Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Invest in Axoni’s $32 Million Funding Round

news Cryptocurrency custodian BitGo has announced the addition of Xapo‘s Pete Najarian to its executive team. Joining as the chief revenue officer, Najarian is tasked with global sales strategy. Najarian was senior vice president of institutions at bitcoin service provider Xapo before joining BitGo. Coinbase Custody announced its acquisition of Xapo’s institutional business last week.…

Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas called the updated S-1 a “good sign,” adding that a launch by the end of June was “a legit possibility.”On Tuesday, BlackRock became the largest publicly traded bitcoin fund, flipping Grayscale.BlackRock filed an amended S-1 form for its proposed spot ether (ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF) that revealed more information about the

The fourth Bitcoin halving in April reduced the new bitcoin issuance rate to 3.125 BTC every ten minutes, sparking significant interest and speculation. Since then, Bitcoin has been down from its highs, with some investors concerned that the days of higher BTC prices are in the distant future.We believe March’s new high (above $70,000) was

opinion Asheesh Birla is senior vice president of product at Ripple. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  Industries across the board – from cable companies to grocery stores – are desperately trying to hold on to their most prized possession: the bundle. The conventional wisdom goes “if you control access and…

In a world where tokenization becomes mainstream, with a wide variety of assets digitally represented on blockchains, these tokenized assets will replace money for everyday payments. That’s the intriguing argument recently made on Forbes by David Birch, a veteran British expert on digital identity and money.Marcelo M. Prates, a CoinDesk columnist, is a central bank

MoneyTap, a consumer-focused blockchain money transfer app built by SBI Holdings and Ripple, has now gone live. Announced by Ripple in a tweet Thursday, the remittance app is the product of SBI Ripple Asia and several participating banks. A new website for the product has also been launched indicating that the app is able to make bank-to-bank…

Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Jocelyn Yang is a markets reporter at CoinDesk. She is a recent graduate of Emerson College's journalism program. Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at…

Layer-1 blockchain Sui announced the release of DeepBook, a decentralized central limit order book (CLOB) that supports applications built on the network and allows traders to set a specific price for an asset in the same way as on centralized exchanges.The order book is designed to extend the liquidity of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols that…

Dec 24, 2020 at 3:49 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 24, 2020 at 4:10 p.m. UTCJapan Gearing Up to Launch Its Own Digital Currency: ReportJapan is gearing up to launch a digital currency in both the public and private sectors as it trails China, which is in the trial stage of launching its own. According to the…