Quick Look
Most Influential: Gary Gensler
When Gary Gensler came to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), he had the reputation of a regulator who had reformed U.S. law to...
Most Influential 40: Danny Ryan
Did Danny Ryan, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, make ETH “super sound money?” The jury is still out. More data needs collecting...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Dips as China’s Evergrande Defaults, Altcoin Outperformance Could Fade
Most cryptocurrencies traded lower on Thursday after Fitch Ratings labeled China’s Evergrande Group as an official defaulter. Equities...
Most Influential 40: Jeremy Allaire
Jeremy Allaire, a technologist who has long seen the disruptive potential of the internet, founded Circle in 2013 with the aim of bringing...
Most Influential 40: Michael Saylor
Michael Saylor has probably spent more on bitcoin at this point than anyone else – and he’s still buying. The CEO of MicroStrategy, a...
Avast Acquires Self-Sovereign Identity Firm Evernym for Undisclosed Amount
Consumer cybersecurity giant Avast (LSE:AVST) has acquired self-sovereign identity (SSI) company Evernym for an undisclosed amount, Avast...
Most Influential 40: Elizabeth Warren
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) isn’t the only U.S. politician to look at the cryptocurrency industry with a critical eye, but she may be...
Most Influential 40: Jerome Powell
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is likely the most influential man in crypto. Too bad he hates the stuff. As leader of the U.S....
Most Influential 40: Barry Silbert
If U.S. lawmakers ever target the crypto industry for antitrust activity, Digital Currency Group (DCG) might be top of the list. Founded...
Metaverse Goes Hollywood With Universal Music Group Avatar Partnership
Celebrities are coming to the metaverse, and they’re bringing their merchandise with them.Universal Music Group (UMG) has partnered with...
Most Influential 40: Serey Chea
Serey Chea is deputy director general at the National Bank of Cambodia, which is taking a unique approach to a central bank digital...
Strike Launches Dollar-Cost Averaging Product in US
Crypto-friendly payments company Strike has launched a dollar-cost averaging (DCA) product in the U.S., the company announced...
Most Influential 40: Ray Youssef
Few people expected the Nigerian crypto economy to explode after the country’s central bank and financial regulators banned crypto trading...
Most Influential 40: President Xi Jinping
This year Bitcoin took a serious hit to its hashrate, the measure of electricity going to secure the distributed network, when the Chinese...
Reddit Introduces ETH-Based Community Points Beta Program With Custom Tokens for Subreddits
The popular forum and news aggregation web portal Reddit has revealed the firm’s Community Points beta program where Reddit users...
Most Influential 40: Bitfinex’ed
For the past four years, the pseudonymous Twitter user Bitfinex’ed has been one of the most vocal critics of the cryptocurrency industry....
Dapper Labs Raising $13.5M in Equity Offering
Dapper Labs, the creator of basketball collectible platform NBA Top Shot, is raising $13.5 million in an equity offering and is nearly...
Ethereum transaction energy use equals 2.5 miles in a Tesla Model 3: Report
In contrast, a transaction on Tezos takes 0.0016 kWh or less than the energy required to charge an Apple Tablet for 10 minutes. 100 Tezos...
MicroStrategy purchases $82M in Bitcoin, now holds 122,478 coins
Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has added 1,434 Bitcoin to its coffers after purchasing the crypto asset at an average price of...
Bitcoin Drops Below $50K; Support Between $43K-$45K
Bitcoin (BTC) continued to struggle below the $50,000 resistance level. The short-term downtrend over the past month remains in effect,...
Central Banks of France, Switzerland and BIS Complete Cross-Border CBDC Trial
Bank of France, the Swiss National Bank (SNB), and the Bank for International Settlements have successfully tested the application of...
FTX US Is Now a Member of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association
Cryptocurrency exchange FTX’s US subsidiary is now a member of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), FTX chief...
Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood reiterates $500K BTC price, cites institutional investor interest as key
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood says many institutional investors are yet to enter the crypto space She says institutional investors continue...
What Kickstarter Going Decentralized Means for Web 3
Kickstarter going decentralized is the latest boon to the Web 3 narrative, the idea that cryptocurrency and other decentralized tools are...
Burrata Raises $7.75M From Stripe, Variant to Build Identity Data Bridge
There’s a wealth of personal data for compliance-minded crypto startups to cross-check – if only they can bridge it over to Web 3.Doing...
