CoinDesk Indices, Crypto Asset Manager CoinFund Launch an Ethereum Staking Benchmark Rate

IBIT options surpassed $2 billion in notional exposure. The launch of options on bitcoin ETFs had the approval of just 25,000 contracts as a position limit. According to Bitwise's head of alpha strategies, Jeff Park, by industry standards, bitcoin ETF options should have seen around 400,000 contracts. 01:01 Bitcoin Breaks $64K While Gold Soars 00:56

In an industry where the whole point is to revolutionize the business of money, the hunt for actual money is quite real. Sometimes it comes in tokens, sometimes in cash; when teams run out of money, jobs are lost. When projects hit a stride, developers reap windfalls – though not always. We've got all sorts

news A primary challenger to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is looking to change the way the federal government regulates the blockchain industry, in addition to raising $1 million in cryptocurrency donations. 2020 congressional candidate hopeful Agatha Bacelar (D) is looking to unseat Pelosi in California’s 12th district, according to her campaign…

BTC’s fall below $26,000 is poised to be the worst weekly decline since the collapse of FTX.Absence of a decision in the closely followed Grayscale vs. SEC lawsuit didn’t support the recovery.Market observers are divided on whether the correction is over.Bitcoin (BTC) is poised to endure its worst weekly decline since the FTX crash last…

Bitcoin's 200-day average is on track to challenge its previous peak of $49,452 from February 2022.Past data show the most intense phase of the bull cycle unfolds after this average surpasses its previous peak.Bitcoin's (BTC) price moved into bullish territory above the 200-day simple moving average (SMA) in October, setting record highs above $73,000 last

The likelihood of having a spot market bitcoin ETF, or exchange-traded fund, ready to list on the market by year’s end is now a near certainty. After years of legal wrangling, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has run out the clock on applying to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which recently excoriated the

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Blockchain Bites: DeFi and DEXs Surge, Bitcoin’s Negligible Adjustment and an ICO Class ActionDeFi’s agricultural revolution is spurring growth in decentralized exchanges. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin network experienced its lowest difficulty adjustment in 10 years, clocking a negligible change in mining difficulty today, while a novel legal strategy is bringing an initial coin offering project to court.…

Sep 17, 2020 at 16:32 UTCUpdated Sep 17, 2020 at 16:33 UTCU.S. Homeland Security’s moonshots division, the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), is trying to crowdsource a digital wallet. Directorate officials are putting $25,000 up for grabs in their new digital wallet challenge, a user interface design competition to pair with DHS’s work in the…