25,000 Blockchain Firms in China Tried to Issue Cryptos, Senior Official Claims

news BitGo is processing more than 20 percent of bitcoin transactions, the company said at CoinDesk’s Invest: NYC conference today. The announcement by the crypto custodian and issuer of hot and cold storage wallets means that a sizable share of on-chain transactions pass through its services, a sign of consolidation, and power, in the crypto…

Crypto storage technology firm Qredo has revamped its self-custody wallet platform, bringing to market a cheap, open source option for institutional crypto traders that no longer want to risk allowing digital assets to be held by others in centralized situations.Like the earlier version of the protocol, New Qredo, announced on Tuesday, uses clever key sharding…

Coinbase is the latest exchange to offer staking services for the rebooted Ethereum network.Feb 16, 2021 at 5:45 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 16, 2021 at 5:53 p.m. UTCCoinbase Opens Waitlist for Ethereum 2.0 StakingCoinbase’s waitlist for Ethereum 2.0 staking is live.Per a press release shared with CoinDesk, Coinbase customers can now sign up to stake their…

ARK Invest continues to shift out of ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) and into its own recently listed spot bitcoin ETF.According to a trading disclosure sent out on Jan. 18, the ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) sold 758,915 shares of BITO, worth approximately $15 million, and bought 365,695 shares of ARKB, its own bitcoin

news Before Libra, Juan Llanos still saw some outsiders who could have taken on the payments and remittance markets. Now, after Libra, he’s not so sure. “When Libra was announced mid-June … the first thing that came to mind after reading the White Paper, obviously, is that the payments use case is already theirs,” he…

1. The Crypto Job Market is Hot This headline may be an understatement. A recently posted job on LinkedIn for a Crypto Product Marketing Manager received more than 500 applicants in just five days. As Web3 becomes more mainstream, there is an incredible uptick in the demand for roles in crypto and blockchain companies. While

Binance will stop accepting new U.K. users starting Monday in order to comply with the country's crypto marketing rules, the company said in a blog post.Under the new regime – which kicked in on Oct.8 – firms that are registered with the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) can approve their own ads. Failing that, companies

news Bitcoin has set a new price high for 2019, reaching as high as $11,304 today before conceding a short-term period of profit taking. At 21:00 UTC on June 23, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization shot upwards on the daily chart, cementing a new high beyond June 22’s peak of $11,215. The move…

Secondary markets for trading points will provide access for people who want to reduce or increase exposure to points but are unable to do so, and improve price discovery, said Rumpel Labs CEO Kenton Prescott. The project is backed by some big-name VCs like Dragonfly and Variant. Rumpel Labs, a startup that builds tokenization infrastructure