Most Influential : Cynthia Lummis
The Wyoming Senator holds plenty of BTC and may be the crypto industry’s most prominent advocate in Congress. Here’s what she’s thinking...
Crypto News Roundup for Dec. 9, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Market Intel by Chainalysis.Today's Stories:European stocks edge up after Wall Street...
What Is Cloud Mining?
Decades ago, every major software computer company would maintain basements full of computers that crunched numbers day and night. Rooms...
Microsoft Leads $27M Funding Round for Palm NFT Studio
Microsoft’s venture arm is leading a $27 million bet on NFT studio Palm.The raise will be used primarily to scale the company’s operations...
Coinbase Offers Access to DeFi Yields With DAI and Compound
Cryptocurrency exchange giant Coinbase says its opening up decentralized finance (DeFi) to customers who want a slice of high yields...
Terra becomes top-10 crypto: Classic ‘bull pennant’ setup paint $100 LUNA price target
Terra (LUNA) faces the prospects of hitting $100 in the coming weeks as it paints a classic bull pennant structure. In detail, bull...
Bitcoin Struggles Below $50K After Crypto CEOs Took Center Stage
Bitcoin failed to hold above the $50,000 mark and was down 4.2% over the past 24 hours.The largest cryptocurrency was looking weak on...
Ethereum transaction energy use equals to 2.5 miles in a Tesla Model 3, report
In contrast, a transaction on Tezos takes 0.0016 kWh or less than the energy required to charge an Apple Tablet for 10 minutes. 100 Tezos...
Building on the News: Introducing Layer 2 by CoinDesk
The emergence of cryptocurrency and blockchains 12 years ago changed everything.Bitcoin showed that money doesn’t have to be issued by...
Pepsi-Cola Celebrates the Soft Drink’s Birth Year With 1,893 Generative NFTs
The carbonated soft drink manufacturer Pepsi has revealed the company is stepping into the world of blockchain with its first collection...
Bitcoin Miner Iris Energy's Monthly Revenue Fell 10% in November on Higher Difficulty
Iris Energy (IREN), a Sydney-based company that mines bitcoin primarily with renewable energy, said its monthly revenue and number of...
US lawmaker purchases exposure to Bitcoin through Grayscale shares
Illinois Representative Marie Newman has disclosed she purchased up to $50,000 in exposure to crypto through shares of Grayscale Bitcoin...
DeFi Trading Platform Slingshot Raises $15M Led by Ribbit Capital
Slingshot, a service that allows users to trade directly from their wallets while aggregating liquidity across a range of decentralized...
Polygon Acquires Ethereum Scaling Startup Mir for $400M in MATIC
Ethereum layer 2 Polygon is continuing to expand its list of scaling technologies.On Thursday, Polygon announced a $400 million...
Shiba Inu prospects could improve after blockchain gaming move
Early last week saw a drastic rise in the price of the Shiba Inu token by a whopping 36 percent. This did not last long as the coin had...
Binance Investment Director Ken Li Talks About Investing in Web3, Gaming and More Exciting Trends
Binance Labs is a chain-agnostic investor and incubator focused on supporting the global blockchain ecosystem and decentralized web. Their...
Meta’s WhatsApp to Trial Novi Digital Wallet
Meta’s (formerly Facebook) WhatsApp messaging platform is launching a limited trial of its Novi digital wallet platform, the company...
CIA Working on Various Crypto-Focused Projects, Director Confirms
The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has revealed that the agency is working on a number of cryptocurrency-focused...
Addressing Clients’ Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) About Bitcoin
When it comes to fear, uncertainty and doubt, also known as “FUD”, bitcoin attracts more than its fair share. Naysayers have been casting...
SushiSwap (SUSHI) price jumps after CTO quits citing infighting
The price of SushiSwap shot up to a high of $6.88 on Thursday morning. The coin has however taken a slight pullback to trade at about...
The Three Types of Crypto Investors
Financial advisors are either learning about crypto and digital assets or making the decision to take their valuable time to learn. Part...
Crypto Derivative Firm Paradigm Raises $35M From Jump Capital, Alameda Ventures, Others
Paradigm, a firm that provides liquidity to crypto derivatives traders, raised $35 million in a Series A funding round co-led by venture...
CleanSpark Aims to Grow Bitcoin Mining Output Over 20% Through Immersion Cooling
CleanSpark (CLSK), a sustainable bitcoin mining and energy technology company, has bought 20-megawatt, immersion cooling infrastructure...
