CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – At exactly 12:29 EST on Thursday, a crypto wallet built by developers at SpaceChain hurtled into the stratosphere aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. When it arrived at the International Space Station, the 1kg node – only Read More
At exactly 12:29 EST on Thursday, a crypto wallet built by developers at SpaceChain hurtled into the stratosphere aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. When it arrives at the International Space Station, the 1kg node – only a fraction of SpaceX Read More
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Today we’re asking: how can public blockchains have privacy? Let’s Talk Bitcoin! is a long-running independent podcast on the ideas, people and projects powering the cryptocurrency narrative. On this show, Read More
Matthew Prewitt is a cryptoeconomic advisor at Amentum Capital and co-lead of the RadicalxChange. Steven McKie is the CEO of Amentum Capital. The views expressed are those of the authors. One of the most interesting recent developments in cryptocurrency is the Read More
Ethereum has successfully completed the Istanbul hard fork. Hitting at block number 9,069,000, the systemwide upgrade is the network’s third in 2019, following February’s St. Petersburg and Constantinople hard forks. The months-long process culminated at 0:25 UTC on Sunday. Another Read More
Galen Moore is a Senior Research Analyst at CoinDesk. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a weekly newsletter focused on institutional investment in crypto assets. Sign up for free here. Bitcoin’s price volatility has been a source of Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants Telegram’s former chief investment advisor to testify and hand over documents related to the company’s $1.7 billion 2018 token sale. The SEC has asked the High Court of England and Wales to Read More
The majority of asset managers that bank with State Street are interested in digital assets such as bitcoin, but none have asked the global custodian to store them yet. “We’re talking to them less about ‘Can you custody this,’ and Read More
The New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) has secured approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offer institutional investors shares of a new fund focused on bitcoin futures. According to a filing published on an SEC database Read More
Microsoft’s collaboration with blockchain gaming startup Enjin has prompted a roughly 50 percent surge in the project’s native token over a two-day period. Enjin coin (ENJ) started to rise sharply from Wednesday afternoon (UTC) as news spread of a rewards Read More
As American cryptocurrency markets remain relatively subdued, investors are turning to Asia for fresh lifeblood. Case and point, Multicoin Capital just hired Beijing-based investor Mable Jiang, formerly of Nirvana Capital, to spearhead the venture firm’s hunt for new deals in Read More
IDEX, the top decentralized exchange (DEX) for ERC-20 tokens in 2019, according to etherscan, is launching a new DEX on top of Rollup technology, a Layer 2 scalability protocol only made possible through Ethereum’s latest “Istanbul” hard fork. As part Read More
Tune in as CoinDesk podcasts editor Adam B. Levine and senior markets reporter Brad Keoun run down recent action in the markets, interesting longer-term trends and some of the most important crypto industry developments of the day. Having trouble with Read More
Do good work, earn a “badger.” That’s the idea behind a new incentives scheme launched by Microsoft in partnership with blockchain gaming project Enjin. Dubbed Azure Heroes, a new web page for the initiative describes its as a “new and Read More
Sean Neville, Circle’s co-CEO, will be stepping down from his role at the end of the month. Neville, who co-founded the Boston-based payments firm in 2014 with Jeremy Allaire, said in an email obtained by CoinDesk that he notified the Read More
Tune in as CoinDesk podcasts editor Adam B. Levine and senior markets reporter Brad Keoun run down recent action in the markets, interesting longer-term trends and some of the most important crypto industry developments of the day. Having trouble with Read More
View Bitcoin’s drop from $7,870 to $7,087 (Wednesday’s low) may turn out to be a bear trap due to falling selling volumes and bear exhaustion indicated on the daily chart. A re-test of $7,870 could be in the offing – Read More
If “digital gold” means “a safe-haven asset where investors park their money during financial market turmoil,” then bitcoin doesn’t fit the bill as well as it used to. For most of the year, bitcoin’s price showed a modestly negative correlation Read More
State Street, the global custodian bank, has taken a new direction with its blockchain strategy and cut scores of developer jobs in the process, people familiar with the situation said. The focus is now more on digital assets such as Read More
Did Virgil Griffith go too far with the idea of ethereum as a “world computer”? The Ethereum Foundation researcher was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on Thanksgiving for traveling to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) earlier this Read More
