Monthly Archives: July 2019

news Bitfinex and Tether have spent half a million dollars just on finding documents for the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) office, a new letter by its lawyers says. In the letter filed with the New York Supreme Court Tuesday, attorneys Jason Weinstein and Charles Michael of Steptoe and Johnson LLP, and David Miller and…

news Muneeb Ali, CEO of Blockstack, is attempting to build a decentralized internet where users have control over their own data. In this interview with Coindesk’s Leigh Cuen he discusses how his firm’s native utility token gained Reg A+ regulatory approval and what that means for the industry. “This is the first time ever that…

news Coinbase executive Tim Wagner is leaving the crypto exchange after slightly over a year on the job. Other high-ranking engineering staffers are leaving too, CoinDesk has learned. Wagner, Coinbase’s vice president of engineering, will be departing in the next two weeks, a Coinbase spokesperson confirmed. The departure will leave a vacancy on the company’s…

news The Philipines’ UnionBank has issued its own stablecoin, PHX, according to Filipino media outlet PhilStar Global. With the issuance, the bank also conducted the first blockchain-based transaction by a Filipino bank.  The PHX stablecoin is pegged to the Philipino peso and backed by UnionBank reserves. “PHX is a stable store of value, medium of exchange…

news Securitize, a firm that enables the issuance and management digital securities, announced its tenth on-chain digital asset. The Curzio Equity Owners’s (CEO) token represents an equity stake in the financial publishing analytics firm Curzio Research’s newsletter business. The token presents a path to invest in a “scalable, high-margin industry that is normally difficult for…