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Via Coindesk – 8:35 am November 15, 2019
Speaking at CoinDesk's Invest NYC, Heath Tarbert addressed ethereum futures markets and the move to a proof-of-stake model with Ethereum 2.0.

Via Coindesk – 9:35 pm November 14, 2019
The brother of OneCoin's infamous Cryptoqueen, Konstantin Ignatov has reached a plea deal with U.S. authorities.

Via Coindesk – 9:35 pm November 14, 2019
Despite online impostors claiming otherwise, the Peoples Bank of China said the countrys stablecoin project is still in the testing phase.

Via Coindesk – 9:35 pm November 14, 2019
It's one of the largest venture capital investments in a decentralized finance DeFi startup to date.

Via Coindesk – 9:35 pm November 14, 2019
The U.S.-based custody bank is looking to offer fractions of tokenized bonds to retail and small professional investors. n

Via Coindesk – 9:35 pm November 14, 2019
The FBI has arrested two individuals on charges of stealing and attempting to steal $550,000 in cryptocurrency by SIM swapping 10 victims.

Via Coindesk – 9:35 pm November 14, 2019
There may be a way for cryptocurrency businesses to get around New York's notoriously hard-to-get BitLicense, and it runs through Wyoming.

Via Coindesk – 4:45 pm November 14, 2019
PayPal has abruptly cut its payments service to thousands of live performers on Pornhub. Will its only crypto payout option, verge, see more use

Via Coindesk – 4:45 pm November 14, 2019
Bitcoin may soon face selling pressure, courtesy of an impending bear cross. Longer term, though, the picture may be less gloomy for the bulls.

Via Coindesk – 4:45 pm November 14, 2019
The exchange has added new crypto options to its Visa debit card, including XRP, XLM and REP, and also expanded availability to 10 more nations.

Via Coindesk – 4:45 pm November 14, 2019
Insurance broker Marsh has arranged a $150 million policy fromLloyds of London syndicate Arch for users of the Ledger Vault crypto custody platform.

Via Coindesk – 4:45 pm November 14, 2019
The company now offers 6.5 percent interest on earnings held in Coinmine wallets.

Via Coindesk – 10:35 am November 14, 2019
Amun AG has listed a Tezos XTZ-based exchange-traded product on the Swiss SIX exchange.

Via Coindesk – 10:35 am November 14, 2019
The exchange, along with its existing wallet and debit card service, readies Crypto.com for rainy days and bull runs alike, CEO Kris Marszalek said.

Via Coindesk – 10:35 am November 14, 2019
Samsung SDS, the enterprise tech arm of the South Korean behemoth, is enhancing privacy on its Nexledger blockchain with zero-knowledge proofs.n

Via Coindesk – 3:40 am November 14, 2019
OneConnect Financial Technology, the banking and blockchain arm of China's largest insurance company, filed a prospectus with the SEC on Wednesday.

Via Coindesk – 12:45 am November 14, 2019
Canaan, the world's second-largest bitcoin miner maker, is aiming to raise $100 million with its initial public offering.

Via Coindesk – 9:00 pm November 13, 2019
Messari's funding round was led by Uncork Capital and joined by Coinbase Ventures and Balaji Srinivasan, among others.

Via Coindesk – 3:35 pm November 13, 2019
The startup looks to boost mainstream crypto adoption by making it easier for developers to put crypto wallets in their applications.

Via Coindesk – 3:35 pm November 13, 2019
Kik has hit a brick wall with its ambitious void for vagueness defense in a case brought by theSEC over its $100 million initial coin offering.

Via Coindesk – 1:30 pm November 13, 2019
A new trial will examine if digitalizing fixed income securities with DLT can bring new efficiencies to the Asian markets.

Via Coindesk – 1:30 pm November 13, 2019
Messaging app firm Telegram has made a new plea to a U.S. court to drop an action brought by the SEC alleging its token is a security.

Via Coindesk – 1:30 pm November 13, 2019
The first ever cryptocurrency firm to be listed on a major stock exchange has launched a new bitcoin fund.

