Binance Launches Smart Contract-Enabled Blockchain, Adds Staking for Its Coin

Jul 13, 2020 at 13:54 UTCBitcoin mining machines (Mark Agnor/Shutterstock)Billion-dollar fund manager Fidelity International has doubled its equity investment in bitcoin mining company Hut 8, bringing its total stake to over 10%. In a filing with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) last week, the fund manager disclosed it had acquired 4.1 million "units" in Hut…

Jan 6, 2021 at 12:59 a.m. UTCUpdated Jan 6, 2021 at 1:04 a.m. UTCBitGo Launches Wrapped Bitcoin, Ether on Tron BlockchainBitGo’s Ethereum-based tokenized bitcoin project, Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), has expanded to its second blockchain, Tron. The crypto custodian has also launched Wrapped Ether (WETH) on Tron as well. BitGo clients are already minting WBTC and…

NEWS Sep 12, 2018 at 18:05 UTC The Republic of India may be taking a deeper look at how it can use blockchain technology. India's Union Cabinet – an executive decision-making body composed of senior government officials and led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi – said it would allow the nation's Export-Import Bank (Exim Bank) to…

Hong Kong’s markets regulator warned the public about the crypto exchange ByBit and several of the products it offers to investors.The SFC said investors risk losing their entire investment and that it will not hesitate to take enforcement action.Hong Kong's markets regulator added Bybit to its list of suspicious cryptocurrency exchanges on Thursday, and placed

IOTA Network’s ShimmerEVM is adding LayerZero’s cross-chain messaging technology to allow users to interact and transact across several networks, developers told CoinDesk in an emailed statement.Initial connection to other blockchains through the Shimmer bridge, a tool that transfers value between different blockchains including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Avalanche, Fantom, Base, Arbitrum and Optimism, takes

news The Takeaway: Colorado’s Office of Economic Development & International Trade has begun the process of creating special-purpose banking legislation to cater to crypto companies. The aim is to get a bill in front of Colorado lawmakers by December. Additionally, Colorado is exploring the option of extending crypto-specific banking laws (similar to those passed in…

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.Brandy covers crypto-related venture capital deals 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 metaverse…

Christopher Giancarlo is the former chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and founding principal of the Digital Dollar Foundation, a group that supports the U.S. adopting a digital currency.Giancarlo has written a book and he came on our “Money Reimagined” podcast recently to talk about it. The book is called “Crypto Dad,” which…

May 7, 2020 at 23:40 UTCUpdated May 7, 2020 at 23:47 UTCBitcoin broke $10,000 for the first time in three months just days before its next halving. (Credit: CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index)Bitcoin (BTC) rallied Thursday on high volumes, trading above $10,000 for the first time since Feb. 24 late in the day.The bellwether cryptocurrency surged…