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Krisztian Sandor is a reporter on the U.S. markets team focusing on stablecoins and institutional investment. He holds BTC and ETH.Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Lido Finance has surpassed six million ether (ETH) deposited on its liquid staking platform amid steady inflows following the Ethereum blockchain’s Shanghai upgrade.Lido has enjoyed a net inflow of 105,644 ETH…

news Multiple criminal investigative agencies within the U.S. are looking into the circumstances of the now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX. According to a press release published Monday, the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division (IRS-CI), the U.S. Attorney General’s office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and…

Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.Galaxy Digital’s first over-the-counter (OTC) option trade, executed earlier this week, marks a tangible step toward bringing the conventional financial system onto decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure.FTX’s blowup and the collapse of several crypto lenders…

Ether, solana rallied to new 2023 highs as bitcoin dipped to $43,000.Bitcoin traders fear "bull trap," growing fear could propel BTC towards $50,000, Santiment said.Bitcoin's (BTC) rally halted Thursday, ceding the stage to cryptocurrency majors ether (ETH) and solana (SOL) which led the crypto rally after surging to fresh 19-month high.BTC dipped to $43,000 during

Crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) is set to benefit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, investment firm Wedbush said in a report on Thursday.Wedbush maintained its outperform rating on Coinbase, and raised its price target on the stock to $180 from $110. Coinbase shares were trading 3% lower

Aug 31, 2020 at 19:10 UTCThe SSU detains the alleged contract killing buyer. (Screenshot/YouTube)Bitsonar Whistleblower Says Law Enforcement Faked His Murder in Attempt to Protect HimThe whistleblower from defunct cryptocurrency firm Bitsonar has reappeared after going missing for three days in Kyiv, Ukraine, saying law enforcement faked his kidnapping – and murder – to foil…

news The European arm of Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer has launched a bitcoin buying and selling service aimed to be easier to use than spot trading exchanges. BitFlyer Europe announced the news on Tuesday, saying the new trading platform targets people wanting “a simple way to buy and sell bitcoin, from total beginners to experienced…

May 4, 2020 at 15:00 UTCUpdated May 4, 2020 at 15:23 UTCNEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin speaks at Developer Week 2020. (Credit: NEAR)NEAR, a blockchain project for running decentralized applications (dapps), announced Monday the closing of a $21.6 million token sale led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). It also revealed the stealth-mode launch of…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Jamie Crawley is a CoinDesk news reporter based in London.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Blocknox, a part of Boerse Stuttgart's digital unit, has received the final license as a crypto…