First Crypto Firm IPO on London Stock Exchange Raises $32.5 Million

According to a Goldman insider, the investment bank will leap into crypto custody soon.This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.Today on the Brief: Gary Gensler is officially Biden’s pick for SEC chairmanInvestors are betting against the U.S. dollarGrayscale has best day ever with $700 million in investmentEthereum reaches new all-time high Our main discussion: Goldman Sachs…

Jan 28, 2020 at 17:00 UTCBitcoin rallied to near $9,150 as stocks dropped over Coronavirus fears, plus IBM's new "Self-Aware Token" approach. For early access before our regular noon eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS.Today's roundup:Disclosure Read More The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is…

Base, the layer 2 blockchain backed by Coinbase (COIN), averaged a record high of 15.88 transactions per second (TPS) over the past 24-hours, beating Ethereum and rival layer 2 blockchains Arbitrum and Optimism, according to l2beat.The 15.88 TPS figure marks a 156% rise over the past weeks as investors flock to Base to gain access…

feature In a space infamous for promising radical transformation but delivering mostly prototypes so far, Roberto Mancone, we.trade’s chief operating officer, has a record of making good on his pledges. Early last year, he promised the trade finance blockchain platform would go live by mid-2018 – which it did, with a focus on trading between…

news A luxury residential project targeting the crypto rich may be in trouble. According to a report from The Times on Sunday, the Aston Plaza project in Dubai – launched in 2017 by high-profile U.K. entrepreneurs Baroness Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman – appears to have stalled, with its website still displaying the project as…

Interlay, a decentralized blockchain network, rolled out a new platform on Wednesday that it describes as a “one-stop-shop” for Bitcoin decentralized finance (DeFi).The platform features a decentralized exchange (DEX) and a lending protocol, both integrated with Interlay’s existing DeFi bridge – a system connecting multiple blockchains – that was launched last year and is powered…

Taproot Wizards, which capitalized on last year's frenzy in Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions to raise $7.5 million, is now moving forward with its first sale of a collection, Quantum Cats.The series includes 3,333 of the cats, designed to honor a Bitcoin improvement proposal known as OP_CAT, according to a press release.Ordinals inscriptions, sometimes known as "NFTs

Bitcoin fell below $6,000 on Tuesday, a decline that brings the price of the world's largest cryptocurrency to within 2 percent of its 2018 low.

The Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI) has launched a development "tournament" to explore how vehicles will communicate, co-operate and transact in the smart cities of the near-future. The 4-month MOBI Grand Challenge kicks off on October 12, with a public demonstration of winning technologies to be hosted by BMW Group in Munich, Germany on next…