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feature Thirteen coders and academics gathered this week at Chaincode Labs in New York City for the bitcoin protocol residency program, in what organizers say is the most intensive and diverse cohort to date. It would be hard to overstate how impactful this quiet program is, as one of the few resources for independent developers…

May 19, 2020 at 04:00 UTCVitalik Buterin filmed during recording of Unchained Podcast. Credit: Christine Kim for CoinDesk.Vitalik Buterin has called for lawmakers to be more accommodating to blockchain protocols, saying they can actually help antitrust agencies fight monopolies and anti-competitive behavior. Together with Thibault Schrepel, an antitrust academic and Harvard faculty associate, the creator…

news Alleged BTC-e exchange operator Alexander Vinnik, who is accused of laundering billions of dollars, is officially seeking extradition to Russia. According to a report from local news source e-Kathimerini on Thursday, Vinnik, a Russian national, has filed an appeal in a Piraeus city court for release or extradition to his home nation for humanitarian…

Bitcoin ETP Listed on Europe’s Third-Largest ExchangeDeutsche Boerse has listed an exchange-traded product (ETP) that tracks the value of bitcoin. 21Shares, a Swiss-based product provider formerly known as Amun, said its bitcoin ETP had been officially accepted Wednesday to list on Xetra, Deutsche Boerse’s electronic trading venue. “The listing on Xetra not only strengthens our…

Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He doesn’t own any crypto.Social media influencers would be allowed to promote products of registered crypto companies like Binance under proposals agreed by the French Senate’s Economics Committee on Wednesday.Senators appear to favor less restrictive measures than their counterparts in Paris’…

news The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has released its full 2019 financial report, offering some insight into its upcoming distributed ledger-based settlement system. A project that was announced back in late 2017 after trials with blockchain tech had proved promising, the DLT platform is aimed to replace ASX’s ageing CHESS settlement system using technology built…

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), an umbrella organization of Canada's provincial and territorial securities regulators, is warning investors about crypto companies that claim to be authorized by fictitious regulatory or dispute-resolution organizations.“In an effort to appear legitimate, the purported trading service providers claim they are certified by a fictitious authority or that they are members…

Nasdaq might be on the cusp of giving institutional investors an analytical edge on trading hundreds of crypto assets. According to a person familiar with the company's plans, the U.S. stock exchange is preparing to add tools for predicting the price movements of crypto assets to its Analytics Hub. The hub, launched last year, draws…

news With a mission of “bringing distributed finance to everyone,” five open-source blockchain developers have come together to form a distributed finance platform using blockchain technology that allows for decentralized and non-custodial cryptocurrency trading. Established in 2017, founders Fabio Canesin, Fabian Wahle, Ethan Fast, Thomas Saunders, and Luciano Engel built Nash as an integrated financial…