Via Coindesk – 9:20 am November 13, 2019
There are now several competing approaches to building a new financial system, writes Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire. Which will governments embrace

Via Coindesk – 10:35 pm November 12, 2019
Bakkt aims to offer cash-settled bitcoin futures before 2020 to complement its physically settled contracts.

Via Coindesk – 8:55 pm November 12, 2019
The crypto custodian facilitates a sizable share of on-chain transactions, a sign of consolidation, and power, in the crypto space.

Via Coindesk – 8:55 pm November 12, 2019
Despite an earlier denial, Justin Sun is part of an investment group buying troubled crypto exchange Poloniex.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm November 12, 2019
Chinas proposed digital yuan should strike a balance between protecting privacy and regulatory enforcement, a central bank official said.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm November 12, 2019
The software provider is adding support for margin trading, with a raft of trading options and controls for crypto brokerages and exchanges.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm November 12, 2019
One year afterits formation, the Association of Digital Asset Markets ADAM has drafted a code of conduct for its now 15 members.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm November 12, 2019
The Web3 Foundation is studying how to adopt blockchain startup Kadenas smart contract programming language for the Polkadot ecosystem.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm November 12, 2019
Huobi Chain, the regulator-facing public blockchain of exchange Huobi Group, is now open source and available to all developers on GitHub.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm November 12, 2019
Kryptos is the firms first product for institutions, joining KYT, an anti money laundering tool, and Reactor, which traces criminal money flow.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm November 12, 2019
The regulated firm is opening up its stablecoin-to-USD swaps facility to third parties, starting with Binance.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm November 12, 2019
Chicago exchange CME Group has announced it will launch options on its bitcoin futures contracts in mid-January.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm November 12, 2019
In a sweeping rejection, the central bank quashed unfounded rumors that it had become the first monetary authority to issue a CBDC. n

Via Coindesk – 12:05 pm November 12, 2019
The fintech arm of Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group said it expects the blockchain to go live in around three months.

Via Coindesk – 12:05 pm November 12, 2019
Mobile crypto wallet and investment app Abra is adding a host of new coins and doubling its U.S. bank deposit limits for U.S. customers.

Via Coindesk – 10:15 am November 12, 2019
The shipping giant says it has tracked and delivered a full shipment of beef from Kansas to a Tokyo steakhouse with help from blockchain firm HerdX.

Via Coindesk – 10:15 am November 12, 2019
Bobby Cho, former trading head at Cumberland, has formed a crypto prop-trading firm with former two Circle execs.

Via Coindesk – 10:15 am November 12, 2019
HTC's special edition EXODUS blockchain smartphone will allow users to directly access Binance's decentralized exchange and token.

Via Coindesk – 2:30 am November 12, 2019
Banque de France is seeking a blockchain analyst who will help the bank define a program for implementing digital currency.

Via Coindesk – 2:30 am November 12, 2019
Bithumb plans to launch a native token on top of its namesake blockchain next year.

Via Coindesk – 10:35 pm November 11, 2019
Lolli will offer Alibaba customers bitcoin back on their purchases with a new partnership.

Via Coindesk – 10:35 pm November 11, 2019
BnkToTheFuture invested in a SEC-registered broker dealer to enable U.S. investors participate in security token offerings.

Via Coindesk – 10:35 pm November 11, 2019
Maximum transactions How a project called EIDOS is congesting the EOS blockchain.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm November 11, 2019
The ICE subsidiary plans to open up its bitcoin warehouse following approval from New York's financial watchdog.

Via Coindesk – 2:45 pm November 11, 2019
Coeure is to lead the new BIS Innovation Hub in researching and perhaps developing fintech with benefits, such as digital currencies.

Via Coindesk – 1:35 pm November 11, 2019
Crypto exchange Bittrex is looking to return crypto holdings to customers in sanctioned nations, but there are conditions.

Via Coindesk – 1:00 pm November 11, 2019
The startups building Cosmos don't own it or rely solely on it for income. And that's the point.

