Fidelity Digital Assets Gets NY Trust Charter to Custody Bitcoin for Institutions

Bees at work(Shutterstock)HIVE Blockchain has reported its best-ever quarter, as the mining firm raked in record fees from the frenzied activity in decentralized finance (DeFi) over the summer.The Toronto-listed mining company released its unaudited results Thursday, saying it mined a total of 32,000 ether (ETH) and 121,000 ethereum classic (RTC) in the second fiscal quarter…

For all the breathless coverage of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) launching and the bitcoin futures ETFs before them, no one is talking about the elephant in the room.This feature is part of CoinDesk’s “Future of Bitcoin” package published to coincide with the fourth Bitcoin “halving” in April 2024. Ryan Gorman is the principal of

Aug 20, 2020 at 16:00 UTCSarawut Benchakul, Secretary-General of the Office of the Judiciary, unveiled the project Thursday. (Office of the Court of Justice)Thailand’s largest court system is developing a blockchain storage network that will move judicial information entirely online when it debuts in Thai Courts of Justice in 2021. Already in the midst of…

SOL tokens are up 15% in the past two weeks and are among the best-performing major tokens.Levered bullish bets make a bulk of futures open interest for SOL, data shows, but may create a long squeeze event.Bets on futures tracking Solana’s SOL have risen to a lifetime peak of $1.7 billion in the past week

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Crypto sleuthing firm Elliptic says one of the world's most prolific cybercriminals is going out on their own terms.Feb 12, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. UTCDarknet’s JokerStash Retiring After Making Over $1B Through Illicit TransactionsThe founder of “Joker’s Stash,” one of the largest underground marketplaces for stolen payment card data, is officially retiring after making a…

Ether (ETH), the second largest cryptocurrency by market value, has been largely locked in a narrow price range around $1,800 since mid-May and is unlikely to move much in the short term, market makers' positions in the options market indicate.That's because the market makers, the dealers tasked with providing liquidity to an exchange's order book…

Bitcoin (BTC) could witness a minor corrective rally if the bulls' persistent defense of key support leads to a break above the resistance at $6,400, technical charts indicate. The leading cryptocurrency suffered a downside break of the symmetrical triangle in the early U.S. session yesterday, signaling a revival of the sell-off from the recent highs…

NEWSINBRIEF The price of bitcoin fell below $4,000 for the first time today since September 27th of last year. At around 16:20 UTC Saturday, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization sank to an average price across exchanges of $3,970.43, a figure 7.5 percent lower than the day’s opening price of $4,298.83, according to Coindesk’s…