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Bitcoin traders have been betting for years the largest cryptocurrency by market cap could serve as an effective hedge against inflation....

Bitcoin (BTC) fell slightly into the Wall Street open on Jan. 11 after the largest cryptocurrency failed to crack resistance above...

Kevin O’Leary is a centimillionaire, a businessperson on reality TV and a crypto bag holder. He’s one of many, many traditional investors...

Decentralized finance, better known as DeFi, may not be “decentralized” enough as attackers exploited centralized weak points to drain...

Late on Sunday, Jan. 9, DeSo founder Nader Al-Naji announced that his “decentralized social media” service would update its login flow,...

On January 10, 2022, the Associated Press (AP), the American non-profit news cooperative founded in 1846, has announced the news agency is...

Ether (ETH) has been an emotional rollercoaster over the past three months primarily because its price rallied twice. First, it peaked at...

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,...

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...

One of the most important (yet somehow quiet) narratives of 2019 has been the financialization of bitcoin and the emergence of a robust...

Bitcoin's Lightning Network-powered app Strike has launched its services in Argentina, the company announced Tuesday.Argentines will be...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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Authorities in Iran are preparing to allow the employment of cryptocurrencies for international settlements. According to local media,...

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...

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...

With Binance expanding its miner ambitions and Thailand's CBDC seeing early use, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back with another bitcoin...

After a sluggish start to 2022, Oasis Network (ROSE) is finally rebounding sharply. The token appears to have weathered the crypto storm...

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...

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeToday on “The Breakdown,” a check in on El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele...

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) appears to be establishing an upward trend line that could see it surge towards $33. The coin has in fact been one of the...

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Many people think crypto is full of flinty libertarians and Shiba-chasing degens. But anyone who’s hung around crypto for a while knows...

As crypto-assets grew immensely in value last year, the growth of the stablecoin economy swelled as well and today, there’s $170.24...

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...

Whether you’re looking to create your first non-fungible token (NFT), lend assets on a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol or simply buy...

A new project is hoping to address a key aspect of user experience that Web 3 currently lacks – the ability for protocols, contracts and...

Police in South Africa are looking into criminal cases brought by investors claiming to have been defrauded by Africrypt, a crypto...

A farming simulator clogged a popular blockchain for days on end last week. Now a new research report from blockchain analytics firm...

This episode is sponsored by Kava.Today's Stories:Bitcoin’s Nearly 40% Slide Weighs on Crypto Stocks While Coinbase OutperformsStock...

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...

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, an early-stage investment firm with $140 million in assets under management, has announced a new $75 million fund...

Lootex, a multi-chain non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, has closed a $9 million seed funding round co-led by Spartan Capital, Infinity...

Venture capital firms Paradigm Capital and Sequoia Capital have agreed to invest $1.15 billion in electronic trading giant Citadel...

Digital currencies had a phenomenal year, and a great deal of the crypto assets in existence reached all-time high (ATH) prices against...

Luxor Technology, the bitcoin and crypto service provider, is starting a new brokerage business for buying and selling high-performance...

Unstoppable Domains, a startup creating identity applications suited to a blockchain-based Web 3 world, has launched a single sign-on...

Nasdaq-listed Iris Energy’s (IREN) average hashrate was up 14% month on month in December 2021 while operating revenue fell 6.4%, the...

Utah-based tax software firm TaxBit has launched the TaxBit Network – a partnership between TaxBit and 20 top crypto companies including...

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 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,...

Tokens of Near (NEAR) and Cosmos (ATOM) were among the only gainers among major cryptocurrencies in the past 24 hours as the broader...

Canadian capital pooling company Valdy Investments completed the takeover of securities token platform INX and subsequently changed its...

Fintechs account for nearly two-thirds of the $4.9 billion that was raised by African technology firms during the past year. Fintech...

Major global cryptocurrency exchange Binance has hired former government officials from Russia and Ukraine to help develop its business in...

Cryptocurrencies continue to face downward pressure as sentiment across the equity market also weighs on crypto assets. Popular crypto...

Bitcoin (BTC) has taken a beating over the past two months, bringing pain for digital assets and blockchain-related stocks, most of which...

The crypto market as a whole is bearish today. US markets were mixed yesterday, with the threat of multiple upcoming rate rises causing...

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has confirmed that the country is making investments to secure a geothermal power source for...

Indian financial services giant Axis Bank issued a financial contract between two domestic businesses by using a government-backed...

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, an Ethereum competitor touting throughput on the order of 100,000 transactions per second, is acquiring Utrust, a Portugal-based...

Binance is thrilled to announce that it is an official sponsor of the 2021 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament, taking...

Payments startup Bottlepay said it has been approved by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to carry out crypto-asset activities in the...

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...

Tokens of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Olympus (OHM) dropped as much as 32% in the past 24 hours as crypto traders moved away...

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...

Tokens of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Olympus (OHM) dropped as much as 32% in the past 24 hours as crypto traders moved away...

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%...

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%...

On Monday, January 10, the Argentina-based mobile wallet company Belo announced that the platform has added support for the Lightning...

LooksRare, a recently launched nonfungible token, or NFT, marketplace, says it wants to index all NFT collections on the Ethereum...

Sega, a leading videogame development company, has announced its new stance when it comes to the play-to-earn model and the inclusion of...

PRESS RELEASE. EverRise launches their fifth decentralized application (dApp) today, EverSwap, a multi-chain decentralized exchange (DEX),...

Yellow Card has announced the resumption of naira deposits and withdrawals in Nigeria via a statement from the cryptocurrency exchange...

U.K. lawmakers have formed the Crypto and Digital Assets Group to ensure that new rules for the crypto industry support innovation....

This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.Download this episodeLast week, the December FOMC meeting minutes revealed that not...

The use of crypto payments to facilitate illegal human and drug trafficking is rising, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is...

Estonian Finance Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus has offered to share her country’s experience in regulating cryptocurrencies with...

The SEC seeks more regulatory enforcement in the crypto sector in 2022, according to chair Gary Gensler. US Securities and Exchange...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged Monday that blockchain-based trading platform tZERO violated federal disclosure...

Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Market moves: Bitcoin fell below $40,000 briefly as U.S. stocks continued to drop thanks to a newly...

Bitcoin (BTC) dipped below the $40,000 level on Jan. 10 for the first time since September 2021. The crypto markets were not alone as the...

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has claimed officials will be able to use geothermal energy from one of the country’s inactive...