Via Coindesk – 1:00 pm November 11, 2019
Bitcoin is on slippery ground after two weekly losses in a row and multiple rejections at key price resistance.

Via Coindesk – 10:35 am November 11, 2019
DHS has hired Mavennet to track oil imports into the U.S. by retrofitting existing tracking technology with blockchain.

Via Coindesk – 10:00 am November 11, 2019
Since NASDAQ acquired Sweden's Cinnober last year, blockchain lead Eric Wall has left the exchange business for bitcoin investment fund Arcane Crypto.

Via Coindesk – 10:00 am November 11, 2019
Working with JPMorgan and Temasek, Singapore's central bank has developed a prototype blockchain-based cross border payments system.

Via Coindesk – 12:05 pm November 10, 2019
According to regression models and historical precedent, the upcoming bitcoin halving will boost the market price. So why isnt that already priced inn

Via Coindesk – 10:45 am November 9, 2019
Bitcoin's lightning network might have a use case beyond faster and more scalable payments, thanks to an experimental version called Whatsat.

Via Coindesk – 2:30 am November 9, 2019
Bitcoin has fallen below $9,000 for the first time in two weeks after breaching its 200-day moving average, which had been seen as a price supportby some traders using technical analysis.

Via Coindesk – 2:30 am November 9, 2019
Tencent received the green light from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to build a blockchain-based virtual bank.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm November 8, 2019
Wile the number of ads being posted in the space has grown, job seeker interest has plummeted, according to Indeed data.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm November 8, 2019
On this episode of Bitcoin Macro The fact that it works and that it has been working for 10 years has value.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm November 8, 2019
On this episode of Bitcoin Macro In the 1800s we had a bubble in railroads, and almost every one of them went bankrupt.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm November 8, 2019
On this episode of Bitcoin Macro For traditional investors, it's sort of a challenging paradigm when these three things are wrapped together.

Via Coindesk – 2:05 pm November 8, 2019
The two Fairfax County, Virginia, pension funds invested only 0.5 percent in crypto and blockchain last year.

Via Coindesk – 1:35 pm November 8, 2019
Christoper Wray said crypto is becoming a bigger and bigger issue for the agency in a Senate hearing with Mitt Romney.

Via Coindesk – 1:35 pm November 8, 2019
The founder and CEO of bitcoin miner maker MicroBT is being held by police, a source says it's to assist an investigation over a business dispute.

Via Coindesk – 11:50 am November 8, 2019
Tether says its USDT stablecoin is fully backed by reserves, after reporting in April its token was only 74 backed.

Via Coindesk – 11:50 am November 8, 2019
Bitcoin looks on track to produce a bullish long-term signal not seen in 3.5 years.

Via Coindesk – 9:35 am November 8, 2019
Brian Haney, a former narcotics trafficker, pled guilty to charges that he laundered $19 million in bitcoin on Silk Road.

Via Coindesk – 9:05 am November 8, 2019
Asian banking giant DBS and multinational commodity trading firm Trafigura Group are tapping blockchain to facilitate global trade.

Via Coindesk – 7:05 am November 8, 2019
FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra cited Libra concerns in his letter supporting the Fed's potential FedNow real-time payments service.

Via Coindesk – 1:00 am November 8, 2019
MakerDAO loans now hold more than $339 million worth of ether. With the launch of multi-collateral DAI set for later this month, what comes next

Via Coindesk – 11:15 pm November 7, 2019
Stellar's first-ever conference in Mexico City gathered entrepreneurs eager to lean into global financial regulations.

Via Coindesk – 11:15 pm November 7, 2019
Wilshire Phoenix believes balancing funds between BTC and T-bills may convince the SEC that its bitcoin ETF proposal is better than the rest.

Via Coindesk – 11:15 pm November 7, 2019
The CFTC has granted Tassat a swap execution facility registration, bringing it one step closer to offering US customers bitcoin derivatives products.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm November 7, 2019
Russian regulators will begin developing proposals for legislation allowing confiscation of crypto assets seized in crime investigations.

