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CoinDesk Quarterly Review 2021 Q1
Over 100+ slides, CoinDesk Research covers the main developments over Q1 2021 in crypto markets, covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi,...
Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 18, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Market Intel by Chainalysis.Today’s Stories:Bitcoin Faces Resistance Above $62K After...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report March 2021
Kaiko’s latest monthly report looks back at the milestones and trends of one of the most consequential quarters in the history of crypto...
DappRadar: Dapp Industry Report Q1 2021
This quarterly review of the decentralized application (dapp) industry shows astonishing growth (over 600%), as NFT excitement proved that...
Does Bitcoin Have an Energy Problem?
Is Bitcoin bad for the environment? This CoinDesk Research report looks at the data behind the most common critiques and shows that, while...
Cryptocurrency Exchange Bakkt Falls in First Day of Trading After SPAC Deal
Cryptocurrency exchange Bakkt, which is majority-owned by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), was trading down 2.4% in its first day of...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report April 2021
Kaiko’s latest monthly report looks at the divergence between BTC and ETH, Coinbase’s stock exchange debut, stablecoin tether’s...
CrossTower: A Look Into the Valuable Properties of NFTs
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have soared in popularity in just the last few months, but questions abound regarding NFT valuations....
TokenInsight: 2021Q1 Crypto Futures & Options Market
This report by TokenInsight looks at the evolution of cryptocurrency futures & options over 2021 Q1, highlighting growing volumes and...
TokenInsight: 2021 Polkadot Ecosystem
This report by TokenInsight looks into the projects built on Polkadot’s ecosystem and the underpinning market data of the Polkadot...
More Than $200M Lost to Crypto Fraud in the UK This Year
Crypto fraud has accounted for losses of over £146 million ($200 million) in the U.K. this year, according to the City of London...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report May 2021
Kaiko’s latest monthly report looks at crypto market volatility, record spot trading volumes, the rise of ETH, BTC's faltering "digital...
Cardano Subsidiary Emurgo in Partnership With Pan-African Venture Studio
Emurgo, the investment arm of Cardano, has partnered one of its subsidiaries with Adanian Labs, a pan-African venture studio that is...
EIP 1559: Ethereum's Fee Market Upgrade Explained
In July, Ethereum is expected to undergo a backwards-incompatible upgrade, also called a "hard fork." One of the most highly anticipated...
The Investor’s Perspective on the Bitcoin Taproot Upgrade
In June, Bitcoin miners signaled support for Taproot, a bundle of three upgrades to Bitcoin aimed at improving network security, privacy...
A New Crypto Bear Market Begins: CoinDesk Quarterly Review 2021 Q2
The second quarter of 2021 was characterized by price retracing in most crypto assets in the CoinDesk 20, signaling the early beginnings...
The First ‘Move-to-Earn’ NFT Game Just Raised $8.3M
Genopets, a Solana-based non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players are rewarded for the steps they take in real life, has...
CoinFLEX AMM+ Arena: Bring Your Competitive Edge to the AMM Experience
PRESS RELEASE. CoinFLEX, a crypto futures exchange, is the first centralized exchange to launch a hybrid Automated Market Maker called...
Rosengren claims US CBDC will be separate from other digital assets
A digital currency may be coming to the US soon, but blockchain won’t play a crucial role in its development Former President of the...
Crypto tax rule will be decisive in South Korea’s upcoming election
South Korean presidential candidates have started calling for changes in the crypto tax rules to charm the younger generation The...
Where to buy Prince Floki Inu as PrinceFloki sees 1998% returns
The Prince Floki Inu token has registered huge gains in the past 14 hours and the token is trading at $0.0000013 at the time of writing....
BIT Mining Invests Another $11M in Ohio Crypto Mining Data Center
Cryptocurrency mining company BIT Mining (NYSE: BTCM) is investing a further $11 million in the Ohio site it is developing with Viking...
Where to buy Rabbit Finance as RABBIT gains by 254%
The Rabbit Finance token has seen a bull run in the past 24 hours and the token is trading at $0.13 at the time of writing. The RABBIT...
Where to buy Gooreo as the token rises by 130%
The Gooreo token has seen gains of 130% in the past 24 hours and the coin could possibly 2X if the bulls decide to extend the rally. The...
