Bitcoin’s Price Rally Driven by Americans’ Safe Haven Bid: Matrixport

Ethereum Name Service (ENS), a domain name protocol that runs atop of Ethereum, reached an agreement with GoDaddy to allow users to link internet domains to their ENS addresses for free.Web3 adoption by mainstream companies slowed down during the bear market, but the deal between ENS and GoDaddy, the largest internet domain registry, might signal

There are more ongoing cross-border CBDC trials with cute names than one can possibly keep track of (such as Cedar, Icebreaker, Jasper, Mariana and many more). But one stands out: the mBridge project.Why? For the following reasons:- It involves 23 central banks, including the BIS (the official organization for central banks)- It is designed to

news The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned a Moscow-based bank over its role in financing Venezuela’s controversial petro cryptocurrency. The Treasury announced Monday that its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated Evrofinance Mosnarbank – which is jointly owned by Russian and Venezuelan state-owned firms – to the Specially Designated Nationals List, as…

news U.S. regulators filed charges against XBT Corp. Thursday, alleging the company failed to register as a futures commission merchant (FCM). In simultaneous press releases, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged that XBT, otherwise known as First Global Credit, sold security-based swaps for bitcoin without registering on…

Feb 18, 2020 at 16:01 UTCUpdated Feb 18, 2020 at 16:33 UTCIllustration by Cheryl ThuesdayCrypto Firms Should Get Behind Peirce’s Safe Harbor Proposal, Even if It’s Unlikely to Become LawCarol Van Cleef is Chair of the Blockchain and Digital Assets Team at the law firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings. Addison Yang is CEO of Luminous…

Feb 14, 2020 at 21:59 UTCUpdated Feb 14, 2020 at 22:20 UTCCFTC logo (Image via Mark Van Scyoc / Shutterstock)The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is suing an alleged Ponzi scammer on claims he and his company raised half a million dollars for cryptocurrency investments, which instead went to personal uses.According to a press…

BitGo, one of the largest custody specialists in the digital asset industry, celebrated its 10-year anniversary this year. It is an incumbent, it is an institution and it is led by CEO Mike Belshe.The company was one of a few to raise capital in a depressed market this year, and even more significantly, it raised

(Photo by MPI/Getty Images)From the U.S. presidential elections of 1896 to the dot-com bubble to housing markets in 2006, these historical moments help us make sense of a truly WTF year. For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, iHeartRadio or RSS.…

Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov, as well as two other employees, should give testimony in the SEC vs. Telegram case, a judge has ordered. According to a document signed by District Judge P. Kevin Castel at the New York Southern District Court on Monday, Durov’s deposition should take place on Jan. 7 or 8,…