Via Coindesk – 5:25 pm November 7, 2019
Can an altcoin outgrow its founders A new agreement between Electric Coin Company and the Zcash Foundation could be a good first step.

Via Coindesk – 5:25 pm November 7, 2019
Silvergate is seeking as much as $65 million with its IPO debut on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday.

Via Coindesk – 5:25 pm November 7, 2019
Authorities arrested five suspected in the theft of almost 100 bitcoin machines.

Via Coindesk – 2:55 pm November 7, 2019
The ethereum-based platform is aimed to do away with price and accommodation disparities in the travel industry.

Via Coindesk – 1:45 pm November 7, 2019
U.K.-based crypto exchange CEX.io says it's joined the Silvergate Exchange Network, the payment rail of the go-to bank for crypto in the U.S..

Via Coindesk – 1:05 pm November 7, 2019
Coinbase is for the first time allowing general users to earn rewards by simply holding cryptocurrency, starting with theTezos XTZ token.

Via Coindesk – 11:50 am November 7, 2019
Missed our webinar on crypto derivatives Read the takeaways from CoinDesk Research's chat with OTC trading pros Yingfeng Shao and Martin Garcia.nn

Via Coindesk – 11:50 am November 7, 2019
Hong Kongs securities regulator says the world needs a united response to stablecoins like Libra to avoid firms setting up in laxer jurisdictions.

Via Coindesk – 11:50 am November 7, 2019
The People's Bank has said blockchain is a solution to trade finance asymmetries in the latest promotion of the tech in China.

Via Coindesk – 11:50 am November 7, 2019
Bitcoin has been tiptoeing along key support, but evaporating bullish sentiment may see prices roll over to levels below $9,000.

Via Coindesk – 8:40 am November 7, 2019
AAX, a Hong Kong-based crypto exchange that uses the London Stock Exchange's matching engine technology, has officially launched.

Via Coindesk – 8:40 am November 7, 2019
Canaan, the world's second-largest bitcoin miner maker, has recorded $13 million in net profit for Q3 2019, following bitcoin price's bull run since April this year.

Via Coindesk – 3:15 am November 7, 2019
MUFG launched a 22-member research consortium of security issuers, broker dealers and tech companies to set standards for security token management.

Via Coindesk – 3:15 am November 7, 2019
Bitmain's co-founder Micree Zhan, who was abruptly ousted from the firm last week, said he's going to take legal action to secure his return to the firm.

Via Coindesk – 11:20 pm November 6, 2019
In a wide-ranging video interview, Binance CEO CZ rejectsthe popular perception of his crypto exchange as a global crypto pirate.nn

Via Coindesk – 11:20 pm November 6, 2019
Square processed $148 million in bitcoin sales in the third quarter of 2019.

Via Coindesk – 11:20 pm November 6, 2019
Deribit CEO John Jansen says the crypto exchange's $1.3 million payment to investors helped them stay competitive.

Via Coindesk – 7:30 pm November 6, 2019
Square's Cash App has started charging fees of as much as 1.76 percent on bitcoin purchases,sources have pointed out to CoinDesk.

Via Coindesk – 7:30 pm November 6, 2019
Contrary to earlier reports, a source tells CoinDesk the EU isn't looking to issue its own digital currency in response to Libra.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm November 6, 2019
China's top economic planning agency has remove bitcoin mining from a list of industries to be phased out from the country.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm November 6, 2019
Nervos Network plans to launch its Lina blockchain next week, on the heels of securing $72 million through a token sale on Coinlist.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm November 6, 2019
Prosecutors allege that Asa Saint Clair lured investors to invest in the World Sports Alliance using his IGOBIT digital currency.

Via Coindesk – 2:35 pm November 6, 2019
Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance has agreed to help Ukraine prepare rules for cryptocurrencies.

Via Coindesk – 2:35 pm November 6, 2019
Bitfinex and a blockchain project launched by Kim Dotcom have mutually agreed to part ways, scuppering an IEO for the kimcoin token.

Via Coindesk – 1:35 pm November 6, 2019
Bithumb Global is launching an exchange-as-a-service platform through its new namesake blockchain platform.