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markets Ether, the native cryptocurrency of ethereum, has logged its longest daily winning run in nearly four months. The world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market value closed (UTC) with 1.47 percent gains on Wednesday, having risen by 3.9, 1, 3.5, and 6.2 percent on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, respectively, according to CoinMarketCap data. The five-day winning…

Apr 15, 2020 at 16:30 UTCUpdated Apr 15, 2020 at 20:35 UTCJames Cooper is a professor of law at California Western School of Law in San Diego. For more than two decades, he has advised governments, international institutions, not for profit organizations, and corporations on the regulation of disruptive technologies and legal sector innovations.On March…

Aug 28, 2020 at 11:00 UTCUpdated Aug 28, 2020 at 11:06 UTC(ev/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)Shiv Malik is the author of two books, the co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation think tank and a former investigative journalist for the Guardian. He currently evangelizes about a new decentralized data economy for the open source project Streamr.  Who controls…

EigenLayer's EIGEN token is trading around $9 in side markets like Aevo where traders can bet on the eventual price. EIGEN airdrop, which the team refers to as a "stakedrop," has been controversial due to the team's decision to make the tokens non-transferable, at least initially, as well as to "geoblock" users in many countries

markets View Bitcoin is on the defensive, having closed below $8,000 last week. The price has also established a bearish lower high at $8,135. A short-term bullish-to-bearish trend change, however, would be confirmed if the price drops below $7,432 (June 4 low), establishing a lower low. With the weekly chart reporting a bearish candlestick pattern,…

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…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Brandy covers crypto-related venture capital deals for CoinDesk. Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Crypto infrastructure startup Conduit has emerged from stealth with a $7 million seed funding round led by…

Deus X Capital, a family office backed investment firm, launched today with Tim Grant as CEO, the company said in a statement.The company begins with $1 billion of assets, including existing investments and capital to be deployed in private equity, venture capital and fund allocation opportunities in the digital asset, blockchain, fintech and institutional capital

Dec 19, 2019 at 09:00 UTCInternet startup Blockchain of Things Inc. (BCOT) agreed to pay $250,000 to settle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for launching an initial coin offering without registering with the regulator. The federal securities regulator has long held that ICOs are a form of security and thus must be registered.In an…