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Daniel Kuhn is a reporter on CoinDesk's Features team. He owns BTC and ETH.The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has neither confirmed nor denied a report that it’s investigating a popular Ethereum-based betting market. But you’re free to place bets on the likelihood of such a probe on the platform at the center of…

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become one of the hottest and arguably the most transformational technology trends of the last few decades. The impact of generative AI is evident in all areas of the technology stack, ranging from infrastructure to applications.Since the release of ChatGPT and the subsequent GPT-4, the Web3 community has been…

Mar 3, 2020 at 12:00 UTCUpdated Mar 3, 2020 at 12:34 UTCWarren in South Carolina, via Ali PowellHow Elizabeth Warren’s Beef With Facebook Could Benefit BitcoinSen. Elizabeth Warren is crusading against big banks as one of her core platforms for the 2020 presidential election, but it’s her social media policies that may have the most…

news Vanbex, a Canadian blockchain company mired in a criminal investigation and several lawsuits, has sold its intellectual property to Toronto-based crypto brokerage Hyperion for an undisclosed price. “This acquisition allows the value of the products and the business models they represent to continue under Hyperion’s banner,” Lisa Cheng, co-founder of Vanbex, said in a press release issued Wednesday…

As we push towards Web3 mass adoption, there has been a major emphasis on educating crypto traders. While a solid start, we could have a more lasting impact if we also focus on education through the workforce. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, companies began moving away from outdated operational technology and embracing the

Non-crypto related deposits held by former Signature Bank (now Signature Bridge Bank) will be assumed by Flagstar Bank, N.A., a subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp, as of Monday, according to the FDIC. Custodia Bank founder and CEO Caitlin Long reacted. Plus, former White House National Security Council Director of Cybersecurity and Secure Digital Innovation…

Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market value, was recently hovering around $1,690, up 2% from Wednesday at the same time. BNB, the native token of the Binance-initiated blockchain network BNB Chain and fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, jumped 7% to trade at $328 from roughly $300 a day ago. Indexing protocol The Graph's GRT…

Feb 12, 2020 at 15:06 UTCUpdated Feb 12, 2020 at 15:21 UTCVoyager founder and CEO Steve Ehrlich (right) image via CoinDesk archivesVoyager has acquired the retail-focused Circle Invest app from Circle, the companies announced Wednesday.According to an email sent to Circle Invest users, Voyager is in the process of converting accounts to its own platform,…

Turns out the "no inflation" meme may not be here to stay.Jan 20, 2021 at 11:15 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 20, 2021 at 11:16 p.m. UTC‘Let’s Not Be Bitcoin’: Yearn Finance Considers Minting $200M in New YFI TokensBitcoin may be the original cryptocurrency, but that doesn’t mean leading decentralized finance (DeFi) projects aren’t feeling self-confident enough…