Coinbase Adds Ability to Direct Message Any Ethereum Address

Sandali Handagama is a CoinDesk reporter with a focus on crypto regulation and policy. She does not own any crypto.Blockchain company Ripple's legal battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to cost the firm around $200 million, Cointelegraph reported Monday citing, the Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.Garlinghouse reportedly told onlookers at the…

The price of bitcoin (BTC) quickly popped higher during early morning U.S. trading hours on Tuesday, rising to levels not seen since late July. At press time, the world's largest crypto was trading at $67,500, ahead 3.7% over the past 24 hours and just off its session high above $67,800. The broader CoinDesk 20 Index

Bitcoin (BTC) was recently trading at $29,165, down 0.7%, over the past 24 hours. The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization hovered above $29,300 for most of the weekend but dipped as low as about $23,100 in the hours after stablecoin exchange Curve Finance tweeted that it had suffered an exploit. The breach put more than…

There's software ready to help ethereum scale – right now. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, the raw architecture of Turbo Geth has been completed — and is currently available to early adopters for testing. Alexey Akhunov, the independent software developer that built the software, told CoinDesk that unlike many other scaling solutions, Turbo Geth looks at tackling…

River has introduced a new product that provides users with interest on cash deposits, which can be paid in USD or BTC. The "Bitcoin Interest on Cash" feature pays a variable rate of interest, which currently stands at 3.8% as of Oct. 22. River's aim is to give bitcoin users the best of both worlds

The European Commission issued an 800,000 euro ($842,000) contract on Tuesday as it seeks to mitigate what it calls “significant harm” of crypto on the environment.The study, for which bids close on Nov. 10, will develop standards that feed into potential future EU policies to curb the impact of crypto on climate change, and to

Sun.io, the DeFi platform associated with Tron founder Justin Sun, has released a token generator dubbed SunPump. The new platform will rival Solana's pump.fun token generator. $10 million has been set aside to provide resources to newly issued tokens and a review process put in place to avoid rug pulls. 06:07 Crypto Hopefuls Seek Value

BitGo, one of the largest custody specialists in the digital asset industry, celebrated its 10-year anniversary this year. It is an incumbent, it is an institution and it is led by CEO Mike Belshe.The company was one of a few to raise capital in a depressed market this year, and even more significantly, it raised

Thursday, Aug. 1 Switchboard Releases 'Oracle Aggregator,' to Help Prevent Price-Manipulation Attacks Switchboard, a permissionless and customizable oracle network, has unveiled its new Oracle Aggregator allowing users to seamlessly "aggregate data across multiple oracle networks, including Chainlink and Pyth Network, hardening dApps against price manipulation attacks," according to the team: "In aggregating data off-chain, Switchboard’s