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Aug 20, 2020 at 20:28 UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Breaks $11.8K; BTC in DeFi Doubles in AugustBitcoin’s price is trending up while August has been a hot month for the cryptocurrency in decentralized finance. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $11,857 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 1.3% over the previous 24…

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,…

news Binance is now accepting fiat through Alipay and WeChat, opening up the exchange to peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto transactions from China. The move follows a September announcement concerning the exchange’s intention to add over-the-counter (OTC) trade options for an additional fiat on-ramp. Although an expected development, the move was first disclosed on Twitter and later confirmed…

Dec 8, 2020 at 1:02 p.m. UTCCrypto Demand Surges on Indiegogo Founder’s Alternative Investments PlatformVincent, a sort of search engine for alternative investing, is fielding a massive demand for crypto as the platform launches out of beta with $2 million in funding.“Between October and November alone, investors looking for digital assets have grown 80%,” said…

Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Prices: BitBull Capital's Joe DiPasquale says that a rate hike pause has helped the market, but rate cuts are what's needed to stop it from struggling in the future.Insights: Indonesia updates its list of digital assets approved for trading in the country. Is its motivation to increase tax revenues?Is a Rate…

Apr 30, 2020 at 04:37 UTCUpdated Apr 30, 2020 at 05:32 UTCTelegram CEO Pavel Durov. (Credit: TechCrunch / Wikimedia Commons)Telegram Caves to US Regulators: Delays Blockchain Launch, Offers to Return $1.2B to InvestorsMessaging app Telegram postponed the launch of its TON blockchain for a second time on Wednesday, pushing the new go-live date to April…

news Ripple co-founder and executive chairman Chris Larsen, his wife Lyna Lam and nonprofit foundation Rippleworks have donated $25 million in XRP cryptocurrency to San Francisco State University. The university announced the news on Friday, saying that the donation is the “largest gift ever made in a digital asset” to a university in the U.S. The funding…

KOREA BLOCKCHAIN WEEK, SEOUL – At the height of the bull market in late 2021, Maple Finance, a crypto lending protocol, thought it had the hottest product on the market: a way for token-skeptical institutions to capture yield from Alameda Research’s trading activities.Alameda, at the time, was the center of attention in the burgeoning decentralized

news Germany’s government has passed a new strategy outlining the ways the leading EU state is planning to use blockchains. Approved by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet on Wednesday, the strategy sets the government’s priorities in the blockchain space, such as the digital identity, securities and corporate finance. It also sets out that the state won’t…