widodo warned the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) to monitor the use of crypto and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for money laundering during a speech last… [...]
Investors are still gauging macroeconomic factors, one observer said. [...]
Last week, U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced a joint bill addressing how stablecoins could be regulated in the country. It's the latest effort to try… [...]
Tokenization initiatives from BlackRock, JP Morgan and others presage a revolution in payments, wealth management and other key activities of Wall Street, says author Annelise Osborne. [...]
Detained Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan will remain in prison in Nigeria until at least May 17, following an Abuja court’s ruling to postpone a scheduled bail hearing until after he… [...]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked a New York court to impose $5.3 billion in fines on Terraform Labs and co-founder Do Kwon for their role in… [...]
Five new editors were added to help speed up the process of approving and merging Bitcoin Improvement Proposals. [...]
“Having an eye on the horizon makes things less crazy,” says the Consensus 2024 speaker. [...]
The defunct crypto exchange will distribute 142,000 BTC and 143,000 BCH to creditors later this year, 10 years after its implosion due to a hack. [...]
The bank reiterated its year-end bitcoin and ether targets of $150,000 and $8,000, respectively. [...]
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule expanding the definition of a "dealer" to capture digital assets activity went too far, a lawsuit by the Blockchain Association and Crypto Freedom… [...]
The firm maintains the "highest" anti-money laundering standards in the industry, it said in a statement to CoinDesk. [...]
The reentrancy bug was discovered by Asymmetric Research, a core contributor to the Wormhole interoperability protocol. [...]
The company from ex-Coinbase employees aims to help developers build better blockchain wallets. [...]
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for April 23, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto… [...]
The decentralized cloud computing company also announced its ‘Akash summit’ on Monday, which will take place before Consensus. [...]
The 200-day simple moving average is one of the most widely tracked indicators of the long-term trend. [...]
DYDX also has a large unlock scheduled but is not experiencing the same pricing pressure. [...]
Derivatives exchange Deribit is the first to integrate FalconX’s Prime Connect. [...]
Ripple Labs filed its opposition on Monday against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) proposal to ask a New York judge to impose a nearly $2 billion fine against… [...]
The new BTC supply added to the market could drop to $30 million per day, according to Bitfinex. [...]
Venezuela's state-run oil company started experimenting with Tether in 2023. [...]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked the court to order Terraform Labs and Do Kwon to pay around $5.3 billion as part of the final judgment against… [...]
Edward Snowden criticized the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for targeting app developers aimed at restoring financial privacy, responding to the arrest of the founders and CEO of cryptocurrency mixing… [...]
Meta’s shares dropped 15% in after-hours trading following announcements in April of plans for significant investment in AI, alongside a weaker revenue outlook and continued losses in its metaverse division,… [...]
According to a report from S&P Global Ratings, the introduction of the Lummis-Gillibrand Payment Stablecoin Act on April 17, 2024, promises to significantly reshape the U.S. stablecoin market. Authored by… [...]
On Wednesday, Block, the financial services firm, disclosed that merchants using Square can convert their daily sales into bitcoin through the Cash App. Block’s founder, Jack Dorsey, revealed this update… [...]
Christian Langalis, famously known as “Bitcoin Sign Guy,” has auctioned the “Buy Bitcoin” sign he displayed during Janet Yellen’s 2017 Congressional testimony for 16 BTC, approximately $1 million dollars at… [...]
OP_CAT, a proposal aimed at introducing Ethereum-like smart contract functionality to Bitcoin, has been assigned the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) number 347, marking the first step towards potentially implementing this… [...]
Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla, has maintained its bitcoin holdings. The company’s Q1 balance sheet shows net digital assets of $184 million. According to crypto analytics firm Arkham, Tesla… [...]
Stacks has initiated the rollout of its Nakamoto upgrade introducing improvements to its Bitcoin layer two (L2) solution. The upgrade aims to bolster transaction speed and security, potentially revitalizing interest… [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted the founders of Samourai Wallet, Keonne Rodriguez, and William Lonergan Hill, on charges of operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business and laundering over $100… [...]
The recent Bitcoin halving event, which cut the block reward for miners in half on April 20, 2024, has sparked a wave of optimism in the cryptocurrency market. While a… [...]
Solana attempted a recovery wave above the $140 level. SOL price is now struggling to clear the $160 and $170 resistance levels. SOL price recovered higher and tested the $160… [...]
Ethereum price failed to clear the $3,280 resistance zone. ETH declined below the $3,200 support and is now consolidating losses above $3,100. Ethereum struggled to clear the $3,250 and $3,280… [...]
According to a recent Bloomberg report, a group of investors and customers of cryptocurrency exchange FTX have agreed to drop their claims against co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried. In exchange, Bankman-Fried has… [...]
Bitcoin price failed to clear the $67,000 resistance. BTC trimmed gains and is now struggling to stay above the $63,650 support zone. Bitcoin started another decline after it failed to… [...]
On-chain data shows that the Bitcoin whales’ holdings have grown to 25.16% of the entire supply, and their net accumulation has continued recently. Bitcoin Investors With 1,000 To 10,000 BTC… [...]
In a surprising turn of events, the native token of the decentralized ledger platform Hedera, HBAR, experienced a significant price surge of over 100% during the early hours of Tuesday.… [...]
The XRP price has seen some level of recovery over the last two days that has seen positive sentiment returning to the latocin once again. This has carried forward with… [...]
While Bitcoin struggles to extend gains, on-chain data shared by Ki Young Ju, the founder of CryptoQuant, on X shows increased movement of old coins. As the Bitcoin Average Dormancy chart shows,… [...]
Bitwise Chief Information Officer (CIO) Matt Hougan recently shared five interesting predictions for the next Halving of the Bitcoin (BTC) network, scheduled for 2028. In a comprehensive report, Hougan sheds… [...]