XRP price ‘unaffected’ by SEC case: Mike Novogratz
XRP's value rebounded off lows of $0.17 in January to reach highs near $2 despite negative sentiment around the SEC case The US Securities...
Where to buy Stacks as STX registers huge rally
The Stacks token is currently trading at $2.68 with 29% gains in a day. The STX coin could possibly rise by another 20-30% if the bulls...
Russia, Belarus Move to Introduce Special Electricity Tariffs for Crypto Miners
Authorities in Belarus and the Russian Federation are taking steps to separate cryptocurrency miners from other groups of power users and...
ProShares ETF to Start NYSE Trading on Tuesday: Report
ProShares will launch a bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) tomorrow, the New York Times reported, citing DealBook.The Securities...
Bitcoin Faces Resistance Above $62K After Record Weekly Close
Bitcoin ended Sunday (UTC) well above $61,000, confirming its highest weekly close on record and putting the lifetime price record of...
Indexed Finance ‘identifies’ attacker behind $16 million hack
The DeFi protocol was hacked on Thursday, with the attacker allegedly stealing $16 million Indexed Finance, a decentralised finance (DeFi)...
USDC Added to Hedera Hashgraph as Enterprise-Minded Network Eyes DeFi
USDC, the dollar-backed stablecoin used to grease the wheels of cryptocurrency trading, has made its way into the Hedera Hashgraph...
Grayscale Investments hints at possible Bitcoin ETF
The investment manager reportedly awaited SEC's approval for a futures-based Bitcoin ETF before filing an application for its GBTC fund...
All-time high weekly close — 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin (BTC) simply refuses to die this week as a dip below $60,000 barely lasts an hour and bears are burned yet again. After a fairly...
Liquidator of Defunct South African Crypto Exchange Says He Found a 54 BTC Discrepancy in Ice3’s Accounts
A court-appointed liquidator, Dewald Breytenbach of National Liquidators, recently claimed that out of the 76 bitcoins that belonged to...
CME Sees Record Open Interest in Bitcoin Futures Ahead of ETF Debut
The amount of money locked in the bitcoin futures contracts on the global derivatives giant Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) surged to...
Central Bank of Brazil Reports Brazilians Have Bought More Than $4 Billion in Cryptocurrency This Year
Brazilians have brought over $4 billion of cryptocurrencies to the country, according to numbers from the Central Bank of Brazil. The...
As Bitcoin’s Price Spikes Pods of BTC Whales Begin to Shrink in Size
Recent metrics from a variety of analytical web portals show that the quantity of bitcoin whales has been shrinking in recent times. The...
Popular BTM Operator: Bitcoin of America Adds Ethereum to Its Bitcoin ATMs
PRESS RELEASE. Bitcoin of America is a popular virtual currency exchange, registered as a money services business with the United States...
‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Not Shorting Bitcoin, Warns ‘Cryptocurrencies Are in a Bubble’
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, has confirmed that he has not been shorting...
Rich Dad Poor Dad’s Robert Kiyosaki Sees ‘Very Bright’ Future for Bitcoin, Plans to Buy More BTC After Next Pullback
Robert Kiyosaki, the best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, now says bitcoin’s future is “very bright,” after...
Centric Swap leads ‘Uptober’ after a swift 1,000% gain. Here’s why it could go higher
In the past few weeks, Centric Swap (CNS), a dual-token model that gives stakers a fixed hourly yield that “stabilizes over time as it...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ETH, SOL, MATIC, FTM
On Oct. 15, news that a Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) could start trading as early as next week sent Bitcoin price to $62,933...
Coinbase Publishes Proposal for Crypto Regulation Pushing 4 Core Recommendations
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has published its proposal for crypto regulation after “more than 75 meetings with stakeholders in...
The ‘Holding Billionaires Accountable’ Lie — Media, Big Tech Fact Checkers Mischaracterize Angst Toward Biden’s Tax Proposal
U.S. citizens and financial institutions are concerned about the Biden administration’s goals to get banks to report to the...
Next Bitcoin price crash will be ‘shallower’ than 80%, says Pantera Capital CEO
Bitcoin (BTC) market’s tendency to crash by over 80% after logging strong bull runs might come to an end. That is according to a new...
