Paxos agreed to buy electronic money institution Membrane Finance, which is licensed in Finland.
Woo X plans to invite bets on weekly copy trading competitions between the most copied human traders and George, the AI.
The tokenized assets will initially be made available on Hedera Hashgraph, XRPL and Arbitrum.
Solana traders are quickly embracing the newest stablecoin to join their decentralized finance (DeFi) fray: USDS, issued by Sky (formerly MakerDAO).
Barry Silbert will be the CEO of Yuma, a new DCG company focused on incubating and building new businesses within Bittensor’s decentralized AI ecosystem.
The partnership brings Project Liberty to Consensys' Linea layer-2 network and its popular MetaMask crypto wallet.
By integrating Mastercard MTN's connectivity with Kinexys Digital Payments, mutual customers of MTN and Kinexys will be able to settle B2B transactions through a single API
The integrations aim to boost global payments and decentralized finance on the Aptos network.
Investors in Jito's JTO token could soon start collecting native yield on top of their holdings.
Financial services giant Charles Schwab has plans to directly offer crypto investments to its clients, president and incoming CEO Rick Wurster told Yahoo Finance in an interview on Thursday.
Phantom, a crypto wallet with a steeper learning curve, is way ahead of exchange giant Coinbase in the Apple App Store rankings.
According to the team, the confirmation layer will be a critical piece of infrastructure for composability among layer-2 rollups, allowing for two networks to read and trust each other's blocks of transaction data.
The Beam Chain groups a number of big-ticket upgrades, including zero-knowledge support and fast finality, into a single Ethereum upgrade.
StarkWare, the main developer firm behind Starknet, had shared in July that it would introduce a proposal for staking on the blockchain, but had not previously fixed the date of the rollout.
The bitcoiners gathered at OP_Next were decidedly in favor of progress – but not too much progress, and certainly not too fast.
The new platform, called the “Ethereum time machine,” extends Ethereum’s programming capabilities by allowing smart contracts to execute transactions based on uncertain or not-guaranteed future events.
The long-anticipated LINEA token comes as the next U.S. president is expected to usher in a more favorable regulatory environment for cryptocurrency.
The app's new update seeks to boost transparency in the market by exposing token ownership patterns that may indicate centralization or manipulation.
In founding editor Bradley Keoun's last issue of The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly newsletter devoted to blockchain technology, we're covering Trump's DOGE whistle and the slew of announcements from the big Ethereum conference Devcon in Bangkok.
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Nov. 7-13.
The potential deployment on a Bitcoin layer-2 by the largest DeFi lending protocol highlights the appetite for harnessing the original blockchain for purposes that are commonplace elsewhere in the crypto ecosystem.
The new digital identity platform, Y, forgoes World Network's controversial biometric authentication for a system based on users' online activities.
Like other decentralized AI networks, Morpheus seeks to curtail the negative side effects of AI, such as centralization, censorship, and data monopolies.
Announcement comes shortly after the exchange launched its own ‘wrapped’ bitcoin on Base – cbBTC
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Could Teach DAOs Like Compound a Governance Lesson
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Three stories were honored, including Ian Allison’s scoop that led to Sam Bankman-Fried’s $32 billion crypto empire collapsing in days.
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for November 20, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
The competition for cheap electrons could establish a floor for hashprice, or at least slow down hashrate growth.
BTC traded above $95,900 in early Asian hours, less than 6% from a landmark $100,000 figure that would push it above a $2 trillion market capitalization.
Traders are adding leverage on top of an already leveraged MSTR ETF, signaling heightened risk appetite and a build up of speculative excesses.
BTC futures expiring in March, June and September 2025 trade at prices greater than $100,000, according to data source Deribit.
The chillguy meme has recently gained traction on platforms like TikTok and among brands. But its creator is unamused with a parody memecoin.
Bitcoin has added $30,000 since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election and closing in on a $2 trillion market cap.
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for November 21, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
Dubbed "smart money" of late, retail bitcoiners are starting to sell, but exchange balances are falling, suggesting plenty of buyers.
The company's market cap this week rose to more than three times the amount of bitcoin it held.
Another Democratic commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission is following Chair Gary Gensler out the door in January, leaving the agency with a Republican majority as it weighs a likely course shift under the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Wall Street titan Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary.
The downtime was caused by a bug in its transaction scheduling.
Far from making zero-knowledge rollups obsolete, the Beam Chain would make them work better, says Polygon. zkSync builder Matter Labs is also bullish.
The token of late has benefitted from multiple catalysts, including meme coin action, growing DeFi activity on the Solana network and the coming crypto-friendly presidential administration.
An incoming crypto-friendly regulatory environment for U.S. based companies has renewed optimism for certain tokens, especially XRP.
Strength in BTC is leading to a rotation in other major tokens ahead of the weekend, buoyed by renewed bullish hopes about a crypto-friendly Trump administration that takes office in January.
On-chain activity shows the involvement of large investors and institutions, indicating that the price surge could have staying power.
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for November 22, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
Intelligent Alpha’s investment committee is composed of three AIs, and the fund's CEO tries to stay out of their way.
Dogecoin has a history of moving on Musk comments or payments-related developments of his companies.
With the SEC poised for an overhaul, and Trump's embracing a coterie of crypto bros, a new era of cronyism within the U.S. executive branch is upon us.
WLD has been stuck in a slump for the past 8 months, despite several bullish cycles. The question now is: what's next?
