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Three years ago, Microsoft Azure was the first to bring blockchain to the cloud. Now it's connecting the technology to just about everything else. The software giant has quietly been building bridges between its blockchain services and other, widely used infrastructure and platforms, such as Office 365 Outlook, SharePoint Online, Salesforce, Dynamics 365 CRM Online, SAP,…

Interest in the impending increased use of bitcoin (BTC) in financial markets through a potential spot exchange-traded funds (ETF) has filtered through to retail investors, Google Trends data appears to show.The worldwide Google search value for the phrase "spot bitcoin ETF" for a five-year window is on track to hit the peak value of 100

Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team.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…

Mar 3, 2020 at 10:00 UTCUpdated Mar 3, 2020 at 10:05 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/Dilok KlaisatapornEven With CBDCs, the State Won’t Forfeit Its Power Over MoneyJames Cooper is a professor of law at California Western School of Law in San Diego. A former contractor for the U.S. and advisor to governments and indigenous peoples concerning disruptive technologies…

Ethereum topped the first institutional-grade crypto ESG ranking followed by Solana and Cardano, while Bitcoin lagged due to its heavy energy usage, according to crypto data firm CCData’s research.CCData’s inaugural ESG Benchmark, created in unison with the Crypto Carbon Ratings Institute (CCRI), was published on Thursday. It evaluated 40 of the largest, most liquid digital…

Nov 12, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. UTCDeFi Dashboard Zapper Snags New Funding From Delphi and Coinbase VenturesZapper announced Thursday an extension of its seed investment round with new backing from Delphi Digital and Coinbase. The additional amount on the $1.5 million round was not disclosed.Zapper runs an asset management portal for decentralized finance (DeFi) on…

feature Ethereum developers are using the Lightning payments network to build bridges into the bitcoin ecosystem. The venture-backed crypto startup Radar Relay, best known for its decentralized exchange (DEX) relayers for 0x, just launched a service called RedShift, which allows people to pay a lightning invoice from an ethereum wallet. Radar product lead Brandon Curtis…

Binance.US is witnessing market makers and traders flee the exchange en masse following last week’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit against it, alleging multiple securities violations.Just one week after the lawsuit, liquidity, which is measured by aggregated market depth for 17 tokens on Binance.US, has dropped 76%, according to a report by Kaiko. The…

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 (BTC) moved past $71,000 during the Asian hours, setting a new lifetime high. The leading cryptocurrency has been steadily rising since the approval of the