Goldman Sachs Is Reportedly Weighing a Crypto Custody Service

markets That bitcoin (BTC) may be closing on a long-term bottom is generally accepted by now. After all, the leading cryptocurrency by market value has dropped by close to 70 percent over the last 13 months. The challenge now is to pick up early signs of a long-term bearish-to-bullish trend change, which may be possible…

news An app that puts a cryptocurrency wallet inside your Telegram account is making it easier to buy coins with U.S. dollars. Button Wallet launched in late 2018 as a messenger-based platform for sending payments, a la Venmo. Currently integrated with Telegram, the company tells CoinDesk it has 100,000 users with 2,000 actively using the…

Thursday could be a pivotal day for political prediction markets, a former niche industry that's seen explosive growth in this U.S. election year. At 10:30 a.m. Eastern time (14:30 UTC), Judge Jia M. Cobb of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will hear arguments over an emergency motion by the U.S. Commodity

Dec 20, 2019 at 19:00 UTCUpdated Dec 20, 2019 at 19:24 UTCThis post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Michael J. Casey is CoinDesk’s chief content officer. The views expressed here are his own.Our social media-constrained attention…

Frax Finance partners with Noble to bring FRAX and sFRAX tokens from Ethereum to the Cosmos ecosystem.Noble is a Cosmos application-specific blockchain designed to issue native digital assets to Cosmos.01:15New Cryptocurrencies Getting Created at Slowest Pace in Three Years: CertiK Data30:00Alex Tapscott: Web3 as Internet's Next Frontier08:40Citi Developing Token Services for Institutional Clients08:37Interlay Launches New

Jan 8, 2021 at 9:05 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 8, 2021 at 9:06 p.m. UTCThe Smart Way to Talk About DeFi’s $22BDecentralized finance (DeFi), the sector of crypto that drove all the excitement this summer, isn’t quite back to its old energy, but the lull is over.“Raw DeFi numbers are at all-time highs, and they’re not…

NEWS Bitcoin dropped below $5,000 for the first time in over 13 months on Monday. CoinDesk price data reveals the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization fell to $4,981 shortly after 16:30 UTC on Monday, signifying a dollar-decline of more than $500 for the day when the move occurred. That’s the lowest figure since Oct.…

Developer teams behind the Tezos blockchain unveiled "Tezos X," a set of technological upgrades they say could bring a "huge boost in performance, composability and interoperability." The roadmap, setting out a development plan for the next two years, calls for splitting off transaction execution into a separate "canonical rollup" that would support "atomic transactions across