How Crypto Reacted to This Week’s SEC Bitcoin ETF Delay

While bullish on bitcoin's long-term prospects, an economist and investor heeds caution for more short-term price optimism.

An ongoing legal battle between XRP investors and payments startup Ripple is entering its next phase. Attorneys for Ripple Labs and its affiliated defendants filed to move a consolidated class-action lawsuit from its previous venue at the San Mateo Superior Court to the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, according to court documents published…

A number of regulators from across the globe are forming a new alliance to facilitate the development of fintech in cross-border solutions.

news Blockchain-based live streaming service DLive has seen a 67 percent growth in its user base since PewDiePie, one of the world’s most popular YouTubers by subscriber numbers, joined the platform in April. DLive now has more than 5 million monthly active users and over 70,000 streamers, Nikkei Asian Review reported Monday. The platform reportedly…

news Blockchain forensics firm CipherTrace has developed a mobile tool for flagging bitcoin and ethereum tokens with a criminal past. Announced today, CipherTrace Scout grants street-level investigators more freedom to identify, track and document illicit crypto transactions from the field, company representatives and law enforcement experts said. The software builds on a suite of investigatory…

Shiba inu (SHIB) tokens slumped some 9% in the past 24 hours as users widely reported bridging issues after the much-hyped Shibarium network went live late on Wednesday.Blockchain data shows transactions on the network were stalled for at least five hours as of writing time. Users had transferred 954 ether (ETH), worth $1.7 million at…

news Amid a sea of scorn, one U.S. Senator is praising Libra. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) wrote a letter to Libra Association member Anchorage, a South Dakota-based trust company, endorsing the Facebook-led project and citing it as an example of a technological advance he feels is needed to aid U.S. consumers. Rounds also pushed back…

Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He doesn’t own any crypto.Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash,…

Robinhood (Opture Design/Shutterstock)Exchange Outages Are Going Mainstream: What Robinhood Can Learn From CryptoBoth crypto exchanges and popular online trading platforms including Schwab, TD Ameritrade and Robinhood have a rising number of young investors who, working from home during the coronavirus pandemic, spend some of their work hours trading for their own personal accounts. However, these…