Monthly Archives: December 2020

PodcastsMarkets Daily Crypto RoundupLISTEN: Linda Lacewell, a Friendlier Regulator – Most Influential 2020Listen onIcons/Big/Google-PodcastsApple PodcastsIcons/Big/SpotifySpotifyIcons/Big/PocketcastsPocket CastsIcons/Big/Apple-PodcastsGoogle PodcastsIcons/Big/CastboxCastboxIcons/Big/StitcherStitcherIcons/Big/RadioPublicRadioPublicIcons/Big/RssRSS FeedDec 30, 2020Adam B. LevineHostLyllah LedesmaHostIn this special episode of Markets Daily, CoinDesk’s Lyllah Ledesma reads Nikhilesh De’s profile of Linda Lacewell, one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential People in 2020.This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io.Other Episodes LISTEN:…

Dec 30, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. UTCHow DeFi ‘Degens’ Are Funding the Next Wave of Open-Source DevelopmentIn 2020, decentralized finance was Ethereum’s trend of the year – and with that honor came a thousand new terms and even more memes. But more importantly, the success of DeFi proved an essential quality of Ethereum this year:…

Dec 30, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. UTCCBDCs: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?In 1987, Nobel laureate James Tobin proposed the concept of a retail central bank digital currency. The idea was that central banks should create a public payments “medium with the convenience of deposits and the safety of currency.”It was a novel idea, which…

Dec 30, 2020 at 3:21 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 30, 2020 at 3:23 p.m. UTCRipple CEO Brad Garlinghouse(Zack Seward/CoinDesk archives)Ripple to Meet With SEC in First Pretrial Conference on Feb. 22The first pretrial conference in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against Ripple for the sale of XRP has been set for Feb. 22, 2021.Ripple…