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This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest Prices(CoinDesk)Top StoriesBitcoin stabilized around the $58,000 mark after the U.S. Federal Reserve kept the benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday. Chair Powell said the economy is too

Apr 21, 2020 at 21:32 UTCCrude’s turmoil continues to shake global markets. Prices on West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil futures for expiring June sank 43 percent to $12 per barrel on Tuesday. This comes one day after May WTI contract prices plunged into negative territory - as low as -$40 per barrel at one point -…

Dec 14, 2020 at 6:43 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 14, 2020 at 7:01 p.m. UTCBloccelerate VC Raises $12M Fund to Bet on Enterprise Blockchain AdoptionSeattle-based venture capital firm Bloccelerate closed a $12 million fund on Nov. 30 to bet on both enterprise blockchain adoption and Ethereum-based financial applications.The firm’s general partners, Kate Mitselmakher and Sam Yilmaz,…

Taiwan's financial watchdog on Tuesday published guiding principles for crypto issuers and firms as it looks to strengthen industry oversight.The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), which was in March confirmed to be supervising the sector, said its guiding principles are meant to strengthen customer protection by ensuring transparency, sound asset custody methods, and reinforcing firms' internal

A federal judge encouraged Coinbase to drop – or at least substantially modify – its efforts to subpoena U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler’s personal communications during a hearing Thursday. Judge Katherine Polk Failla, of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, scheduled a hearing on short notice Thursday

news LINE, provider of Japan’s most popular messaging app, has just been approved for a cryptocurrency business license in the country. The news, reported by CoinDesk Japan on Friday, means it will be able to offer its crypto exchange services in Japan where it has 80 million monthly active users. The new platform is to be…

A relatively illiquid market and likely overleveraged trading positions pushed Tellor’s TRB token prices up over 250% in 24 hours on Saturday, only for the cryptocurrency to tumble and fall 70% since a lifetime peak set on Sunday.Tellor is a so-called oracle protocol that uses blockchain-based tools to fetch and share data among different networks.

SUI, the native token of the blockchain that was built by former Meta (META) employees, has tumbled as much as 9% after the director of the South Korean Financial Supervisory Service reported to have said that he will check if the Sui team is manipulating the supply of the token.BlockMedia reported that the regulator's director

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