Valve Bans Games Built on Blockchain, NFTs, and Cryptocurrencies From Steam Gaming Platform
This past week, Valve, the parent company of the video game digital distribution service Steam updated its distribution onboarding...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Taunts Economist Steve Hanke After Bitcoin’s Price Skyrockets
On October 15, the day bitcoin’s price surpassed the $60K per unit handle, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele taunted the professor...
Impending Futures-Based Bitcoin ETFs May Boost Cash and Carry Yields
Several bitcoin futures-based exchange-traded funds (ETF) may debut in the U.S. in the coming weeks. These products may revive interest in...
Bitcoin Mining Is Decentralizing – Here’s Proof
There’s at least one industry where the United States now has China beat: bitcoin mining.After Beijing’s crackdown on crypto in September,...
Bitcoin’s Unknown Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Now the 20th Wealthiest Person on Earth
In mid-April the creator of the Bitcoin network, Satoshi Nakamoto entered the world’s top 20 richest billionaire list but after...
Grayscale Said Close to Filing to Convert Bitcoin Fund Into Spot ETF, CNBC Says
Grayscale Investments plans on applying to convert the world’s biggest bitcoin fund into a spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) early this...
BTC price eyes all-time high weekly close above $60K ahead of Bitcoin ETF turbulence
Bitcoin (BTC) faces a pivotal weekly close on Oct. 17 with bulls scrambling to squash final resistance before all-time highs. BTC/USD...
Hester Peirce Reclaims the ‘Wild West’ for the Crypto Industry
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce’s...
Digital Asset Firm Bakkt to Go Public After Completing Merger — BKKT Shares Set to Trade on NYSE Monday
The digital asset company Bakkt Holdings has completed a merger with a firm called VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings and the combined...
President of Mexico Denies Having Interest in Adopting Bitcoin as Legal Tender
The President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, denied having any interest in adopting cryptocurrencies as legal tender in the...
JMP Securities Sees Crypto Entering the Mainstream, Says Adoption Has Hit Escape Velocity
Investment banking and asset management firm JMP Securities says that “The crypto economy is entering the mainstream,”...
US Senator Lummis Thanks God for Bitcoin as Congress Discusses Raising Debt Ceiling
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis said, “Thank God for bitcoin,” during her speech to the Senate about raising the U.S. debt...
Mark Cuban Won’t Invest in Bitcoin ETF, Prefers to Buy BTC Directly
The owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, has said “no” to investing in bitcoin-based exchange-traded funds...
Binance launches $1B BSC fund, BTC futures ETF approval could arrive soon, and Celsius raises $400M: Hodler’s Digest, Oct. 10-16
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst)...
Economics Professor Warns ‘Cryptocurrencies May Contribute to Monetary and Financial Instability’
Cornell University’s professor of economics and former head of the IMF’s China division, Eswar Prasad, has warned that...
Jack Dorsey Says Square Is Considering Building a ‘Bitcoin Mining System Based on Custom Silicon’
Following the latest report from Cambridge University that shows a large percentage of the Bitcoin network’s hashrate resides in...
Why HODL for 48 hours? Because your altcoin wallet will thank you
It might seem that the volatility of digital assets’ prices and the lightning speed with which crypto markets move would mean that those...
Finance Redefined: Celsius raises $400M, and Rari’s 7.5K% yields, Oct. 11—15
Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance (DeFi) newsletter. In a week where Rari Capital achieved the...
Bitcoin entering final stage of major bull trend, crypto analyst says
Trader and cryptocurrency analyst Alessio Rastani believes Bitcoin (BTC) is entering the final stage of the current bull market, which...
The Sure Thing, the Force Multiplier, and the Underdoge
Speaking of Bitcoin on the CoinDesk Podcast Network is brought to you by CrystalBlockchain.com.Why did a joke cryptocurrency with zero...
The Ongoing Effort to Free Ross — Ulbricht’s Clemency Petition Closes in on Half a Million Signatures
As the end of 2021 nears, Ross Ulbricht remains in prison as he continues to serve his draconian double-life prison sentence for creating...
How the Crypto Industry Thinks It Should Be Regulated
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this edition of “The Breakdown Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at two new policy...
Impossible to Run Away From Cryptocurrencies Says Zimbabwe Finance Minister
Zimbabwe’s increasingly pro-crypto finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, recently told his colleagues in government that it is now...
