Bitcoin Erases 75% of October Price Rally as S&P 500 Hits Record Highs

Vlad Tenev will likely appear before a U.S. virtual hearing as lawmakers investigate the firm's recent trading restrictions, a Politico report says.U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.(Lunamarina/Shutterstock)Feb 2, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. UTCRobinhood CEO May Testify Before US House Committee Over GameStop AllegationsRobinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is expected to testify before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee…

Sep 3, 2020 at 08:47 UTCUpdated Sep 3, 2020 at 08:49 UTC(A. Aleksandravicius/Shutterstock)Revolut has opened up its cryptocurrency services to Australian residents for the first time. According to a press statement received by CoinDesk on Thursday, Australian customers of the digital banking firm can now buy and sell up to six different digital assets and…

news SWIFT, the global banking payments network, intends to integrate technology from R3, the DLT provider behind the Corda platform. Speaking on stage at the Paris Fintech Forum, SWIFT CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt said: “Later today we are announcing integration with R3.” At the event, Leibbrandt was onstage with Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, which has…

Despite myriad benefits to proactively address the consequences of climate change, society remains focused on expensive remediation as opposed to adaptation and prevention. This is in part due to the absence of accurate and transparent data to inform mitigation strategies. Existing monitoring systems suffer from significant limitations including inconsistent data collection, manipulation, fraud, and delayed

Worldcoin, the crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, announced a major expansion to its eye-scanning identity platform on Wednesday, including integrations with major tech firms and a new multi-level verification system for the World ID "digital passport."Tiago Sada, the head of product at Tools for Humanity, the company behind Worldcoin, said in an

Mar 31, 2020 at 18:00 UTCUpdated Mar 31, 2020 at 18:22 UTCAnother blockchain project is heading to the Polkadot Network.Launched in 2017, Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform Nodle announced it is switching from the Stellar blockchain to Parity Technologies’ Substrate network, according to a blog post shared in advance with CoinDesk. Substrate lets teams customize their own…

Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He doesn’t own any crypto.Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash,…

BEUC, an umbrella group of European consumer organizations, filed a complaint with European Union consumer protection bodies calling for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter to toughen their crypto advertising rules.National regulators should require social media networks to tighten their policies and ban influencers from promoting crypto, the complaint said.“Consumers are increasingly being promised ‘get rich…

U.S. investors are very much keen on investing in exchange-traded funds (ETF) that hold cryptocurrencies, a new survey commissioned by financial services giant Charles Schwab showed on Thursday. Some 45% of respondents said they plan to invest in crypto via ETFs over the next year, up from 38% a year earlier, surpassing demand for bonds