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news One year after its formation, the Association of Digital Asset Markets (ADAM) has drafted a code of conduct for the cryptocurrency market. The trade group has also recruited five more companies, bringing its total membership to 15. The new members are: custodians BitGo and Anchorage, trading firm and VC investor CMT Digital, lender BlockFi, and…

Pyth, an oracle service that provides low-latency pricing data to blockchains, distributed its new PYTH governance tokens to more than 90,000 crypto wallets in November. The token was introduced as a way to decentralize Pyth's governance process – a system that will allow token-holders to vote on how the platform evolves.As the result of a

A small crypto asset manager focused on environmental, social and governance investing (ESG), 7RCC, is the latest applicant to join the race for a spot-bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF), a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows.7RCC was founded in 2021 to provide access to crypto and blockchain-related assets for EGS-conscious investors. The

markets Bitcoin surged $1,000 in just 30 minutes during U.S. trading hours Thursday, a move that found the leading cryptocurrency rising from $9,335 to a high of $10,400, based on Bitstamp data. The sudden rally could be associated with the massive unwinding of short BTC/USD positions (profit taking) seen in 30 minutes to 15:00 UTC, as…

Over the weekend, Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested at a Paris airport and later charged by the Tribunal Judiciaire De Paris with enabling illegal transactions, distributing child abuse material, complicity in the drug trade, and failing to cooperate with law enforcement. This is clearly a big moment. Here is an enormously powerful social media

The tax charges brought by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) of Nigeria against Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla have been dropped, a family spokesperson said in an emailed statement on Friday.The FIRS agreed to revise the charges so that it serves only Binance, through its local representative. Gambaryan will no longer need

Jun 11, 2020 at 11:58 UTCUpdated Jun 11, 2020 at 11:59 UTCBitcoin remains stuck below $10,000 amid jitters in traditional markets over the pace of economic recovery. As of 11:45 UTC, the leading cryptocurrency is changing hands at around $9,780, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index.  While bitcoin’s price is down 1% on the day,…

Sep 11, 2020 at 15:05 UTCKris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com (Credit: Crypto.com)Payment card provider Crypto.com has launched a liquidity swap platform, soon after the Binance exchange unveiled a similar offering. Called DeFi Swap, it allows users to seamlessly exchange or "swap" tokens in hosted pools and offers yield farming incentives to liquidity providers: the same…

Custody tech provider METACO and forex trading platform Cobalt have teamed up in a bid to rewire the financial system to handle cryptocurrency.Feb 2, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. UTCThese Two Firms Want to Upgrade Crypto Infrastructure for Banks and ExchangesAnnounced Tuesday, METACO and Cobalt are launching a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that covers the full gamut…