Ethereum-Based Carbon Tracker Carbonable Raises $1.2M to Tackle Greenwashing

Nov 26, 2019 at 10:00 UTCUpdated Nov 26, 2019 at 09:14 UTCCelo team. Image via CoinDesk archivesEx-DOJ, Capital One Exec to Lead Compliance at Crypto Payments Startup Celo LabsThe company working on mobile-friendly cryptocurrency payments tool Celo has hired a former U.S. government official and bank executive to head up its global regulatory, risk and…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) projects flourished in the summer of 2020, enriched by bull market-driven cascades of venture capital funding and reaching a high of $248.84 billion in total value locked by the following fall. Crypto winter set in less than two years later, however, the chill increased by a number of industry-rocking scandals and hacks.…

A flurry of crypto investment funds were announced, as NYDIG predicts it will see $25 billion in bitcoin under management by year's end.(Shutterstock)Feb 4, 2021 at 5:58 p.m. UTCBlockchain Bites: The Rise of the Bitcoin Investment FundThree stories1. Qualified investors are plowing money into cryptocurrency-focused investment funds. Yesterday, macro trader Dan Tapiero, most known for…

NFT Inspect, a popular non-fungible token (NFT) analysis and community tool getting a second life, is partnering with Web3 infrastructure company MoonPay to allow users on Twitter to purchase NFTs and cryptocurrencies through its Chrome browser extension.Last month, Inspect released a new Chrome browser extension that provides real-time data on popular NFT collections commonly used…

markets The price of bitcoin is up over $300 from today’s low and now has its sight set on a key technical hurdle that, if surpassed, could spark a stronger rally, analysis suggests. At 15:00 UTC, bitcoin’s price began its ascent, invalidating what was a narrow trading range between $3,580 and $3,630. The move occurred just…

news ConsenSys chief strategy officer Sam Cassatt is stepping down to launch a new venture fund, Aligned Capital, with the backing of ConsenSys founder Joe Lubin. ConsenSys said Cassatt will stay on with the ethereum venture studio in an advisory capacity. Speaking Friday at San Francisco’s TransTech Conference, Cassatt said his fund is seeking to…

May 19, 2020 at 11:55 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/Roman SamborskyiFirst Mover: Bitcoin Difficulty Adjustment Feels Like Post-Halving Easing PartyAt its core, the Bitcoin blockchain is a sprawling global machine – a human-created network of human-operated computers.And for bitcoin traders, it's bullish that key events on the blockchain network over the past couple weeks have gone smoothly, showing that the machine…

As well as creating envy among other crypto exchanges, Base appears to out-gunning other secondary Ethereum networks. Base’s largest DeFi protocol, Aerodrome Finance, shows that almost all of the top markets, especially when excluding stablecoin swaps, are memecoin-linked trading pools. The ease with which users of Coinbase can onboard to Base has also been a

Dec 14, 2019 at 14:00 UTCUpdated Dec 14, 2019 at 04:14 UTCThis 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. Halsey Minor started CNET, and was involved in a string of companies. Today he leads Live Planet VR…