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Shaurya is the Deputy Managing Editor for the Data & Tokens team, focusing on decentralized finance, markets, on-chain data, and governance across all major and minor blockchains.Bitcoin Frogs, the newly-launched non-fungible token (NFT) fashioned after frogs, has become the most-traded collection in the past 24 hours, surpassing even prominent collections, such as Bored Apes.Bitcoin Frogs,…

news A New York judge has ordered crypto exchange Bitfinex to turn over documents pertaining to the exchange’s alleged cover-up of an $850 million loss and a subsequent loan from stablecoin issuer Tether – but not immediately. New York Supreme Court judge Joel M. Cohen said during a Monday afternoon hearing that the preliminary injunction secured by…

Glass, a venture-backed crypto startup that sought to monetize NFT videos, is falling prey to the bear market; its founders are walking away.Co-founders Sam Sends and Varun Iyer posted on X (formerly Twitter) Friday that they will “end active development” of Glass Protocol after determining the demand for digital, tradeable video NFTs was too low

RootstockCollective has been unveiled as the first DAO on Bitcoin layer-2 Rootstock. The DAO will allow holders of Rootstock token RIF to earn voting rights through staking their tokens. NFTs arrived on Bitcoin last year. Then fungible tokens came to the oldest and largest blockchain – along with dozens of new layer-2 networks, and staking

Jul 15, 2020 at 16:00 UTCUpdated Jul 15, 2020 at 16:09 UTCJim Harper wants to stop the IRS from engaging in what he calls unlawful records seizures. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)A former Coinbase user who last August received the now-infamous Internal Revenue Service (IRS) crypto letter is suing to block the tax agency from unlawfully seizing private…

Aug 14, 2020 at 19:00 UTC(Muhammad Faiz Zulkeflee/Unsplash)Fortnite vs. Apple and Google Is the Internet’s First ‘World War’What’s truly at stake is the power to shape and profit from the future of digital experiences. For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox,…

Jan 21, 2020 at 19:00 UTCUpdated Jan 21, 2020 at 19:19 UTCHuobi is rolling out a brokerage service to boost its institutional clients. (Image via Shutterstock)Huobi Group is opening its first digital asset brokerage platform, offering trading products and services to institutional clients and high net-worth customers. Announced Tuesday, the Gibraltar-based Huobi Brokerage is also the…

May 15, 2020 at 22:12 UTCScreenshot of Protocol Lab's Juan Benet's closing keynote address for Consensus: DistributedBlockchain Bites: Last Day of Consensus, Will Crypto Save the Internet?Top ShelfConsensus: Distributed ended on a high note with a keynote address from Juan Benet, founder of Protocol Labs, who granted a rare interview as he closed out the week-long…

The founder and lead developer of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), which aims to simplify blockchain usage by providing human-readable domain names, said he’s "prepared to go to the mat” in an intellectual-property dispute with rival Unstoppable Domains.The comments, made by Nick Johnson in an interview with CoinDesk, come days after a spat between the