Japanese Crypto Exchanges File to Form Self-Regulatory Organization

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesBitcoin (BTC) has outperformed other cryptocurrencies amid macroeconomic uncertainty, partially due to traders pricing a potential approval of spot-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to Coinbase Institutional.

Sep 23, 2020 at 14:48 UTCUpdated Sep 23, 2020 at 14:52 UTC(Zorro2212 / Wikimedia Commons)Uniswap’s week-old UNI token is the big winner in Wednesday trading with a rebounding price and a market cap swelling by over $100 million in the past 24 hours. Data from CoinGecko shows the price of the UNI token has increased…

Apr 27, 2020 at 12:38 UTCUpdated Apr 27, 2020 at 13:23 UTCBitcoin's rally is gathering pace with the mining reward halving now just 14 days away. The top cryptocurrency by market value rose to $7,800 early on Monday to hit its highest level since March 12 – dubbed "Black Thursday" – when prices fell from $7,950…

Mustafa Al-Bassam was a Ph.D. student in computer science in 2019 at University College London when he published a paper titled "LazyLedger."Not meant for a lazy reader, the paper went on to describe, in excruciatingly complex terms and Greek mathematical characters, what was then a radical rethinking of how blockchains could work: separating out the

news The agency that regulates and manages China’s foreign exchange reserves has developed a blockchain system aimed to address inefficiencies in cross-border trade finance. As reported by local financial news source CNStock, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) worked with the Hangzhou Blockchain Technology Research Institute to build the open blockchain platform, which uses multi-signature technology…

Dec 7, 2020 at 3:53 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 7, 2020 at 4:37 p.m. UTC(Denis Linine/Shutterstock)SIX Stock Exchange Joins Venture Opening Up Digital Assets to Swiss BanksSwiss stock exchange SIX has invested in Custodigit, an institutional-grade cryptocurrency custody firm founded by Swisscom and Sygnum in 2018.Announced Monday, the investment forms part of an agreement for a…

You may or may not agree whether Elon Musk has been “good” for Twitter (RIP), but you must admit he’s been great for decentralized social media. In the days, weeks and months following the billionaire’s forced acquisition of “X,” there was a mass exodus of “bird app” users. People were desperate, so desperate, in fact

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Margaux Nijkerk reports on blockchain protocols with a focus on the Ethereum ecosystem. A graduate of Johns Hopkins and Emory universities, she has a masters in International Affairs & Economics. She holds a very small amount of ETH and other…

Bitcoin will reach $40,000 – if not even $45,000 – by the year’s end, DeFi Research’s Markus Thielen said.Thielen explained that options market flows and dovish Fed expectations are likely to power the cryptocurrency higher into the year’s end.Bitcoin’s (BTC) bullish momentum will likely remain intact heading into the end of the year, lifting prices