Artist Ai Weiwei Uses Ethereum to Make Art About ‘Value’

The crypto community is an incredible one – composed of some of the most genius, disruptive, category-creating technologists, innovators, and evangelists in the world. I feel honored to work alongside some of these gifted founders and investors as they work (as we say at CoinFund) to build the new internet. But despite how promising our

Crypto winter continues to be dogged by regulatory attacks and court drama. Most notably, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission placed a trio of decentralized crypto platforms into its crosshairs last week. An aggressive set of charges from the CFTC – which zeroed in on how the trading platforms handle certain kinds of third-party token

news Ethereum’s next system-wide upgrade, Istanbul, is scheduled to arrive on mainnet the week of Dec. 4. The decision was made during an ethereum core developer call on Oct. 25. Later on Friday, Danno Ferrin, blockchain protocol engineer at ethereum venture studio ConsenSys, proposed activating Istanbul at block number 9,056,000 in accordance with the targeted…

opinion Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and CoinDesk’s Director of Research. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a free weekly newsletter focused on crypto assets. Sign up here. Everything flourishes with a bit of attention – even attention itself. You may…

opinion Timothy Enneking is the founder and the primary principal of Digital Capital Management, LLC (DCM). The crypto space ain’t what it used to be. In the good old days when bitcoin was the only “cryptocurrency” around, life was much simpler. Then, a few other “currencies” came along, followed by ICOs and things rapidly got…

OTC liquidity network Paradigm introduces block trading for linear altcoin options on the centralized crypto exchange Deribit.The inaugral trade between QCP Capital and Galaxy Digital involved MATIC call options expiring on May 31.Crypto over-the-counter liquidity network Paradigm announced on Monday a block trading facility on leading derivatives exchange Deribit for options tied to prominent alternative

PaperImperium, or Paper, or Chris (his real name, but he’s not keen to publicize his full name), is advocating for a clear regulation for DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organisations.DAOs are a brainchild of the crypto-anarchist culture, and the concept implies that communities can make decisions and solve problems by common voting, using their crypto tokens…

New European Union rules that let tax authorities share data on individuals' crypto holdings were formally adopted by the bloc's finance ministers on Tuesday. The document will now be published in the EU's Official Journal and enter into force 20 days later.The rules were proposed last year in a bid to block assets from being

Clients residing outside the U.S. will be unaffected.Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse(Zack Seward/CoinDesk archives)Jan 15, 2021 at 10:45 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 15, 2021 at 10:50 p.m. UTCKraken to Halt XRP Trading for U.S. ResidentsCiting the recent SEC lawsuit against Ripple Labs, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced it’s halting trading of the XRP token for U.S. residents.The halt,…