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Jake Chervinsky: Crypto Twitter's Favorite Lawyer | Road to Consensus by CoinDesk
Jake Chervinsky is a lawyer, just not yours. A litigator with New York-based Kobre & Kim, Chervinsky has become a preeminent Twitter...
BitMEX Compliance Chief Malcolm Wright Jumps to Shyft Network
Malcolm Wright, the former chief compliance officer at BitMEX, has joined Shyft Network, a startup focused on helping cryptocurrency firms...
Bitrue Is Launching a New Yield Farming Hub
PRESS RELEASE. In the world of cryptocurrencies, it is important for any crypto exchange to offer plenty of different options when it...
Amber Baldet: Privacy as Profit
Clovyr co-founder Amber Baldet joins Nolan Bauerle to discuss the state of enterprise blockchain and the benefits of taking privacy...
Will Martino: Who Needs Private Blockchains?
Kadena's Will Martino joins host Nolan Bauerle to share his journey from the SEC and JPMorgan into the Wild West of crypto.Register for...
One Day After Launch, OpenSea Competitor LooksRare Sells Over $100M in NFTs
After months of speculation about a possible vampire attack, dominant NFT marketplace OpenSea may finally have a worthy – and more...
A Web 3 Company Just Bought a Stake in a TradFi Giant
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.Download this episodeOn today’s episode of “The Breakdown,” NLW...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin and Equities Stabilize as Sentiment Improves
Bitcoin rose toward $43,000 on Tuesday and is up about 3% over the past 24 hours. Several alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins) such as...
Edward Woodford – Seed CX, Regulation, and the Conditions for Success
Seed CX co-founder Edward Woodford joins host Nolan Bauerle to discuss market data, manipulation, and fair markets. Register for Consensus...
Eric Piscini: Supply Chains and Marketplace Participation
Eric Piscini of Citizens Reserve tells CoinDesk's Nolan Bauerle that decentralized platforms are the #1 opportunity in the blockchain...
Inside the Mnuchin Files
We FOIA’d former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s emails. Here’s what we found.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter...
Traders Will Be Watching if December CPI Confirms Inflation at 4-Decade High
Bitcoin traders have been betting for years the largest cryptocurrency by market cap could serve as an effective hedge against inflation....
Bitcoin price surges to $43K, but traders warn that ‘real pain’ is due for altcoins
Bitcoin (BTC) fell slightly into the Wall Street open on Jan. 11 after the largest cryptocurrency failed to crack resistance above...
Kevin O'Leary's Crypto Investing Playbook
Kevin O’Leary is a centimillionaire, a businessperson on reality TV and a crypto bag holder. He’s one of many, many traditional investors...
‘Centralization issues’ are the biggest culprits of DeFi attacks: CertiK
Decentralized finance, better known as DeFi, may not be “decentralized” enough as attackers exploited centralized weak points to drain...
DeSo Wants Your Seed Phrase. Let Them Come and Take It
Late on Sunday, Jan. 9, DeSo founder Nader Al-Naji announced that his “decentralized social media” service would update its login flow,...
175-Year-Old News Cooperative the Associated Press Plans to Launch NFT Marketplace
On January 10, 2022, the Associated Press (AP), the American non-profit news cooperative founded in 1846, has announced the news agency is...
Ethereum futures and options data reflects traders’ mixed emotions on $3.2K ETH price
Ether (ETH) has been an emotional rollercoaster over the past three months primarily because its price rallied twice. First, it peaked at...
BREAKDOWN: Should the Government Have a Say in Where Can Invest?
Accredited investor laws block most of the US out of technology and other types of early stage risk investing, but as the ICO boom showed,...
Welcome to the Crypto Version of ‘Blade Runner’
Big chunky pixels. Lots of pixels. That’s what you see when you enter most of the early crypto metaverses, such as Decentraland and The...
BREAKDOWN: Art Haus Ethereum Meets Bitcoin Financialization
One of the most important (yet somehow quiet) narratives of 2019 has been the financialization of bitcoin and the emergence of a robust...
Strike Launches Bitcoin Payment Services in Argentina to Kickstart Latin American Expansion
Bitcoin's Lightning Network-powered app Strike has launched its services in Argentina, the company announced Tuesday.Argentines will be...
