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Seattle-based decentralized finance (DeFi) platform EigenLayer has deployed its restaking protocol on the Ethereum mainnet, according to a press release.The protocol allows those staking ETH to restake on EigenLayer by depositing liquid staking tokens including Lido stETH (stETH), Rocket Pool ETH (rETH) and Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH (cbETH).EigenLabs, the developer of EigenLayer, raised a total…

Mar 6, 2020 at 17:07 UTCUpdated Mar 6, 2020 at 17:23 UTCBinance US CEO Catherine Coley and Stellar Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon join CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen to debunk myths about gender for International Women’s Day.  For daily insights and unique perspectives listen or subscribe to the CoinDesk Podcast Network with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts,…

The brief rally in the cryptocurrency markets following Friday's U.S. jobs report quickly reversed in volatile action. Bitcoin (BTC) jumped to $57,000 earlier today following the key report, only to the erase its gains and tumble below $55,000. The largest crypto was down nearly 4% over the past 24 hours. The selloff was broad-based, with

Surveillance era. (Photo by Shutterstock)‘Financial Surveillance’ or ‘Blockchain Analysis’? Human Rights Foundation Debates Elliptic“I think you should quit your job and go and work for the good guys,” the Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein told Tom Robinson, the founder of crypto compliance firm Elliptic, Monday afternoon. The two were debating blockchain surveillance as part of…

A federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which sought to freeze assets belonging to crypto startup Blockvest based on alleged violations of securities laws. In a ruling dated Nov. 27, U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel ruled that the SEC has not proven that Blockvest –…

Jan 6, 2021 at 12:59 a.m. UTCUpdated Jan 6, 2021 at 1:04 a.m. UTCBitGo Launches Wrapped Bitcoin, Ether on Tron BlockchainBitGo’s Ethereum-based tokenized bitcoin project, Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), has expanded to its second blockchain, Tron. The crypto custodian has also launched Wrapped Ether (WETH) on Tron as well. BitGo clients are already minting WBTC and…

U.K. regulator the Financial Conduct Authority charged Olumide Osunkoya, 45 year old Londoner for running a network of illegal crypto ATM's. These are also the first charges brought against a person accused of running a network of crypto ATMs in the U.K., the FCA said. U.K. regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) charged an individual

news The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined Russia-based analytics firm ICORating for failure to disclose payments for positive reviews to various projects. Today the SEC announced a $268,998 settlement with ICORating for projects rated from December 2017 through July 2018. According to the SEC, projects rated by ICORating during that time raised funds…

Donald Trump's odds of winning the U.S. presidential election have surged to a more than two-month high on the leading prediction market, Polymarket. Traders are giving the former president a 55.8% shot versus Vice President Kamala Harris' 43.8%, according to pricing on Polymarket, where more than $1.6 billion has been wagered on the November election.