Kaspersky: Cryptocurrency Scammers Stole $2.3 Million in Q2

It seems iPhone users won't have access to the crypto collectible craze anytime soon. The news comes after forthcoming video game War Riders was featured on the Coinbase Wallet iOS app and then quickly withdrawn. In War Riders, players drive around an apocalyptic wasteland, building up armies of vehicles – vehicles represented by non-fungible tokens,…

news The merchant payments startup Flexa will soon allow any other app to run payments in crypto just like its own SPEDN app has since May. Staking with the company’s Flexacoin (FXC) will enable apps to trustlessly provide payments to merchants without any danger of malicious apps reversing a transaction after Flexa has transferred funds.…

Layer 2s, separate blockchains built on top of a layer 1 that help scale it and reduce transaction fees, have been a key trend in 2023. And this year Coinbase, hitherto a centralized exchange, created its own layer 2 called "Base."This profile is part of CoinDesk's Most Influential 2023. For the full list, click here.Click

Oct 29, 2020 at 10:55 UTCUpdated Oct 29, 2020 at 11:12 UTCVoyager CEO Steve Ehrlich (right) with Robert Dykes of Caspian at Consensus 2019.(CoinDesk archives)Publicly traded digital-asset brokerage Voyager Digital (VYGR/VYGVF) registered four-digit revenue growth in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020. In an announcement Thursday, the Canada-based firm said revenue rose to roughly $1.1…

markets View A weekly close (Sunday, UTC) below the 12-week exponential moving average (EMA), currently at $9,940, could yield a deeper drop to levels below $9,000. The EMA has served as strong support in the last six weeks. The slide below the 12-week EMA, if any, could recharge engines for a break above June’s high…

Oct 16, 2020 at 15:06 UTCPrices for TRUMP and BIDEN futures markets on FTXCryptocurrency traders are placing last-minute bets on the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, pushing volume on FTX’s prediction markets to record highs and drawing new users to the crypto derivatives exchange.In the first two weeks of October, monthly trading volume…

Ethereum art (CoinDesk archives)Ethereum miners earned over six times more in fees compared to those working on Bitcoin in September. Glassnode data shows Ethereum's total transaction fees stood at an all-time high of $166 million for the month – far more than the $26 million taken in Bitcoin fees.Ethereum fees long trailed those on Bitcoin,…

A year ago, market maker Flowdesk made a contrarian bet by expanding its U.S. presence during the chill of crypto winter. That bet paid off, as winter became spring then summer, and a favorable market environment and improving regulations means Flowdesk is well positioned in the country. 00:54 How Blackbird Brings Dining Experiences On-Chain 00:58

Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Prices: Crypto majors are beginning the trading day in the green as a short squeeze pushes up the price of bitcoin.Insights: Total value locked in smart contracts lending platform Aave's v3 platform has risen 15% in June, continuing its 2023 momentum.Crypto Rises as Asia OpensBitcoin and ether are beginning the Asia…