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Featured SpeakerYat SiuCo-Founder and Executive ChairmanAnimoca BrandsWhere is Web3 headed? Take a look to the future with this pioneering investor in the metaverse and NFTs.George Kaloudis is a research analyst and columnist for CoinDesk.Featured SpeakerYat SiuCo-Founder and Executive ChairmanAnimoca BrandsWhere is Web3 headed? Take a look to the future with this pioneering investor in the…

Alex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Alex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Jocelyn Yang is a markets reporter at CoinDesk. She is a recent graduate of Emerson College's journalism program. Alex…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Following its decline below $29,000 for the first time in a month on Monday, bitcoin (BTC) was trading at $29,100 early Tuesday. The bearish price action comes ahead…

NEW YORK – A Manhattan jury has found crypto trader Avi Eisenberg guilty of fraud and market manipulation for his $110 million heist from decentralized finance protocol Mango Markets in October 2022.Eisenberg was arrested in Puerto Rico in December 2022 and charged with commodities fraud, commodities manipulation, and wire fraud for the scheme. He will

Crypto exchange WOO Network closed a $30 million Series A round of funding from various investors, including Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk.The round was oversubscribed by 200%, the press release said.WOO Network describes itself as a “deep liquidity network” and aims to provide “best-in-class liquidity” and connect traders,…

Ethereum developers failed to get their new test network, Holesky, started on Friday, marring a technological milestone that was supposed to serve as a celebration of the first anniversary of last year’s historic “Merge” upgrade.While some validators were able to manually start the test network, there was a misconfiguration in one of the genesis files

news A year after the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) published initial regulations for funds investing in crypto, only one firm has successfully passed that gauntlet. Hong Kong-based Diginex remains the sole crypto fund to pass the regulatory hurdles issued in Nov. 2018 and formalized this October, according to research from Reuters. As…

This week, as I travel around El Salvador, I met with two people who are actively working to help increase the speed of Bitcoin adoption and to help foreign investors start Bitcoin-related businesses.The current market price of Bitcoin, approximately $29,500, puts the prospect of owning a full bitcoin outside of the reach of most people.…

Jun 23, 2020 at 12:00 UTCIdentity Startup Notabene Launches Exchange Tool for FATF Travel Rule ComplianceA Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting this week is proving to be a popular time for industry players to launch compliance-minded tech solutions. One such startup, Notabene, announced Tuesday a “trust framework” for crypto exchanges, or, in FATF parlance,…