BTC price hovers above $61K amid fresh concerns over fate of physical Bitcoin ETF
Bitcoin (BTC) saw some rare calm on Oct. 16 as the market continued to digest the approval of the United States’ first...
Survey: 14% of Americans Want Crypto Rewards for Using Their Credit Cards
During the last few years, prepaid cards that offer cryptocurrency rewards have grown popular and a number of digital asset payment cards...
Bitcoin Mining Operation Being Sued for Producing High Noise Levels in Tennessee
A bitcoin mining operation in Tennessee is being sued by neighbors due to the high level of noise the facility produces. The lawsuit,...
New SEC Filings Give the Impression US Regulators Approved a Bitcoin Futures ETF
The price of bitcoin jumped over 8% during the last 24 hours after a number of documents stemming from the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
South African Regulator ‘Welcomes’ Binance’s Decision to Terminate Certain Services in the Country
A South African regulator, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA), says it welcomes Binance’s decision to stop offering some...
Estonia Considers Revoking Crypto Licenses as Government Mulls Tougher Regulations
Authorities in Estonia are working on new legislation expected to stiffen the rules for the country’s cryptocurrency sector. The...
Price analysis 10/15: BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, XRP, SOL, DOT, DOGE, LUNA, UNI
Bitcoin (BTC) rose within a few steps of $63,000 today for the first time since April 18. The recent surge in the price may have been...
Tribe Capital to Launch $75M Crypto Fund
Tribe Capital, a venture capital firm with previous investments in Kraken and FTX among others in the crypto sector, is launching a $75...
Traders celebrate Bitcoin’s impending ETF, but options markets are less certain
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, is expected to rule on Oct. 18 whether to approve an application from asset...
Privacy-focused altcoins soar after Bitcoin’s ETF news sparks a market-wide rally
Traders and the market are showing extreme optimism on Oct. 15 after rumors and an assortment of documents suggest that the path toward a...
Putin: Still Early but Crypto Can Be Used for Oil Trade Settlements, Store of Value
Accusing the U.S. of undermining the dollar through money printing and sanctions policy, President Vladimir Putin has admitted that...
Steam Boots Blockchain-Based Video Games From Its Platform
Online gaming giant Steam is kicking blockchain-based video games off its platform.Valve, the company behind Steam, updated its rules and...
Square to Consider Building a Bitcoin Mining System
Payments service provider Square is looking to develop a bitcoin mining system, the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted on Friday.“Square is...
Bitcoin supera los $60.000 tras conocerse que la SEC no impedirá la creación de un ETF de futuros
Bitcoin ha superado los $60.000 por primera vez en casi seis meses tras conocerse que un fondo cotizado (ETF) de futuros de bitcoin será...
Estonia’s New Anti-Money Laundering Chief Wants Stricter Rules for Crypto Licenses
Matis Mäeker, recently appointed head of Estonia’s anti-money laundering government agency, believes Estonia should scrap its current...
Four Venture Capitalists Just Over-Subscribed Ertha’s Seed Funding Round in One Day
Ertha’s metaverse, built on Binance smart chain, has just concluded a seed funding round. The project has garnered interest from...
SEC Approves Bitcoin ETF, Opening Crypto to Wider Investor Base
After years of trial and error by would-be fund sponsors, cryptocurrency investing is finally opening up to the masses with the first-ever...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Reaches $61K as SEC’s ETF Deadline Nears
Bitcoin rose to $61,000 Friday as traders eagerly anticipate approval of a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the U.S. Enthusiasm for...
Crypto Finally Makes the Cut in OCC’s 2022 Bank Supervision Operating Plan
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its 2022 Bank Supervision Operating Plan on Friday and for the first time,...
Bitcoin all-time highs ‘just a matter of time’ after a BTC ETF approval looks certain
Optimism is bordering euphoria in the cryptocurrency market after a trove of documents pointing toward the eventual approval of...
Coinbase Wants Coders to Help With Its Crypto Regulation Proposal
Fresh on the heels of Coinbase asking the U.S. government to create a new regulator to oversee the cryptocurrency industry, the exchange...
CFTC Fines Stablecoin Issuer Tether and Crypto Exchange Bitfinex $42.5 Million
On Friday, October 15, 2021, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it had ordered the company Tether...