Digital Toy Company Cryptoys Integrating Kid-Friendly AI Chatbot Into NFTs

New York-based crypto mining facility Greenidge Generation has found itself at the center of state and national debates about the impact mining firms have on the environment and their local communities.In New York at least, this debate has led to legislation targeting companies like Greenidge.While the rhetoric used by all sides in the larger bitcoin…

Part of the estimated $400 million stolen last November from the now-shuttered FTX crypto exchange may have links to Russia-based cybercriminal groups, research from analysis firm Elliptic shared with CoinDesk shows.The funds, mostly in ether (ETH), lay dormant for five days before a tranche of 65,000 ETH ($100 million) was transferred to the Bitcoin blockchain

NEWS A Canadian court is taking charge of $26 million CAD claimed by crypto exchange QuadrigaCX due to a dispute over the funds’ provenance. Judge Glenn Hainey of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) an interpleader order on Nov. 9, allowing the court to take control of the funds…

Mar 19, 2020 at 20:44 UTCAs bitcoin (BTC) experiences vertigo-inducing gains, cryptocurrencies are breaking out of a period where they followed or even lagged behind traditional markets. In fact, prices in the crypto market are seeing such a steep upward trend that arbitrage traders are able to trade between Bitfinex and other exchanges to easily…

Binance is now requiring prime brokers to enhance their KYC to block U.S. nationals, according to a Bloomberg report.In court documents unsealed in November, it was revealed that U.S. customers significantly fueled Binance’s rapid growth.Binance is asking its prime brokers to do enhanced Know Your Customer (KYC) work on clients to ensure that they aren’t

Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Sandali Handagama is a CoinDesk reporter with a focus on crypto regulation and policy. She…

The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) indictment against the Tornado Cash developers, filed Wednesday, is commensurate with the government’s seeming disdain for privacy.Across the government, there seems to be an entrenched assumption that an individual’s desire to keep the details of their life private means they’re engaging in wrongdoing. This overly simplistic assumption is not…

The Hong Kong division of global accounting and consulting firm PwC is exploring the best practices for issuing stablecoins, as part of an initiative with the non-profit Loopring Foundation. Announced Tuesday, PwC Hong Kong's Asia-focused study on stablecoins follows a PwC partnership in the U.S. to advise decentralized lending platform Cred, which is working on a U.S.…

news After a four-day vote open to all token holders, users of MakerDAO’s dollar-pegged, ethereum stablecoin DAI have voted to increase the costs associated with its primary service – programmatic lending.  Finalized Thursday, the first round of voting will put in motion another vote to raise the “DAI Stability Fee” that would increase this cost to users…