Google Cloud to Help Accelerate Polygon’s Growth Via New Agreement

The Montenegrin High Court decided for a second time in December that extradition requests for Do Kwon held up.Kwon's told CoinDesk last month that his client would be appealing the High Court's decision.Former CFO at Terraform Han Chang-Joon was extradited to South Korea by Montenegrin authorities on Monday.Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has won a

David Z. Morris is CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist. He holds Bitcoin, Ethereum, and small amounts of other crypto assets.A new frenzy is sweeping cryptoland – so-called “BRC-20s” are fungible tokens deployed on the Bitcoin blockchain, and some are beginning to see major market activity. The proposed new standard was introduced in March by a coder…

news A Chinese espionage operator is attacking crypto firms during state-sponsored campaigns, according to a FireEye Threat Intelligence report published August 2. The intelligence company “assesses with high confidence” that APT41, a hacking collective, has moved on from financially motivated attacks of video game companies to working alongside the Chinese government. Reportedly, the hacker group…

Jan 31, 2020 at 15:56 UTCUpdated Jan 31, 2020 at 16:03 UTCMiner ETH balances versus price, Feb. 1, 2019 to Jan. 30, 2020. (Chart via Santiment)Ethereum Miners’ ETH Holdings Near Record HighsEthereum miners are hoarding ether tokens, and this could indicate high confidence in the project. The number of ether tokens held by all ETH mining pools…

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp is getting a new matching engine developed by Cinnober, a global provider of exchange and clearing technology whose clients are mostly traditional stock and commodity markets. Cinnober's TRADExpress Trading System will replace Bitstamp's in-house matching engine, the companies announced Monday. The new system will drastically increase the exchange's capacity to match orders, which is…

BlockFi will start interim crypto distributions through Coinbase this month. BlockFi filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the FTX collapse in November 2022. Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi will commence first interim crypto distributions through Coinbase (COIN) in July 2024, it announced on Thursday. BlockFi was the first victims of the contagion caused by crypto

opinion Eric Gravengaard is the co-founder of several digital currency businesses including Athena Bitcoin and Red Leaf Advisors. ——— I have spent much of my career in financial services working for Chicago’s proprietary trading firms which act as market makers on the derivatives exchanges. These firms are responsible for providing prices to the derivatives exchanges…

Rapper Iggy Azalea's MOTHER token hit another all-time high on Thursday, extending the gains for Solana's latest hot meme coin and inviting criticism of the highly risky, sometimes infamous subsector of celebrity cryptocurrencies.Just over a week after launch, the MOTHER token has reached a market cap of $200 million, minting millionaires among some iron-handed gamblers

A U.K.-government-backed technology working group wants firms to run tokenization projects in collaboration with their peers.The group's second report on the topic says funds should be able to hold tokenized assets as well as settle transfers on-chain.A technology working group backed by the U.K. government is urging firms to execute tokenization strategies in collaboration with