Crypto OTC Traders Could Have an AI Chatbot Working for Them Come December

opinion Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and CoinDesk’s Director of Research. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a free weekly newsletter focused on crypto assets. Sign up here. Everything flourishes with a bit of attention – even attention itself. You may…

In this week's issue, we're covering crypto developers' renewed focus on the Ethereum blockchain's controversial overreliance on a single software "client" called Geth, and the grumbles of crypto users who were hoping for a bigger token airdrop from the Manta project.Top picks from this week's Protocol Village column of blockchain project updates:Highlights from the annual

After surfacing briefly above $26,000 early Monday morning, bitcoin returned to its recent, more familiar haunts below this threshold.The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was recently trading at $25,850, down a percentage point over the past 24 hours. BTC dipped $26,000 near the end of last week, following a troubling mix of U.S. Securities and…

Dec 24, 2020 at 8:10 p.m. UTCBitcoin will not be calling "checkmate" anytime soon. (Reinhold Silbermann/Pixabay )Market Wrap: Bitcoin Stays in Tight Range but Gains Dominance as XRP CrumblesThe TakeawayBitcoin (BTC) traded around $23,310 as of 19:00 UTC (2 p.m. ET), slipping 1.3% over the previous 24 hours.Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $22,644.56 - $23,672.82 (CoinDesk 20)Derivatives…

Oct 19, 2020 at 10:36 UTCShenzhen store (Sean Fole/Unsplash)First Users Not So Impressed by China’s Digital Yuan: ReportA recent giveaway of China’s in-testing central bank digital currency (CBDC) has reportedly left recipients less than wowed by the user experience.As reported previously, the city of Shenzhen and the People's Bank of China launched a "red envelope"…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is apparently asking a New York judge to levy a $2 billion judgment against Ripple Labs, according to social media posts from the crypto company’s CEO and chief legal officer on Monday.The SEC’s motion for judgment and remedies, filed on Friday, remains under seal to outside parties. According

news Details are emerging on which fiat currencies might back the Libra stablecoin. Bloomberg reported Monday that Facebook wrote a letter to U.S. Senators about Libra, addressing concerns over potential Chinese influence on the cryptocurrency. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) previously wrote to Facebook asking the company to exclude the Chinese yuan from the basket of assets backing the Libra…

Many signs are pointing to BTC hitting $70K in the near future, from technical market data to prediction market betting. Inflows into the U.S. BTC ETFs continue to be significant with $458.5 million inflow during the Wednesday trading day. 01:31 Bitcoin ETFs Are "Trojan Horse for Adoption": Bernstein 01:22 Uptober Forming Amid Rising Stablecoin Liquidity

Dec 23, 2020 at 1:25 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 23, 2020 at 5:02 p.m. UTCSimon Kim, founder and CEO of Hashed(Hashed)South Korea’s Hashed Raises $120M Venture Fund for Crypto DealsHashed, the South Korea-based blockchain firm, has raised a nine-figure investment fund.According to the firm, its new entity, Hashed Ventures, Inc., has raised $120 million for a…