Cryptocurrency Market to See More Upside Following Bank Problems: Bernstein

Dec 19, 2019 at 12:00 UTCNathaniel Whittemore, curator of "Long Reads Sunday"Mind-Bending Narrative Shifts in 2019This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Nathaniel Whittemore is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as…

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 Prices Latest crypto prices. (CoinDesk) (CoinDesk) Top Stories Bitcoin consolidated above $61,000, lacking a clear directional bias before the release of the Fed's preferred

The Takeaway:Audius is an Ethereum-based streaming app looking to take on Spotify and Apple Music by offering artists a better deal.Like many blockchain projects, Audius is both a company and a network controlled by token holders.Audius has thousands of regular listeners using it, with a strong base in EDM and a growing cadre of underground…

Cryptocurrency exchange startup Quione has launched a new trading platform that it says will bring much needed liquidity to the crypto markets. Called Liquid, the new service is a cryptocurrency trading "portal" that provides users with access to what it claims in a press release is "a worldwide network of cryptocurrency exchanges." With a lack of liquidity…

Tech Bureau, the firm behind the Japanese crypto exchange Zaif, has revealed a drastic new plan to compensate users after a major hack last month. Tech Bureau said in a release Wednesday that it had signed an agreement with Fisco – a publicly listed investment firm in Japan – to transfer in full the Zaif business to Fisco's…

Avail, a closely watched blockchain data-availability project currently running on a test network, is sketching out the eligibility criteria for a token airdrop – a move that would follow in the footsteps of the rival data project Celestia, whose own token has gained a market capitalization of more than $1 billion.A screenshot of a document

Onchain Summer celebrates the launch of Coinbase's new layer 2 network, Base, with multiple events each week.Coca-Cola and popular DAOs like Friends With Benefits and Nouns are participating in different activations.Let’s face it: non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aren’t having a hot girl summer.Perhaps “Onchain Summer,” crypto exchange Coinbase’s (COIN) event to celebrate the launch of its…

"Consensus by bet – that didn't work. Hub and spoke chains – that didn't work. Proof-of-proof-of-work – that didn't work. Hyper cube chains – that also didn't work!" Singing on stage alongside songwriter Jonathan Mann, ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin ended his keynote at Devcon4 in Prague on Wednesday, with a song that listed "the graveyard…

Nearly a year after alleged crypto market manipulator Avi Eisenberg raided the blockchain-based trading protocol Mango Markets for more than $100 million, the platform’s stakeholders are struggling to afford growing legal expenses.And based on the early voting results on a key proposal from the platform’s founder, they appear reluctant to keep footing the bill.Mango Labs,…