Latest Ethereum Blocks Suggest Validators Are Reversing Censorship

news Overstock.com’s investment wing, Medici Ventures, has successfully purchased digital tokens representing 3.6 million shares from Chainstone Labs, a digital securities company. The shares represents Medicis’s 29.6 percent stake in the startup, worth $3.6 million. They mark Chainstone’s first step in venturing into the security token market, which itself is in the inception phase. Medici is…

Jan 11, 2021 at 1:25 p.m. UTCBitcoin’s Big Drop Again Coincides With Dollar Bounce in Forex MarketsBitcoin continues to trade in the opposite direction to the Dollar Index in a reflection of the cryptocurrency’s maturation as a macro asset like gold. The top cryptocurrency by market value slumped to $32,400 early on Monday, having set…

news Blockstack, one of the first blockchain startups to have raised money in a Reg A+ offering, has hired GSR Markets to trade its “stacks” (STX) token. According to an Oct. 24 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the blockchain startup will pay GSR for providing liquidity in markets outside of the…

Prices of meme coin bob (BOB) slid as much as 45% on Sunday as its popular automated Twitter bot was suspended after the social media giant's owner Elon Musk called the account a “scam."Twitter even suspended another automated bot called @AskTheWassie, a comic frog that operated similarly to @ExplainThisBob on Sunday.“Promotion of scams under the…

Non-fungible token (NFT) enthusiasts have faced existential angst in 2023. In September, researchers dappGambl said 95% of NFTs may now have practically no value.But, Pudgy Penguins, with 25-year-old entrepreneur Luca Schnetzler at the helm, has weathered the crypto winter and established itself as a beacon of hope for digital collectibles.This profile is part of CoinDesk's

feature The Takeaway: Telegram’s long-awaited blockchain, Telegram Open Network, is said to be scheduled to launch Oct. 31, but the yet-to-be-issued gram tokens are already trading in an unauthorized secondary market. Telegram has yet to publicly or formally acknowledge the project, but investors in last year’s $1.7 billion token offering, widely publicized in the press,…

The FTX bankruptcy checked off another major cash settlement, this time for more than $200 million from crypto exchange Bybit. The influx of cash will serve the already-approved FTX dispersal plan in which the recovery of as much as $16.3 billion is soon heading toward former customers and creditors. The costly meltdown of global exchange

The ongoing Hamas-Israel conflict and a significant ether (ETH) sale by the Ethereum Foundation weighed in on broader crypto markets as bulls saw over $100 million in futures positions evaporated and the market slid 2% on average.Bitcoin (BTC) showed signs of stability relative to other tokens, losing 1% in the past 24 hours and hovering

Jul 21, 2020 at 18:41 UTCRussia's parliament has finalized its second version of a draft bill on cryptocurrencies. (Shutterstock)Russia changed its draft bill regulating crypto and digital assets. You won’t go to jail for facilitating crypto deals in the country – at least, not just yet.   Previously, the country’s lawmakers introduced a version of the…