Ethereum Is Getting Its First Top-Level Domain Name

Today’s newsletter marks my one-year anniversary of curating the Crypto for Advisor newsletter. Time flies when you are having fun, and it’s hard to believe I have 52 issues under my belt. Thanks to CoinDesk and particularly Kim Klemballa for giving me this opportunity along with all of our valued newsletter contributors who spend their

news France’s economic and finance minister says Libra is “unacceptable,” calling it an intrusion into the state’s political sovereignty. Writing in a Financial Times op-ed on Thursday, Bruno Le Maire said the Facebook-led project is usurping the sovereign right of states to issue their own currencies, which will have dramatic and unforeseen repercussions. The Libra Association signed…

Yat SiuCo-Founder and Executive ChairmanAnimoca BrandsWhere is Web3 headed? Take a look to the future with this pioneering investor in the metaverse and NFTs.Yat SiuCo-Founder and Executive ChairmanAnimoca BrandsWhere is Web3 headed? Take a look to the future with this pioneering investor in the metaverse and NFTs.Brandy covers crypto-related venture capital deals for CoinDesk. Yat…

Custody provider Liminal won Abu Dhabi's approval to operate as a regulated custodian within the Middle East.The Singapore-headquartered company is now functioning with regulators' blessings in the Middle East and India as well as its home base.Liminal, a Singapore-headquartered provider of custody services, won regulatory approval in Abu Dhabi as its expansion outside its home

Dec 24, 2019 at 16:45 UTCRussian policeman, image via ShutterstockSomeone has been sending bomb threats across Russia, demanding $870,000 worth of bitcoin supposedly stolen from the defunct cryptocurrency exchange WEX.For almost a month, anonymous blackmailers have been threatening to blow up courts, schools, shopping malls, transportation hubs and a television station unless someone sends “120…

Dec 10, 2020 at 7:40 p.m. UTC(SEC and Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News)SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on a Bitcoin ETF, Custody Rules and What’s Next for the SECThe SEC commissioner explains why the SEC’s approach has been “too slow and too ambiguous” and why she’s optimistic for 2021. For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3…

Previously, customers were able to earn rewards from the Algorand protocol via Coinbase. Coinbase acted as the service provider connecting the user and the protocol, passing on rewards earned from staking. According to the exchange’s website, users can still earn staking rewards from Ethereum, Cosmos, Tezos, Cardano and Solana.

news Chat with your friends – and get paid to do it. The Stellar Development Foundation and messaging service Keybase announced Monday a 2 billion XLM airdrop, the largest in Stellar’s five-year history, worth roughly $120 million. Over the next 20 months, Keybase users can expect monthly airdrops of 100 million XLM. Keybase currently has…

Marc Hochstein is CoinDesk's executive editor. He owns some bitcoin.As bitcoin blasted through new all-time highs Wednesday, the following joke made the rounds.Jamie Dimon walks into a bar and orders a martini.“Bitcoin or cash?” asks the bartender.“You want to know my opinion on bitcoin?” says the JPMorgan CEO. “It’s worthless.”The bartender replies: “I know, but…