Dan Tapiero Launches $200M Fund to Invest in Crypto Companies

news Samsung SDS, the enterprise technology arm of the South Korean behemoth, is enhancing privacy on its Nexledger blockchain with zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs). The company said Thursday it had formed a partnership with Israel-based QEDIT to record and authenticate the transfer of assets on a shared ledger without revealing underlying confidential information. The step underscores…

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 StoriesBitcoin rose slightly on Thursday as traders digested concerns of a ruling in the FTX court case that temporarily spooked markets earlier this week. BTC added

Bitcoin broke above $37,000 early Monday on the back of the appointment of Javier Milei, a pro-bitcoin candidate, as the President of Argentina.The artificial intelligence (AI) focused token sector added over 8% amid key, but unrelated, developments in rising AI upstarts.However, some traders warn of a market reaction after Federal Reserve meeting notes are released

This is a developing story and will be updated frequently throughout the day.NEW YORK — Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison retook the stand on Wednesday, after testifying that her former boss and ex-boyfriend, Sam Bankman-Fried, had directed many of FTX's now-public missteps.Shortly after Ellison resumed her testimony, Judge Lewis Kaplan dealt the defense another

opinion Sina Nader is the founder of CryptoLux Capital, a private asset management firm. Daniel Cawrey is CEO of Pactum Capital, a crypto hedge fund, market maker and liquidity provider. —————— If it walks like a VC, talks like a VC and acts like a VC, it’s probably not a hedge fund. And yet numerous…

news Huobi Global will kick all of its U.S. customers off its platform later this month. The cryptocurrency exchange announced it would freeze all U.S. accounts on Nov. 13, framing the move as a compliance step made to conform to U.S. laws and regulations. Huobi is recommending that customers transfer their assets to HBUS, the…

The U.S. government on Friday will report on the employment situation for November and the data could add fuel to or snuff the recent advance for bitcoin (BTC).While optimism about what is looking like imminent U.S. regulatory approval of a spot bitcoin ETF is getting most of the attention as the reason for bitcoin's move

feature While some blockchain projects quickly burned through the capital they raised during the heady days of 2017, others prepared for this market downturn by limiting access to their own funds. Such was the case at the New York-based blockchain startup Blockstack, which raised nearly $54 million in 2016 and 2017 from a Series A…

Betters on decentralized prediction platform Polymarket really aren't sure if Sam Altman will be coming back as OpenAI's chief executive amidst ongoing corporate drama.On Polymarket, shares of the Yes side of the contract "Sam back as CEO of OpenAI" are currently trading at 55 cents, representing a market belief that the Yes side has a