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Bitfarms rejected Riot Platforms' unsolicited $2.30 per share takeover bid as undervaluing the crypto miner.The company said it hired investment bank Moelis to serve as a financial adviser in dealing with additional expressions of interest it has received.02:13Key Events You Shouldn't Miss at Consensus 202411:19What to Expect From Consensus 202413:29Will Solana and Altcoins Dominate the

opinion Asheesh Birla is senior vice president of product at Ripple. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  Industries across the board – from cable companies to grocery stores – are desperately trying to hold on to their most prized possession: the bundle. The conventional wisdom goes “if you control access and…

Mastercard has won a patent for a proposed system that, if created, would allow for the launch of different kinds of blockchains – including those that support multiple currencies. Published Tuesday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the patent explains that a group or company may need to store different types of transaction information…

Dec 5, 2019 at 18:00 UTCUpdated Dec 6, 2019 at 21:27 UTCEthereum’s Top DEX Is Rebooting With New Scaling FeaturesIDEX, the top decentralized exchange (DEX) for ERC-20 tokens in 2019, according to etherscan, is in the process of launching a new DEX on top of Rollup technology, a Layer 2 scalability protocol highlighted in ethereum’s…

Tokenization, where real-world assets are converted into blockchain-based tokens, has the potential to enhance efficiency, liquidity and transparency in bond markets, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said in a Thursday report.The comment follows a successful $100 million tokenized green bond issuance in February by the central bank in collaboration with the local government."The issuance…

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest sold around $12.85 million worth of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) shares from its Next Generation Internet (ARKW) exchange-traded fund (ETF) on Monday, the biggest sale in more than a year.The offload of 395,945 GBTC shares from ARKW leaves the fund with about $112.7 million worth of GBTC, a weighting of 6.95%.

Jan 8, 2020 at 16:17 UTCUpdated Jan 8, 2020 at 16:18 UTCImage via CoinDesk archivesIncreasing global uncertainties and a weak dollar will likely push more investors into bitcoin as it becomes recognized as a store of value. The cryptocurrency's fixed supply will further drive price increases throughout the year, Bloomberg analysts predict. Bloomberg's 2020 crypto…

Luthra, who has almost 100,000 followers on Twitter, is suing Bitget, an exchange, for freezing his holdings in REELT, a token he was promoting.Bitget says Luthra may have been selling tokens on the exchange, even as he was selling them as the listing opened.Like many small-cap tokens promoted by influencers like Luthra, REELT, created by…

The dollar-valued locked-in open futures and perpetual futures contracts have topped the $21 billion mark for the first time since November 2021.Still, the overall leverage in the market remains low, indicating low odds of sudden liquidations-induced price volatility.The notional open interest, or the dollar value locked in the number of open or active bitcoin (BTC)