Circle Seeks to Register in France, Ramping Up European Play

What is the metaverse? The word conjures up the idea of a single space in which users can log onto and experience its robust virtual worlds. In practice, so far at least, it is multiple spaces, centralized or decentralized, where users can access multiple different metaverse experiences, each siloed away from the other without interoperability.The…

opinion Kyle Samani is a Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, a thesis-driven cryptofund that invests in tokens reshaping entire sectors of the global economy. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  Over the last 20 years, a lot of companies have built large online marketplaces to connect buyers and sellers. Amazon,…

Mantle's market value rose to over $4 billion.The layer 2 blockchain said users can lock their MNT into a vault and accumulate rewards.Mantle, the layer 2 scalability solution built atop Ethereum, witnessed its native token surge to a fresh all-time high on Wednesday, pushing its market value to over $4 billion, outperforming the rest of

Salim Ramji, set to take the reins at Vanguard from outgoing CEO Tim Buckley on July 8, quickly poured cold water on the idea that he has intentions for the asset management giant to offer its own spot bitcoin ETF."I think it’s important for firms to have consistency in terms of what they stand for

Crypto exchange EDX Markets, which is backed by Wall Street giants including Citadel Securities and Charles Schwab, tapped Anchorage Digital to provide custody for its clearinghouse business set to launch later this year, the company said Tuesday.The clearinghouse will help settle trades matched on EDX. Anchorage is the only federally chartered crypto bank in the…

Craig Wright's former legal representatives at Ontier say emails purportedly showing their correspondence have been doctored as the fourth week of a U.K. trial probing his claims of having invented bitcoin started Monday.The emails were shared by Wright's wife Ramona Watts with his U.K. counsel, who then disclosed it to the court.Before the emails were

Blockchain technology has momentum. Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs have catalyzed mainstream entry into the crypto investment space. Meanwhile, DeFi and other decentralized projects continue to grow their users and assets. Regulators in many jurisdictions appear to be looking for ways to work with the technology, rather than against it. This all boils down to an

"Genesis Cat," a digital art image minted atop the Bitcoin blockchain's Ordinals protocol by the Taproot Wizards team, has sold for $254,000 in a Sotheby's auction.The image was a special edition 1-of-1 piece by the Taproot Wizards artist Francisco "FAR" Alarcon, featured as part of a broader sale of Ordinals inscriptions by Sotheby's. The auction

Feb 11, 2020 at 10:35 UTCAfter dropping zcash in its U.K. operation last year, Coinbase has now added the privacy enhancing cryptocurrency in New York state.The San Francisco-based crypto exchange announced the news in a tweet on Monday, saying that the state's residents can now buy, sell and exchange zcash (ZTC) on Coinbase.com, as well…