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May 21, 2020 at 20:55 UTCOpinionFinance and the Real Economy Can’t Stay Out of Sync ForeverJill Carlson, a CoinDesk columnist, is co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit research organization working to guarantee the right to a free and open financial system. She is also an investor in early-stage startups with Slow Ventures. Have…

Oct 1, 2020 at 21:44 UTCUpdated Oct 1, 2020 at 22:02 UTC(Lemon_tm/iStock / Getty Images Plus)DeFi Degens Hit Hard by Eminence Exploit Will Be Partially CompensatedIt all started with a couple of retweets.On September 28, Andrew Cronje, the head honcho at Yearn Finance, retweeted graphic designs for a new project called Eminence, so described by…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Jamie Crawley is a CoinDesk news reporter based in London.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Blocknox, a part of Boerse Stuttgart's digital unit, has received the final license as a crypto…

markets View Bitcoin’s repeated failure to produce a strong bounce from key support indicates the bullish sentiment has fizzled somewhat. Failure to hold above a bearish MA on the longer-term chart indicates scope for a deeper drop. BTC risks falling to $8,800 in the short-term and may extend the decline to $8,500. A high-volume triangle…

Job postings describe a walled garden-type digital currency that could roll out in emerging economies. (Bloomberg/Getty)Feb 10, 2021 at 11:46 p.m. UTCAmazon Preparing to Launch a ‘Digital Currency’ Project in MexicoAmazon’s grip on the internet economy appears to be coming for currency next, with the e-commerce giant preparing to launch a “digital currency” project in…

news An HSBC executive has said that the bank’s blockchain-based system has helped it cut the costs of settling foreign exchange trades. Speaking to Reuters, Mark Williamson, chief operating officer of FX cash trading and risk management, who oversees the blockchain project, said that its HSBC FX Everywhere platform saved it 25 percent as compared with…

Nov 18, 2020 at 11:09 p.m. UTCMintbase co-founders Carolin Wend and Nate Geier(Mintbase)Mintbase Raises $1M Seed Round to Bring NFTs to NEAR ProtocolBerlin-based non-fungible token (NFT) platform Mintbase has closed a $1 million seed funding round.The round, led by Chinese venture capital firm Sino Global and with participation from D1 Ventures, Block Oracle Capital, Arweave…

Oct 14, 2020 at 12:48 UTCUpdated Oct 14, 2020 at 13:21 UTCLitecoin's Charlie Lee(CoinDesk Archives, modified by CoinDesk)First Mover: Privacy Is Litecoin’s Ace in the Hole as JPMorgan Touts BitcoinLitecoin (LTC), a nine-year-old cryptocurrency whose price returns have chronically underperformed the bigger and better-known bitcoin in recent years, is hitching its wagon to a new star: privacy.The blockchain…

Crypto bridging protocol LayerZero is set to expand to the Solana blockchain on Wednesday, adding another route for crypto assets transferring between the Ethereum world and its largest singular competitor.Crypto holders on Solana will be able to move their assets to Arbitrum, Ethereum, Polygon and the 70 other chains it links to – and vice-versa