Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 21, 2021

The chairman of Korea's National Policy Committee has called for the legalization of initial coin offerings (ICOs), provided that a regulatory framework is put in place. According to a report from CoinDesk Korea on Tuesday, Min Byung-Doo, who is a member of the country's governing Democratic party, said that, with token sales becoming a global…

Messaging giant LINE has officially announced the first five decentralized apps (dapps) to launch on its custom blockchain platform. The company said in a press release Friday that prediction, question-and-answer, product review, food review and location review dapps will launch in the coming weeks as the company works to build up its own token economy.…

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB), a fully managed service that lets users build applications faster using provision blockchain infrastructure, expanded the general availability of Access and Query functions.The announcement came during the two-day AWS Web3/Blockchain Summit in New York City.Amazon Web Services is the largest provider of cloud services in the world. The Seattle-founded tech giant…

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1584.54, down 22.6% (-462.38) since last Friday's close. None of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: HBAR (-18.9%) and ATOM (-19.2%). Laggards: NEAR (-30.1%) and LINK (-28.9%). The

Shortly before Asia TradFi markets opened on Tuesday, bitcoin was slogging just above $29,200, roughly flat over the past 24 hours but still stuck in the same narrow range it's been occupying for a week.The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization sank from a brief early Monday morning high above $29,500 as markets absorbed the latest…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesThe wait for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to respond to spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications continues, with a final deadline for at

Mar 30, 2020 at 11:38 UTCBitcoin Diverges From Falling Equities With $500 Price RiseBitcoin is looking buoyant Monday despite renewed risk aversion in traditional markets. The top cryptocurrency by market value picked up bids near $5,850 during the Asian trading hours and rose around $500 to $6,344 at 07:14 UTC. At press time, the global…

Sep 30, 2020 at 17:22 UTCUpdated Sep 30, 2020 at 17:36 UTCBitFlyer Europe is giving its European bitcoin traders direct access to the Tokyo-based parent exchange’s Japanese liquidity.Announced Wednesday, the cross-border initiative opens Japan's high-volume bitcoin markets to European traders courting the bitcoin/Japanese yen trading pair.BitFlyer said in a press statement the new approach eases…

The patent, originally filed last week, would allow players of Sony products such as its flagship Playstation to have an interoperable Web3 gameplay experience. Gamers would be allowed to transfer in-game assets between devices such as virtual reality (VR) headsets, tablets, computers and smartphones. The patent application also noted that “In some examples, the NFT…