Here’s the Bitcoin ETF Presentation Given to the SEC Last Week

Krisztian Sandor is a reporter on the U.S. markets team focusing on stablecoins and institutional investment. He holds BTC and ETH.Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance deployed its highly anticipated native stablecoin called crvUSD on the Ethereum mainnet Wednesday afternoon.Blockchain data on Etherscan shows the contract has minted a total of $20 million in crvUSD…

In Q4 2020, the company raised $3.3 billion across its cryptocurrency investment vehicles.Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk archives)Jan 17, 2021 at 8:11 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 17, 2021 at 8:40 p.m. UTCGrayscale Raises $700M+ in a Day, Its Largest Daily Asset Raise EverMichael Sonnenshein, CEO of digital asset manager Grayscale Investments, tweeted the firm raised more…

news Fans of the biggest Fortnite and Apex Legends streamers on Twitch can now place real bets on how well they play. Esports platform Unikrn is debuting a new product that lets fans wager crypto on Twitch and other gaming sites, in a bid to give users more content for gambling. The problem with running an esports…

news MEXICO CITY — If a startup hopes to release a token without embarrassing itself in the early days, there is one important thing it should do: hire a market maker. That was the message from a panel Monday at Stellar’s Meridian conference in Mexico City. “Market makers provide this initial step where you can…

news Mauritius will soon license digital asset custodians as part of its plan to create a fintech hub “in and for” Africa. In an announcement Friday, the island nation’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) said that, after publishing draft rules in a consultation paper in November 2018, the framework has now been finalized and will come into effect…

Both, crypto and AI, have seen remarkable progress in the past few years.Crypto celebrated successes like DeFi, and more recently DeSci.AI celebrated successes like AlphaFold2, and more recently ChatGPT.Back in 2018, Peter Thiel pointed to the tension between the decentralizing forces of crypto and the centralizing forces of AI, coining the term “Crypto is libertarian,…

news The Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland (FME) has approved Reykjavik-based Monerium as its first electronic money institution. The designation, announced Friday, means that Monerium has regulatory approval to provide fiat payment services on a blockchain and use it throughout the European Economic Area. Electronic money is a well-established regulatory framework in Europe that’s been…

Multi-billion dollar penalties levied by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) against crypto exchange Binance were "heightened" because of the regulator's prior public warnings for crypto firms to comply, Commissioner Kristin Johnson said during a Tuesday event hosted by the Financial Times.Johnson clarified that the agency took enforcement action against the world's largest crypto

Worldcoin (WLD), the identity protocol officially launched this week by OpenAI's Sam Altman, could distribute crypto more widely than bitcoin, said Jake Brukhman on CoinDesk TV on Thursday, founder and CEO of CoinFund, a venture capital firm backing the project."One of the core propositions of Worldcoin is to build a system that can create a…