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Jun 25, 2020 at 20:38 UTCUpdated Jun 25, 2020 at 21:00 UTCSource: CoinDesk Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Tests $9K as Market Struggles With UncertaintyHigher-than-normal selling volume pushed bitcoin down in early trading Thursday before managing to recover.  Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,297 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), slipping just 0.18% over…

Jul 8, 2020 at 23:41 UTCUpdated Jul 8, 2020 at 23:50 UTCCircle CEO Jeremy Allaire is one of the members of CENTRE's board of managers, which votes to approve requests to blacklist USDC addresses. (Circle)Circle Confirms Freezing $100K in USDC at Law Enforcement’s RequestThe CENTRE Consortium blacklisted a USDC address in response to a law…

Apr 6, 2020 at 10:47 UTCUpdated Apr 6, 2020 at 10:57 UTCNew York Southern District Court. (Credit: Shutterstock/elbud)A flood of class-action lawsuits were filed in New York Friday, taking aim at a number of major cryptocurrency projects.First reported by Offshore Alert, at least 10 complaints were filed in the Southern District of New York on…

Crypto investors started the week jittery about an imminent market crash due to FTX shedding its $3.4 billion cryptocurrency holdings, but analysts say those concerns are likely overblown.“The actual selling pressure could be much smaller than initially anticipated,” said David Lawant, head of research at FalconX.Digital asset markets declined sharply Monday as traders feared that

Web3 infrastructure firm Crossmint is rolling out a non-fungible token (NFT) wallet-as-a-service (WaaS) to help companies implement simplified, interoperable blockchain technologies into their existing goods and services.The NFT WaaS tech stack allows firms to create smart contracts and send NFTs via email, as well as create wallets for users on the backend for seamless custodial…

news Bitcoin’s price peaked above $9,000 for the first time in over a year earlier today, but the rally was short lived as its price returned below $8,600 just minutes later. At 16:00 UTC, the world’s largest cryptocurrency jumped 4.6 percent from today’s UTC opening price of $8,681 and climbed as high as $9,084 –…

news New York-based Signature Bank is launching a digital payments platform built on a blockchain architecture to streamline real-time payments. Announced Tuesday, the Signet platform will allow the bank’s customers to conduct payments at any time of the day, beginning Jan. 1, 2019. Signature Bank claims that all transactions made will be secure, require no…

news The first two real-world transactions have been conducted on Marco Polo, the trade finance blockchain built on R3’s Corda platform. Announced Thursday, the trades took place between two German companies: Voith, a manufacturer of machines such as turbines, generators and transmissions, and KSB SE, a supplier of pumps and valves.  One transaction involved the…

Coinbase Ventures also joined the round.Casa CTO Jameson Lopp speaks at Consensus 2019.(CoinDesk archives)Feb 3, 2021 at 2:40 p.m. UTCBitcoin Startup Casa Raises $4M Led by Fidelity-Linked Avon VenturesBitcoin self-storage startup Casa has raised $4 million in a seed round led by Fidelity Investments’ blockchain-focused Avon Ventures. The investment comes with a board seat for Avon…