Ethereum open interest hits 20-month high: Bullish or bearish for ETH?

The lawsuit alleged that the VC firms made many deceptive and misleading statements about FTX while encouraging customers to invest in the exchange for their personal gain. 395 Total views 12 Total shares Eighteen leading venture capital (VC) investment firms, including Temasek, Sequoia Capital, Sino Global and Softbank, have been named as defendants in a class-action…

Sky high gas prices may make synths more costly than the real thing. 814 Total views 9 Total shares Decentralized finance protocol Kwenta has launched a series of synthetic tokens for popular stocks — but current gas prices could make trading them more expensive than buying the real thing.In a blog post on April 23,…

Australia’s largest precious metal refinery, the Perth Mint, and InfiGold, a fintech startup focused on precious metals digitization, have jointly launched a gold-backed digital token.The new ERC-20 token is dubbed Perth Mint Gold Token (PMGT) and pegged 1:1 with GoldPass certificates issued by the Perth Mint, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on…

Sberbank has applied with the Central Bank of Russia to launch a blockchain platform for its “Sbercoin” stablecoin. 5086 Total views 14 Total shares Sberbank, the largest state-owned bank in Russia, has reportedly filed an application with the Bank of Russia to launch a blockchain platform for its “Sbercoin” stablecoin.Sergey Popov, director of the transaction…

On the heels of new Anti-Money Laundering laws, several German banks are reported to be seeking regulators’ go-ahead to offer digital assets services. Local newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Feb. 7 that Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) is dealing with a cascade of applications from 40 banks seeking to become regulated cryptocurrency custodians. As of Jan. 2020,…

The crypto exchange cited Coin Center’s work in challenging the proposed FinCEN self-hosted wallet rule as well as the STABLE Act from the U.S. government. 964 Total views 6 Total shares Kraken has pledged $100,000 to Coin Center, a cryptocurrency advocacy group based in Washington D.C.In a blog from the crypto exchange today, Kraken said…

Naples’ mayor, Luigi de Magistris, has posted an impassioned pledge to launch an autonomous municipal cryptocurrency that, he says, would unshackle the city from “anti-southern discrimination” and “unfair” debt, on his Facebook public profile September 2.De Magistris argued for the new currency as part of a threefold plan of action that would reclaim political and…

Given the hints below, guess who makes the top 10 in Cointelegraph’s Top 100 for 2023, with profiles 4–10 now published. Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTFeb. 21 lifts the curtains on numbers 4–10 of the most impactful crypto and blockchain sector players, according to Cointelegraph’s 2023 Top 100 list.The…

"I think when all’s said and done, investors will be given a choice: they have to invest in something, and if rates are rising, blockchain is going to be the most relatively attractive," said Dan Morehead. 1039 Total views 7 Total shares The CEO and founder of leading blockchain venture fund Pantera Capital, Dan Morehead,…