Ethereum outperforms Bitcoin because people see it as a technology bet, says Mike Novogratz
Ethereum price has jumped nearly 680% this past year, while Bitcoin has added about 170% to its USD value over the same period. Galaxy...
Coinbase users launch online refund campaign following GYEN troubles
Coinbase has come under fire recently following a technology snafu that reportedly resulted in the company closing many of its customer’s...
Decentralized Travel Site Dtravel Says It Has 250K Homes Available to Book Using Crypto
Decentralized home-sharing platform Dtravel says that customers can use cryptocurrency to book 250,000 homes across the company’s global...
Bitcoin could hit $100K, gold $2K in 2022 thanks to ‘deflationary forces’ — Bloomberg analyst
$100,000 Bitcoin (BTC) and $2,000 gold could greet 2022 as global markets face “deflationary forces,” says Bloomberg Intelligence. In a...
MicroStrategy Says It Bought 1,434 Bitcoins Since Nov. 29
MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), the business-intelligence software company that’s taken to accumulating bitcoin, said it bought 1,434...
AVAX’s Ava Labs Among Startups Chosen for Mastercard’s Crypto Accelerator Program
Mastercard is teaming up with five startups to solve global blockchain challenges as part of the payment giant’s “Start Path Crypto”...
Iceland Refuses to Power New Bitcoin Farms Amid Electricity Shortages
Cryptocurrency mining is among several energy-intensive industries hurt by a power deficit in Iceland. The country’s main utility...
Bitcoin hash rate returns to all-time high levels
The global hash rate of the Bitcoin network tanked to as low as 84 exahashes per second (EH/s) at the start of June following the Chinese...
Bitcoin dips below $50K as Evergrande defaults on US dollar debt
Bitcoin (BTC) kept $50,000 as a focus on Dec. 9 as consolidation on BTC/USD continued to avoid last week’s lows. BTC/USD 1-hour candle...
Market highlights December 9: Crypto markets mixed, Wall Street in the green despite Omicron
Following a few days of being in the red, the crypto market was mixed over the past 24 hours. The three major US...
MDT listed on Coinbase, up 56% today: here’s where to buy MeasurableDataToken before it’s too late
The live Measurable Data Token price today is $0.09. It is skyrocketing on news of a Coinbase listing. The unique and innovative coin has...
Bitcoin Hashrate Approaches Full Recovery From China Crackdown
The bitcoin hashrate, a measure of computing power on the network, has almost completely recovered to its level in May, when Chinese...
AMP, the digital collateral token, sees 400% trading volume spike: where to buy AMP
The live Amp price today is $0.056 with a 24-hour trading volume of $142.8 million. Amp is up almost 10% in the last 24 hours....
Where to buy BLZ, the hottest new decentralized storage network token
Bluzelle (BLZ) is a decentralized storage network for the creator economy. According to its creators, Bluzelle delivers high security and...
Wallet Maker Ledger Launches Crypto-Linked Debit Card for US and EU Customers
Ledger, best known for its suite of hardware wallets, is launching a crypto debit card called the Crypto Life card, the company announced...
Coinbase–Ledger Integration Looks to Boost Crypto Self-Custody
Crypto exchange Coinbase is planning to integrate Ledger hardware wallets, bringing users more options for self-custody of their crypto,...
Experts Believe a Common African Cryptocurrency Can Boost Trade and Sustain Growth After Covid-19
Some economic experts from Africa have suggested that the continent now needs a common cryptocurrency and an integrated capital market to...
China, Hong Kong Enter Second Phase of Cross-Border Digital Yuan Trials: Report
China and Hong Kong are in the second phase of testing cross-border transactions using central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), Mu...
Beeple’s Latest NFT ‘Human One’ Sells for $29M, Artist Plans to ‘Enhance the Displayed Artwork’ During His Lifetime
This year the American artist Michael Winkelmann, otherwise known as Beeple, made history when he sold his non-fungible token (NFT)...
IOST’s Highly-Anticipated Sumo-Themed DeFi Token $ZUNA Set to Launch December 10th
PRESS RELEASE. IOST-powered DeFi Protocol Yokozuna Finance is warming up to claim the title in the IOST’s dApp ecosystem. The...
