Ethereum Is Getting Its First Top-Level Domain Name

When Gary Gensler’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week filed securities charges against America’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, they were premised on a single core idea: that U.S. law already includes the necessary tools to regulate cryptocurrency assets and marketplaces. Gensler, an appointee of the Biden administration, has consistently repeated that crypto doesn’t need new…

For the vast majority of crypto investors, dollar-cost averaging (DCA) appears to be a must. That’s according to a recent survey by US crypto exchange Kraken, which found that 83% of crypto investors have used dollar-cost averaging in the past to acquire their coins, with 59% of respondents stating it was their primary investment strategy.

BRUSSELS – Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin gave a keynote talk about hardening the Ethereum blockchain as a base layer, in front of a packed room full of an estimated 1,100 attendees, at a developer conference in Brussels on Wednesday. Buterin spoke at length during his presentation at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) about the strengths

Jul 20, 2020 at 08:56 UTCUpdated Jul 20, 2020 at 08:58 UTCToronto, Ontario (Roland Shainidze/Shutterstock)Canada-based crypto trading platform Coinsquare has been accused by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) of inflating its trading volumes in an illegal practice called wash trading. In a Statement of Allegations from the OSC, filed last Thursday, the regulator alleges Coinsquare’s…

news Crypto data provider CoinMarketCap says most listed exchanges have complied with its transparency-boosting mandatory data requests. The news marks the end of the first phase of the site’s Data Accountability & Transparency Alliance (DATA) initiative, which pushes for stricter disclosures, which include live trading and order book data. More accurate, timely and unbiased information will enable site…

Lens Protocol embraces an open governance model where community members can participate in the decision-making process for future development.Of the three live proposals, two revolve center around open standards for algorithms and metadata.Lens Protocol – a decentralized social media platform that originated from DeFi lending giant Aave – introduced Thursday a new open governance model…

Oct 13, 2020 at 18:44 UTCUpdated Oct 13, 2020 at 19:01 UTCThe Financial Stability Board (FSB) recommended on Tuesday that governments closely regulate “global stablecoin” projects to keep those privately issued currency competitors from disrupting the world economy. FSB unveiled 10 "recommendations" for regulating stablecoin data safeguards, contingency plans, governance frameworks and other apparent pain…

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.On this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce’s recent speech: “Lawless in Austin.”“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown”…

feature “Hey are you set up with lightning? To send and receive lightning payments?” The day I held the Lightning Torch was the day I learned how the lightning network works. Living in Venezuela, the experimental payments network had somehow skipped my Twitter feed until I received the following message from renowned crypto advisor Jill…