Crypto Derivatives Protocol Volmex Finance’s Bitcoin and Ether Volatility Charts Now Live on TradingView

Bitcoin mining facility via CoinDesk archivesThe 2020 Rainy Season Is Tougher Than Ever for China’s Bitcoin MinersThe rain has come. The machines are humming. This should be the best time of the year for China’s bitcoin miners. The monsoon season, generally from June to October, brings excessive rain and thus cheap hydro electricity. But this…

Solana's Saga Phone has an uncertain future because of disappointing sales and changing market dynamics, Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko said during a recent appearance on Laura Shin's Unchained podcast.“We have to decide if there’s a place for a smart wallet, a much cheaper version that an iPhone user could use as a secondary device. We

feature Coinbase has acquired blockchain analytics startup Neutrino as part of a wider push to offer more diverse crypto assets across borders. “This is particularly important as we work with regulators and agencies in different countries to bring new assets there,” Coinbase’s director of engineering and product, Varun Srinivasan, told CoinDesk. He added that Neutrino…

news Payments giant Mastercard is to develop a blockchain-powered cross-border payments platform in partnership with enterprise-focused blockchain firm R3. In an announcement on Wednesday, Mastercard said the two firms have inked a deal to “develop and pilot” the payments solution. It will initially be aimed at connecting faster payments schemes and banks backed by Mastercard’s clearing…

MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen said Friday that the platform’s future native blockchain should be built using the codebase that underpins Solana (SOL), a network designed to provide high-speed performance.In a governance forum post, he said the codebase’s “technical quality,” its “resilience by having gone through the FTX blowup” and already functioning examples make Solana “the

Those of us who follow the blockchain space closely know how quickly things can change, including hot stories like this week's not-so-smooth airdrop of the new STRK tokens from the Ethereum layer-2 network Starknet.But occasionally a big trend comes along. That seems to be happening now, with "liquid restaking protocols" and their "liquid restaking tokens"

Dr. Qichao Hu is the founder and CEO of SES AI, a Boston-based, Li-Metal EV battery manufacturer that is building the world’s first transparent and intelligent EV battery supply chain. All eyes are on electric vehicles.The Biden administration last month announced a historic overhaul to ramp up adoption of EVs. Under new regulations put forth…

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service will require crypto brokers to file 1099 forms like their traditional investment-firm cousins, but decentralized finance (DeFi) operations and non-hosted wallet providers will have to wait for their own rule later in the year. The rule released Friday will go into effect for transactions starting in

BTC has registered its first three-week winning trend since February. Dealers have seen massive call buying activity at the $75,000 strike price and beyond and put selling, according to Amberdata. Bitcoin (BTC) has notched its first three-week winning streak since February, according to data source TradingView. The upswing has been characterized by traders buying call