BlockFi Boosted Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Holdings by 11.9M Shares, Now Holds $1.7B GBTC

Urbit, an idiosyncratic and audacious project to rebuild the entire internet computing stack from scratch, brought back controversial founder Curtis Yarvin after a five-year hiatus. He holds no formal title but is taking the lead on strategy. The board of the Urbit Foundation, the nonprofit that steers core development, fired executive director Josh Lehman. Christopher

Jun 20, 2020 at 02:17 UTCUpdated Jun 20, 2020 at 03:45 UTCSEC Chairman Jay Clayton (CoinDesk archives)U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton may be the next U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. According to a Department of Justice press release published late Friday, Clayton has been nominated by U.S.…

The investment in the XRP product was canceled due to crypto investment rules in Ireland.The asset manager had to quickly scrap the investment at a loss of $834.Jupiter Asset Management (JUN), the London-listed firm with assets under management of over $65.8 billion, had to scrap an investment in one of the crypto exchange-traded products (ETP)

A move past a key resistance at $6,675 would confirm a short-term bearish-to-bullish trend change in bitcoin.

NEW YORK -- Alameda Research had “special privileges” at FTX that allowed the crypto hedge fund to spend $8 billion of exchange customers’ money, Gary Wang, a former top lieutenant in Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire, testified at trial Friday.Taking the stand in an ill-fitting black suit, Wang, who co-founded both companies with Bankman-Fried, said that in

TaxBit has begun pitching corporate America on specialized crypto tax prep software in a sign of the growing business behind bitcoin and other digital assets.The “Corporate Accounting Suite” already has its first customer, Aaron Jacob, a strategy executive at TaxBit told CoinDesk: BlockFi, the crypto lender and bitcoin exchange. He said banks, exchanges and investment…

One of crypto’s hottest narratives – the tokenization of real-world assets – has sparked a nearly 40% jump in the price of Chainlink’s (LINK) over the past 30 days, with some crypto wallets apparently picking up over $50 million worth of the tokens.On-chain analysis tool Lookonchain said one large investor, colloquially known as a "whale,"

Jenny JohnsonPresident and CEOFranklin TempletonJenny will discuss developing crypto-linked investment products in a bear market, the mood among her clients and her lon...Jenny JohnsonPresident and CEOFranklin TempletonJenny will discuss developing crypto-linked investment products in a bear market, the mood among her clients and her lon...Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe.…

Jan 28, 2020 at 21:00 UTCA former senior official with the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) believes the nation should join a global conversation about regulating stablecoins, with a particular focus on the Libra stablecoin.Min Zhu, former deputy governor at the PBoC, said China should join other nations in regulating the Facebook-led Libra stablecoin, according…