DLT Platform Hedera Hashgraph Completes $100 Million Raise

Stephen Alpher is CoinDesk's co-regional news chief, Americas. He holds BTC above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.Coinbase (COIN) chief legal officer, Paul Grewal apologized for a company newsletter on the memecoin frenzy suggesting that the Pepe the Frog meme, on which red-hot PEPE token is based, has been used in racist ways on the internet."We…

Coinbase Inc. is the first crypto firm to get the gold-standard registration as a futures commission merchant, even as it remains in a legal battle for its life.The Commodity Futures Trading Commission granted Coinbase the ability to handle bitcoin and ether futures, which is another argument that ether is a commodity.As Coinbase Inc. (COIN) scraps…

Cryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital said its loyalty program has driven a sharp increase in funded accounts, which now number 1 million.That is a 23-fold increase from the end of last year, when it had 43,000 funded accounts, the company said in a statement.The broker reported an increase of 135,000 funded accounts in November alone.Voyager Digital…

Real sushi (Kofookoo/Unsplash)A vampire protocol has driven Uniswap to the top of the decentralized finance (DeFi) charts. As of roughly 21:00 UTC, the automated market maker (AMM) has $1.65 billion in total value locked, according to DeFi Pulse, unseating lending platform Aave. Sources with knowledge of the situation tell CoinDesk this is driven largely by…

Jun 30, 2020 at 21:30 UTCSpanish police arrested 33 suspects during their parallel drug raids. (Wikimedia commons)Spain’s National Police on Sunday arrested 33 people who allegedly sold illegal medications online and laundered at least part of their €3 million ($3.37 million) profit in virtual currency. The busts, conducted against two separate organizations, resulted in the…

Prediction markets are having a moment. After Joe Biden's halting debate performance last month led to speculation that he might drop out of the race, the blockchain prediction market Polymarket – where users had already been betting on the incumbent's election odds – became a useful resource for gleaning public sentiment. Polymarket lets users bet

Margaux Nijkerk reports on blockchain protocols with a focus on the Ethereum ecosystem. A graduate of Johns Hopkins and Emory universities, she has a masters in International Affairs & Economics. She holds a very small amount of ETH and other altcoins.Alchemy, which provides tools for software developers to build apps for blockchains, released a public…

news A protocol built to put financial middlemen out of business has secured a $5 million seed round led by Pantera Capital. The Vega Protocol aims to make it feasible for people anywhere in the world to spin up markets for derivatives (futures, swaps, options, etc.) that can interact with each other and abide by…

On Thursday, September 6, the Fresno Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California concluded a 14-month-long civil forfeiture case to seize assets and property that belonged to Alexandre Cazes, the Canadian national who committed suicide by hanging in Thai prison last summer – days after being arrested on suspicion of…