Bitcoin Rises From Oversold Levels; Faces Resistance Near $45K
Bitcoin (BTC) is trading above the $40,000 support level and is up about 3% over the past 24 hours. Buyers are starting to return to the...
BREAKDOWN: Peter McCormack On A Defiant New Era For Bitcoin
Peter McCormack is one of the most prominent podcasters in the space. In 2019, he added a new podcast called “Defiance” and focused on the...
BREAKDOWN: Rob ‘Crypto Bobby’ Paone and Preethi Kasireddy on Fundraising, Halvings, and the Long Steady Slog of Crypto
Rob Paone, aka Crypto Bobby, got his start as a popular crypto YouTuber and has gone on to help build a number of crypto companies before...
BREAKDOWN: Katherine Wu on DeFi and the Inevitability of the Digital Yuan
Katherine Wu was a founding team member at Messari before moving into a VC role at Notation Capital, but is perhaps best known in crypto...
BREAKDOWN: Taylor Monahan on Crypto’s Divergent Possibilities in 2020
Taylor Monahan is the founder and CEO of MyCrypto. In this interview as part of The Breakdown’s end of year coverage, she argues that the...
BREAKDOWN: Taking the TON out of Telegram | January 6th 2020
Last week, the US government took out a key Iranian military leader. As the world - and the markets - reacts to the news, some are asking...
BREAKDOWN: Hamstringing an Industry With Compliance Costs | January 7th, 2020
In their annual transparency report, Kraken reported seeing a 50% increase in regulatory inquiries as compared to 2018, which CEO Jesse...
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Tune in as CoinDesk Editor Adam B. Levine and Intern Adrian Blust run down daily action in crypto markets and some of the most important...
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Mapping Out Eth 2.0
The world’s 2nd largest cryptocurrency Ethereum is going through an upgrade! It’s previous problems will now be solved with Eth 2.0.In...
Hard Problems Bram with Cohen
Join Chia CEO and BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen as he and a growing cast of subject matter experts explore the hardest problems still...
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The Disruption is global and its reach knows no bounds. As bitcoin & crypto stories from around the world circulate, Coindesk...
Iran to Permit Use of Cryptocurrencies in International Settlements, Reports Reveal
Authorities in Iran are preparing to allow the employment of cryptocurrencies for international settlements. According to local media,...
Metaverse Scarcity Isn’t Real
There’s an old saying, “Buy land, they’re not making any more of it.” When it comes to the metaverse, that isn’t true.Artificial scarcity...
What next for Crypto.com (CRO) after a 7-day blood bath? – Price prediction and analysis
Crypto.com (CRO) is simply in shambles. After a massive 7-day rout that saw the token lose nearly 25% in value, CRO is still in the eye of...
Bitcoin News Roundup for July 17, 2020
With Binance expanding its miner ambitions and Thailand's CBDC seeing early use, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back with another bitcoin...
Oasis Network (ROSE) has rebounded sharply – Can this uptrend keep going?
After a sluggish start to 2022, Oasis Network (ROSE) is finally rebounding sharply. The token appears to have weathered the crypto storm...
Bitcoin News Roundup for June 11, 2021
With BTC trading at $37K and a look at the controversy surrounding the carbon footprint of blockchain ecosystems, CoinDesk’s Market Daily...
Emerging bullish pattern could push AVAX past $98 – Price prediction and analysis below
After hitting all-time highs in the middle of December last year, Avalanche (AVAX) has been on a downtrend. The coin went from trading at...
Are El Salvador’s Bitcoin ‘Volcano Bonds’ an End Run Around the IMF?
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeToday on “The Breakdown,” a check in on El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele...
Crypto Talks From CoinDesk
We’re talking to experts in the crypto and blockchain space about the future of the industry. You’ll hear from economists, entrepreneurs,...
Chainlink (LINK) establishes upward trendline despite market-wide crypto correction
Chainlink (LINK) appears to be establishing an upward trend line that could see it surge towards $33. The coin has in fact been one of the...
New Money
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The 10 Tribes of Crypto
Many people think crypto is full of flinty libertarians and Shiba-chasing degens. But anyone who’s hung around crypto for a while knows...
