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Frax Finance's Layer 2 Fraxtal to Debut in February: Founder
18.1.2024
Kazemian expects Fraxtal to debut with a bang, attracting at least several hundred million dollars worth of crypto assets in the first month
Donald Trump Promises to "Never Allow" Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) if Elected
18.1.2024
Former President Donald Trump joins Ron DeSantis as a critic of CBDCs
EU Provisionally Agrees Tough Crypto Due Diligence Measures to Combat Money Laundering
18.1.2024
Crypto firms have to do checks on transactions of 1000 euro or more, and the framework adds measures to mitigate risks in transfers with self-hosted wallets
The Protocol: MetaMask's Secret Weapon and Ethereum's Dencun Debacle
17.1.2024
In this issue of CoinDesk's weekly newsletter on blockchain technology, we bring you Sam Kessler's scoop on MetaMask's in-development "intents" feature that could revolutionize how users interact with blockchains. Also: a post-mortem on Ethereum's unexpectedly ugly Dencun testnet upgrade – and...
Coinbase and SEC Dig in With U.S. Judge on Whether Securities Law Applies to Listings
17.1.2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) case against Coinbase delves into a ton of complexity, but before anything else, a judge has to decide whether transactions in about a dozen tokens traded on the U.S. exchange were securities
Does Howard Lutnick Know ‘the Truth’ About Tether?
17.1.2024
Speaking at Davos, the Cantor Fitzgerald CEO says the stablecoin issuer has the money to back USDT. Maybe it’s time we all started to believe in Tether, despite the “truthers”?
Bitcoin ETF Net Inflows Near $1B After Three Days
17.1.2024
Grayscale's GBTC has seen sizable outflows as investors cash following its conversion to a spot ETF
dYdX Tops Uniswap as Largest DEX by Volume
17.1.2024
The decentralized exchange, which last year moved over to the Cosmos blockchain, just saw $757 million of volume over a 24-hour period
Bitcoin and Ethereum to Lead Altcoins Higher in 2024
17.1.2024
The rise of bitcoin and ethereum, and more favorable macro conditions, could be good news for altcoins this year, says Todd Groth, head of research at CoinDesk Indices
Bernstein Says Buy the Dip in Bitcoin Mining Stocks Ahead of BTC Price 'Inflection'
17.1.2024
The broker says it prefers outperform rated mining stocks Riot Platforms (RIOT) and CleanSpark (CLSK)
How Tokenized Assets Can Replace Money
17.1.2024
And why universal payments using fractionized assets is unlikely to happen soon
Why 2024 Will Be Bitcoin's Year
17.1.2024
ETF approvals and a halving set for April will change the supply-and-demand dynamic of bitcoin, likely sending the price higher, says John Stec at Global X
MetaMask’s Secret ‘Intents’ Project Could Radically Change How Users Interact With Blockchains
17.1.2024
MetaMask is quietly testing new tech that uses third parties to route user transactions. It will eventually be made available outside of MetaMask and will be closely scrutinized for how it manages to avoid centralization concerns
Jamie Dimon Bashes Bitcoin Again: 'A Pet Rock'
17.1.2024
The JPMorgan CEO said this will be the last time he airs his opinion on bitcoin
Test and Deploy: A New Era for CBDCs
17.1.2024
Unstoppable and Push Protocol Launch Token-gated Group Chat + More Crypto News
17.1.2024
Source: unstoppabledomains.com Get your daily, bite-sized digest of blockchain and crypto news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. In this edition: Unstoppable and Push Protocol Launch Token-gated Group Chat for Unstoppable Messaging Circle and Tether...
'The Dow' for Crypto Markets? New CoinDesk 20 Index Underpins Futures Contracts at Bullish
17.1.2024
Perpetual futures tied to the index at crypto exchange Bullish, which owns CoinDesk, could help the CoinDesk 20 become a widely followed benchmark akin to the 128-year-old Dow Jones Industrial Average
First Mover Americas: Altcoins Lead, Bitcoin in Stasis Near $42.6K
17.1.2024
The latest price moves in bitcoin [BTC] and crypto markets in context for Jan. 17, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets
ARK Buys $15.9M Worth of Its Own Bitcoin ETF
17.1.2024
ARK sold a similar amount - $15.8 million - worth of shares in the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO), the first ETF linked to the bitcoin futures market to list in the U.S
Bitcoin's ‘De-Dollarization’ Narrative Loses Ground As USD Tightens Its Grip on International Transactions
17.1.2024
The crypto market's de-dollarization expectations look premature as the greenback remained the preferred currency in international transactions in 2023