Former CFTC Chair Timothy Massad Among Witnesses for House Crypto Hearing

Institutions that use Fireblocks for crypto key management workflows will work seamlessly with M^0’s stablecoin-minting and validation software. The protocol aims to fill the gap between existing stablecoin systems, where all the yield goes to either the token issuers or the token holders. 00:54 How Blackbird Brings Dining Experiences On-Chain 18:43 How On-Chain Consumer Products

Harry Moseley image via CoinDesk videoZoom might not be a decentralized app but as the go-to video conferencing tool for crypto project communications, it is seen by many as an important enabler of the industry’s various decentralized communities. Harry Moseley, a technologist with an eclectic career who is now Zoom’s chief information officer, sat down…

Oct 23, 2020 at 11:31 UTCRipple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has given more insight on the company’s possible move away from the U.S., saying that the legal status of the XRP cryptocurrency is key.Talking to CNBC Friday, Garlinghouse said his blockchain payments infrastructure company could potentially move to London where XRP…

A legal fund for the defense of Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev has received more than $350K and public support from Edward Snowden, the former NSA whistleblower.Tornado Cash's Roman Storm and Roman Semenov face allegations of money laundering and sanctions violations in the U.S.Storm, a dual U.S. and Russian citizen, was arrested

A large bitcoin (BTC) investor sent 7,000 bitcoin – worth roughly $244 million – to crypto exchange Bitfinex late Thursday, potentially to realize profits from earlier purchases.Whales are crypto investors who control large amounts of digital assets. Their crypto purchases and sales may have a sizable impact on markets, thus crypto watchers closely follow their

news U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said his executive agency was in line with other financial ministries of the Group of Seven (G7) regarding Facebook’s leap into cryptocurrencies. “There was a clear agreement from all G7 finance ministers and central bank governors that Libra, in particular, raises some very significant concerns, and cryptocurrencies more broadly,”…

Apr 23, 2020 at 15:00 UTCUpdated Apr 23, 2020 at 15:31 UTCPhoto by Richard Ciraulo on UnsplashCoinDesk Live: How This ‘Legal Wrapper’ for DAOs Could Democratize Venture CapitalA limited liability autonomous organization (LAO) is the next chapter of capital formation, Aaron Wright and Priyanka Desai of OpenLaw explain.Sign up to join the next CoinDesk Live on Thursday,…

Jan 25, 2021 at 12:39 a.m. UTCUpdated Jan 25, 2021 at 1:08 a.m. UTCEthereum’s Ether Cryptocurrency Sets New All-Time Price High Above $1,450The price of ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain network, soared to record levels on Sunday.Prices hit $1,454.32 – topping the previous all-time high of $1,439.33 set only last week…

Instagram-famous artists Janky and Guggimon are bringing their tripped-out aesthetics to non-fungible tokens.Janky and Guggimon's first NFT offerings.(Superplastic)Feb 16, 2021 at 10:04 p.m. UTCCult Toy Brand Superplastic Launches NFT Collection on Nifty GatewayBasketball players, pop singers and now high-end vinyl toys – lots of different groups are trying out non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Ethereum as…