First Mover Asia: Traders Focused on Liquidity & FOMC as Asia Opens Its Business Day

Bavaria's data watchdog had not finished its privacy and security assessment of Worldcoin when the project launched, the head of the agency said.Michael Will, president of Bavaria's Data Protection Authority, the lead agency supervising the OpenAI-tied project in Europe, told CoinDesk on Monday that it was still reviewing the project when it went live on…

Sino Global Capital’s Matthew Graham joins for a discussion of crypto, coronavirus and enterprise blockchain in China. For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, IHeartRadio or RSS.When everyone wrote their 2020 crypto prediction pieces, China featured…

Crypto infrastructure company Alchemy said Thursday it raised $250 million, padding an already hefty venture war chest for building out crypto’s Web3 stack.“We actually haven’t touched any of the money” from Alchemy’s $80 million Series B, announced in March, said co-founder Joe Lau, “because we’re profitable as a business.”Thursday’s Series C valued Alchemy, which provides…

Does your company do worst-case scenario planning? What will you do if the rule of law erodes and corruption accelerates? The year 2024 is set to be one of the biggest and most important election years in history. It comes at a time of global instability, where there is, once again, a war in Europe

Mar 12, 2020 at 16:05 UTCCleaner sweeping the floor after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929. Source: Wikimedia CommonsBitcoin (BTC) suffered its biggest drop in seven years, as fears over the spreading coronavirus triggered a new wave of selling in everything from stocks and junk bonds to cryptocurrencies. This came despite a new…

Nov 10, 2020 at 6:35 p.m. UTCVolume Surge Brings 25% Turnover to ‘CoinDesk 20’Goodbye, DAI and bitcoin sv. Hello, kyber and cosmos.A swelling in volume in the crypto markets over the third quarter has changed the list of noteworthy digital assets beyond bitcoin and ether that matter most to traders and investors. That change is…

Launched in 2017, Cardano is billed as a third-generation blockchain (following Bitcoin and Ethereum as the first and second generations, respectively) that aims to directly compete with Ethereum and other decentralized application platforms as a more scalable, secure and efficient alternative.Decentralized applications are similar to applications on a smartphone. However, the main difference is dapps…

Feb 25, 2020 at 18:05 UTCUpdated Feb 25, 2020 at 18:06 UTCThe proposed rule change would give Commerce Dept. statisticians a more precise look at the prevalence of international crypto transactions. (Image via Jer123 / Shutterstock)The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has proposed a rule change to a benchmark survey that would…

In February, the SEC proposed dramatic changes to a bedrock law governing the custody of assets. The original rule, Custody Rule 206(4)-2, was adopted by the SEC in 1962 which mainly focused on physical custody of client assets – stock and bond certificates – saying they were to be kept in a bank, segregated from…