Visa Launches Crypto Advisory Services — Says ‘Digital Currencies Are Taking Greater Hold in Popular Consciousness’
Payments giant Visa has launched global crypto advisory services. The company’s executive says: “We’ve seen a...
Crypto Exchange Bitstamp Lists Shiba Inu as SHIB Adoption Grows
Another major cryptocurrency exchange, Bitstamp, has listed shiba inu cryptocurrency. Bitstamp users will be able to trade SHIB against...
US is ‘unquestionably’ behind the curve on crypto ETFs, says Brian Brooks
Bitfury CEO and former Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks has hinted the regulatory environment in the United States could...
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood Says Metaverse Will Be Multitrillion-Dollar Market
The CEO of Ark Investment Management, Cathie Wood, says that the metaverse can become a multitrillion-dollar market. “It’s a...
3 reasons why DeFiChain (DFI) price has gained 60% in December
Decentralized finance (DeFi) offers one of the most widely applicable use-cases for distributed ledger technology and today it is one of...
Pantone ‘Color of the Year’ Gets the NFT Treatment
While Tezos is billing itself as the “green” blockchain due to its proof-of-stake bona fides, today it’s embracing a different color –...
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Holds Steady as Crypto CEOs Testify, Ether Climbs
Good morning. Here’s what’s happening this morning:Market moves: Bitcoin moved little as the market watched six crypto leaders testify...
Foundry Launches Bitcoin Mining Machine Marketplace, US Pool Becomes the World’s Largest Miner
The firm Foundry Digital announced on Wednesday that the business has launched a bitcoin mining rig marketplace called Foundryx. According...
Frax co-founder Sam Kazemian believes stablecoin regulations are currently too harsh
Stablecoins, or crypto assets which peg their value to less volatile fiat money, are useful tools for a variety of reasons. They can be...
$1.1B in Bitcoin options expire on Friday, but data points to a sub-$55K BTC price
Bitcoin (BTC) bulls are still licking their wounds from the bloody Dec. 4 correction, which saw the price collapse from $57,000 all the...
Label Foundation Has Announced an Official Deployment on Binance Smart Chain
PRESS RELEASE. Label Foundation has recently announced its readiness to deploy on the Binance Smart Chain, utilizing the cross-chain...
Sushi CTO Joseph Delong Resigns After Reports of Project Infighting
Amid a plummeting token price and rumors of infighting, Sushi CTO Joseph Delong announced on Wednesday that he is stepping away from the...
Market Wrap: Cryptocurrencies Stabilize as Some Traders Buy the Dip
Bitcoin was roughly flat over the past 24 hours as buyers attempted to continue to reverse some of last weekend’s losses. Some short-term...
Meet Visa’s New Crypto Advisory Unit
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeToday’s episode covers a set of topics, including:Visa’s new crypto advisory...
Australia to Regulate Crypto Sector as Part of Payments Reform
The government of Australia is preparing to comprehensively regulate the activities of cryptocurrency exchanges and custodians. The push...
Central Banks of France and Switzerland announce successful trial of digital Euro, Swiss Franc
On Wednesday, the Banque de France (BdF), the BIS Innovation Hub (BISIH) and the Swiss National Bank (SNB) announced the success of a...
Discussion on crypto and major tech firms combine in hearing over decentralization of digital ecosystem
Blaine Luetkemeyer, a House representative from Missouri, revisited the issue of major companies exerting control over vast swaths of the...
Crypto legislation unlikely any time soon, says Robinhood chief legal officer
Dan Gallagher says it’s likely US crypto legislation is going to take some time to finalise His comments to CNBC come at a time when...
Kickstarter to Start Blockchain-Based Crowdfunding Project: Report
Kickstarter is creating a new company to build a crowdfunding platform using blockchain technology, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.New...
Bitcoin rebounds on Wall Street open as exchange BTC reserves plunge after $42K dip
Bitcoin (BTC) recovered from a dip below $50,000 on Dec. 8 as Wall St. trading opened on a fresh bullish note. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
NFT partnerships and protocol integrations boost Tezos, WAX and Aleph.im
The roller coaster ride that is the cryptocurrency market continued its volatile ways on Dec. 8 as Bitcoin (BTC) price briefly slipped...
‘Nation should not compensate investors for crypto losses’ says UK’s Financial Conduct Authority CEO
On Wednesday, Nikhil Rathi, CEO of the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority, or FCA, issued the following statement to the...