Bakkt’s Bitcoin Futures Launch in Singapore in Just Two Weeks

Paul Brody is EY's global innovation leader for blockchain. The views expressed are his own. At the beginning of this year, I wrote a column predicting that companies would find the allure of public blockchains irresistible. While a world of private blockchains provides many enterprises, regulators and central banks with the comfort that there are…

Dec 9, 2019 at 16:54 UTCUpdated Dec 9, 2019 at 17:30 UTCMARKETS DAILY: 2020 Could See First Central Bank Digital CurrenciesWith today's markets mostly down, we're talking bitcoin's first golden cross in more than three years, "Central Bank Digital Currencies" and a behind-the-scenes look at internal Telegram communications exposed by the SEC.Tune in as CoinDesk…

Binance.US (BAM) in a redacted response to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has called the commission’s motion for depositions by the exchange’s executives and further discovery “unduly burdensome” and “freewheeling” as it has yet to be presented with evidence that customer funds were wrongfully diverted.“Even after all of the discovery already produced by BAM

As stablecoins gain traction, Netherlands-based fintech firm Quantoz aims to take a slice of the European market. The company will issue the regulatory-compliant stablecoins pegged to the euro (EURQ) and U.S. dollar (USDQ) on the Ethereum blockchain. The tokens are fully backed by fiat reserves and highly-liquid financial instruments like government bonds, the firm said

Sep 29, 2020 at 16:06 UTCBitcoin may once again take center stage after the crypto market's focus on ether.(Fabio Bruna/Pathé Tuschinski/Wiki commons)With the U.S. elections just five weeks away, the crypto market’s focus looks to be shifting back to bitcoin and away from ether and the Ethereum ecosystem.The spread between the six-month implied volatility (IV)…

Tokens of ether (ETH) liquid staking platforms as well as Coinbase shares surged Thursday on hope asset management giant BlackRock (BLK) may soon file to offer a spot ether exchange-traded fund (ETF).The iShares Ethereum Trust was registered by BlackRock Advisors as a corporate entity in Delaware. News of the filing Thursday morning sent ether soaring

Feb 19, 2020 at 16:00 UTCUpdated Feb 19, 2020 at 16:21 UTC“Full disclosure needs to be there in order to make sure that these investors know what they’re getting into” said Jai Waterman, Blockstation's CTO (Image via Shutterstock)Blockstation, a Canadian digital asset trading systems firm, has built a fast-track disclosure filing process for companies hoping…

opinion Pindar Wong is the chairman of VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd and a member of CoinDesk’s advisory board. An internet pioneer, he co­founded the first licensed Internet Service Provider in Hong Kong in 1993.  There is a crisis in governance. I’m not talking about bitcoin, but Brexit. Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) is not so…

Bitcoin has made a new all-time high, continuing its strong performance after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. Ether outperformed by rising 8% in the last 24 hours ahead of Federal Reserve policymakers' meeting. 00:52 Ether ETFs Saw Biggest Outflows Since July 01:01 Bitcoin Breaks $64K While Gold Soars 00:56 ETH/BTC Ratio Slid to