Capital One Seeks Blockchain Patent for ‘Collaborative’ Authentication Tool

news Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is soon to launch its first fiat-to-cryptocurrency trading pairs. Speaking at the Open Innovations 2019 conference in Moscow on Monday, CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao confirmed that fiat options are on the way, kicking off with the Russian ruble: “We’re adding support for fiat trading. In about two weeks or so, we should have support for…

Apr 16, 2020 at 20:08 UTCUpdated Apr 16, 2020 at 21:27 UTCCompcoin brought in $1.6 million, the CFTC claimed, and even managed to get listed – temporarily – on digital asset exchanges during its sale from 2016 through 2018. (CFTC Chair Heath Tarbert image via CoinDesk archives)The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged a…

Jan 22, 2020 at 21:29 UTCTed Livingston, Kin Ambassadors event, April 2018, NYC. Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk.Kik technical advisor Tanner Philp must be deposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to the company's 2017 kin token sale, elongating the discovery process in the messaging app’s battle with federal regulators.The agreement was…

BitGo says it is launching a stablecoin in January 2025 Called USDS this stablecoin will provide rewards to the institutions which power its liquidity. SINGAPORE — BitGo plans to introduce a dollar-backed stablecoin next year, differentiating itself in a crowded market by offering rewards to institutions that provide liquidity to the network, the crypto custody

Jul 14, 2020 at 08:00 UTC2020: The Year Ethereum Stayed HomeThis is a weird year for everyone and everything, but it’s a particularly weird year for Ethereum.  Why? The second-largest blockchain by market cap and the largest by contributing developers has always been known for having lots of events. COVID-19 has put the kibosh on…

Jan 22, 2020 at 20:00 UTCLibra has lost another Association member, but according to @nlw that’s likely low on its worries list, plus Square’s LN efforts & TON’s SEC support.News broke yesterday the Libra Association had seen its eighth high-profile defection, this time from the telecom giant Vodafone. In today’s episode of The Breakdown, @nlw…

news Wianxiang, prominent Chinese car manufacturer, has partnered with PlatON, a blockchain privacy startup, to develop the underlying infrastructure for China’s largest smart city project, slated for completion by 2025. His eponymous Wanxiang Innova City, in progress since 2015, will convert 8.3 square kilometers premium riverfront real-estate in Hangzhou into an “expansive digital and ecological…

Last month, Ethereum incubator ConsenSys sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an injunction asking a federal court to block the regulator from investigating its MetaMask offering or from declaring Ether (ETH) a security. It's the latest company to follow a growing trend of preemptive litigation against the SEC.You’re reading State of Crypto

news Bitcoin just passed an interesting milestone today, one we haven’t seen since November 27, 2017. According to CoinMetrics.io, there are now over a million daily active addresses, a number that is defined as the number of unique “from” or “to” addresses used per day. Image via CoinMetrics Kevin Rooke noticed the move and Tweeted:…