Coinbase’s Wallet Service Now Lists Ink Protocol’s New Payments Dapp

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe said it's "quite likely" the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will reject a series of spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications despite industry-wide optimism.Speaking in a Bloomberg interview, Belshe said the SEC might reject current applications on the basis that exchanges and custody are not separated. Coinbase (COIN) has

Domo, the pseudonymous creator of the Bitcoin network's BRC-20 token standard, announced on Monday that his non-profit organization, Layer 1 Foundation (L1F), will partner with Bitcoin infrastructure companies UniSat and Best in Slot to serve as BRC-20's "lead maintainers."The BRC-20 token standard functions on the Ordinals Protocol, which allows digital assets other than BTC to

Jan 22, 2020 at 01:35 UTCDAVOS — Switzerland’s banking industry has long been known to privately safeguard wealth, so some bankers see bitcoin as a natural fit for the nation’s financial sector.Although such bankers may still be a minority, Zurich-based SEBA Bank AG opened in November 2019 with a universal banking license and a suite of…

Aug 27, 2020 at 14:39 UTCUpdated Aug 27, 2020 at 14:40 UTC(Jonathan Petersson/Unsplash)David Dias is a research engineer at Protocol Labs. He specializes in peer-to-peer networking and distributed systems. Electricity, water, gas – these are just some of the public utilities we use every day, whether for cooking food in the morning, heating homes throughout…

Jul 24, 2020 at 08:51 UTCUpdated Jul 24, 2020 at 08:54 UTCTomas Holub, Czech National Bank board member (image courtesy CNB)Czech Central Bank Board Member Criticizes CBDCs as ‘Helicopter Money’A board member of the Czech National Bank has provided a less than glowing opinion on the current viability of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Tomas Holub…

Bitcoin layer-2 infrastructure developer Lightning Labs has released its Taproot Assets protocol on the main network, enabling the issuance of stablecoins and other assets on Bitcoin and Lightning.Taproot Assets will give developers "the tools needed to make Bitcoin a multi-asset network, but in a scalable manner that upholds Bitcoin's core values," Ryan Gentry, director of

May 7, 2020 at 16:35 UTCUpdated May 7, 2020 at 16:36 UTCBlockchain Bites: Introducing the CoinDesk 50 and a Roadmap to Consensus: DistributedCredit: Cavendish DesignThe CoinDesk 50Congratulations to the inaugural CoinDesk 50. This new list features the most important, innovative and viable projects in the crypto and blockchain industry. In just 11 years, cryptocurrency and its…

The market for tokenized assets could reach $10 trillion in a "bull case" and $3.5 trillion in the "bear case," according to digital asset manager 21.co.Crypto is currently undergoing a maturation phase and increasingly integrating with existing financial plumbing.Regulatory restrictions and lack of standards pose challenges for widespread tokenization.The market for tokenized assets could grow

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