Expanding Crypto Market Caps by 500% to 1,300%: Stablecoin Issuance Saw Significant Growth Last Year
As crypto-assets grew immensely in value last year, the growth of the stablecoin economy swelled as well and today, there’s $170.24...
What Are Ethereum Gas Fees?
There is no such thing as a free lunch and there’s certainly no such thing as a free transaction. If spending $5 to receive $20 at an ATM...
How to Set Up a MetaMask Wallet
Whether you’re looking to create your first non-fungible token (NFT), lend assets on a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol or simply buy...
EPNS Goes Live in Bid to Bring Notifications to Web 3
A new project is hoping to address a key aspect of user experience that Web 3 currently lacks – the ability for protocols, contracts and...
South African Police Investigate Missing Brothers’ Crypto Platform, Africrypt
Police in South Africa are looking into criminal cases brought by investors claiming to have been defrauded by Africrypt, a crypto...
Axie Infinity’s Gaming Sidechain Is Bigger Than Many Major L1s by Volume: Nansen Report
A farming simulator clogged a popular blockchain for days on end last week. Now a new research report from blockchain analytics firm...
Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 11, 2022
This episode is sponsored by Kava.Today's Stories:Bitcoin’s Nearly 40% Slide Weighs on Crypto Stocks While Coinbase OutperformsStock...
LIVE BLOG: Fed Chair Jerome Powell Appears Before the Senate Banking Committee
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has run the U.S. central bank for the last four years, but his most significant work may have come in...
Wall Street still not convinced on Bitcoin $100K this year: JPMorgan survey
One of the world’s largest investment banks has its Bitcoin (BTC) price predictions ready for 2022. In a recent poll, JPMorgan Chase asked...
Decentral Park Capital Launches $75M DeFi Fund
Decentral Park Capital, an early-stage investment firm with $140 million in assets under management, has announced a new $75 million fund...
GameFi NFT Marketplace Lootex Closes $9M Funding Round
Lootex, a multi-chain non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, has closed a $9 million seed funding round co-led by Spartan Capital, Infinity...
Paradigm, Sequoia to Invest $1.15B in Citadel Securities, Bringing Trading Firm Closer to Crypto
Venture capital firms Paradigm Capital and Sequoia Capital have agreed to invest $1.15 billion in electronic trading giant Citadel...
Down From the Peaks: A Look at How Far Crypto Assets Have Slid From Their All-Time Highs
Digital currencies had a phenomenal year, and a great deal of the crypto assets in existence reached all-time high (ATH) prices against...
Luxor Launches New Business for Buying and Selling Bitcoin Mining Machines
Luxor Technology, the bitcoin and crypto service provider, is starting a new brokerage business for buying and selling high-performance...
Unstoppable Domains Launches NFT-Based Sign-On for Ethereum and Polygon
Unstoppable Domains, a startup creating identity applications suited to a blockchain-based Web 3 world, has launched a single sign-on...
Iris Energy’s December Hashrate Rises 14% as Revenue Falls Again
Nasdaq-listed Iris Energy’s (IREN) average hashrate was up 14% month on month in December 2021 while operating revenue fell 6.4%, the...
Coinbase, PayPal, FTX.US and More Join TaxBit’s Free Filing Network for Crypto Taxes
Utah-based tax software firm TaxBit has launched the TaxBit Network – a partnership between TaxBit and 20 top crypto companies including...
The Blockchain-Based Webtoon Platform “TooNFT” Launches on Toomics’ Ecosystem
PRESS RELEASE. Tortola, BVI, 10 Jan 2022: Anyone who has been paying attention to the world of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) will know that...
The Mnuchin Files: New Documents Shed Light on Trump-Era Crypto Policy
The idea of a digital U.S. dollar had an early behind-the-scenes advocate inside the Trump administration in the president’s son-in-law,...
Near, Cosmos Defy Altcoin Plunge With Price Surge
Tokens of Near (NEAR) and Cosmos (ATOM) were among the only gainers among major cryptocurrencies in the past 24 hours as the broader...
Capital Pooling Firm Valdy Rebrands to INX Digital After Reverse Merger
Canadian capital pooling company Valdy Investments completed the takeover of securities token platform INX and subsequently changed its...
Report: Fintech Firms Received 62% of the $4.9 Billion Raised by African Tech Companies in 2021
Fintechs account for nearly two-thirds of the $4.9 billion that was raised by African technology firms during the past year. Fintech...
Binance Taps Former Government Officials for Russia, Ukraine Posts
Major global cryptocurrency exchange Binance has hired former government officials from Russia and Ukraine to help develop its business in...
Crypto strategist outlines 2022 bullish scenarios for Polygon, Fantom and Enjin Coin
Cryptocurrencies continue to face downward pressure as sentiment across the equity market also weighs on crypto assets. Popular crypto...
Bitcoin’s Near 40% Slide Weighs on Crypto Stocks While Coinbase Outperforms
Bitcoin (BTC) has taken a beating over the past two months, bringing pain for digital assets and blockchain-related stocks, most of which...
Market highlights January 11: Cryptos mostly lower, rate rise threat unsettles US markets
The crypto market as a whole is bearish today. US markets were mixed yesterday, with the threat of multiple upcoming rate rises causing...
El Salvador to Add More Geothermal Energy Sources to Power Bitcoin City
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has confirmed that the country is making investments to secure a geothermal power source for...
Axis Bank issues financial contract on state-backed blockchain platform
Indian financial services giant Axis Bank issued a financial contract between two domestic businesses by using a government-backed...
Bitcoin returns to $42K as bets start favoring ‘short squeeze’ higher for BTC
Bitcoin (BTC) broke through $42,000 on Jan. 11 as expectations of a fresh “short squeeze” mounted. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp)....
Elrond Foundation Acquires Crypto Payments Firm Utrust
Elrond, an Ethereum competitor touting throughput on the order of 100,000 transactions per second, is acquiring Utrust, a Portugal-based...
Binance Becomes Official Sponsor of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON 2021)
Binance is thrilled to announce that it is an official sponsor of the 2021 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament, taking...
NYDIG-Owned Payments Startup Bottlepay Obtains FCA Registration
Payments startup Bottlepay said it has been approved by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to carry out crypto-asset activities in the...
Top places to buy IOTA, one of the few winners today
IOTA, the only blockchainless blockchain, is one of the few gainers on this day of crypto market gloom. It has added around 3% to its...
Olympus Tanks 30% Led by Liquidations on Fuse, Souring Market Sentiment
Tokens of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Olympus (OHM) dropped as much as 32% in the past 24 hours as crypto traders moved away...
The hottest new dog-themed meme coin? Where to buy SpookyShiba
SpookyShiba is the first "Horror Genre" token. The dog-themed meme coin added 40% to its value today. Do you want to know more about...
Olympus Tanks 30% as Fuse Pools See Liquidations
Tokens of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Olympus (OHM) dropped as much as 32% in the past 24 hours as crypto traders moved away...
You can now buy NEAR, up 17% in the last 24 hours: here’s where
The live NEAR Protocol (NEAR) price today is $16.44 with a 24-hour trading volume of just under $1.8 billion. The NEAR token is up 16.68%...
Price of NEAR is skyrocketing today, up almost 17%: best places to buy NEAR now
The live NEAR Protocol (NEAR) price today is $16.44 with a 24-hour trading volume of just under $1.8 billion. The NEAR token is up 16.68%...
Argentina-Based Mobile Wallet App Belo Adds Lightning Network Support via Opennode
On Monday, January 10, the Argentina-based mobile wallet company Belo announced that the platform has added support for the Lightning...
New NFT marketplace LooksRare allows traders to earn rewards
LooksRare, a recently launched nonfungible token, or NFT, marketplace, says it wants to index all NFT collections on the Ethereum...
Sega Might Drop NFT Experiments if Perceived by Gamers as a Money Grab
Sega, a leading videogame development company, has announced its new stance when it comes to the play-to-earn model and the inclusion of...
EverRise Launches EverSwap With a Native Coin Swap to Facilitate Cross-Chain Exchanges
PRESS RELEASE. EverRise launches their fifth decentralized application (dApp) today, EverSwap, a multi-chain decentralized exchange (DEX),...