Maker of Wasabi Bitcoin Wallet Valued at $7.5M in First Equity Round

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has won a legal battle against a New York resident and his company for running a Ponzi scheme centered around bitcoin. Between 2014 and early 2016, Gelfman Blueprint, Inc. (GBI) and its CEO Nicholas Gelfman ran a scheme wherein they successfully solicited $600,000 from 80 customers, claiming that customers would earn…

Indonesia picked former defense minister Prabowo Subianto and his pro-crypto running mate, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, as the country’s next president and vice president.The two won nearly 60% of votes across Indonesia and will be inaugurated in October.The win could mean continuing Indonesia’s crypto-friendly policies under Joko Widodo, Indonesia’s incumbent president and – controversially – Gibran’s

Silicon Valley was the second-highest ranked U.S. hub in CoinDesk's Crypto Hubs 2023. Several of the eight criteria were measured on a national basis, so all the U.S. hubs were hampered by a middling crypto regulatory score, a drivers criteria, which at 35% was the most heavily weighted overall. This poor performance was partially offset…

news Japanese startup Nayuta is releasing an in-progress lightning implementation with a compelling new focus: the internet of things (IoT). As revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Nayuta is publishing the first lightning implementation geared specifically toward IoT, or networks of connected devices that feed data to one another. The idea behind Nayuta’s release is that it…

Renzo has allocated 32% of the total tokens to the community.The protocol tweeted that the token was not yet available on decentralized exchanges, however Dextools data shows the token is being traded on Uniswap.50% of the tokens accumulated by users with more than 500,000 ezPoints are subject to a three-month vesting period.Liquid restaking protocol Renzo

Jun 5, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Jun 5, 2020 at 13:01 UTCNew York (credit: Shutterstock/jamse photographe)New York, French Finance Watchdogs Open Doors for Each Other’s Fintech StartupsThe New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and its French regulatory counterpart will work to “ease the entry” for fintech innovators into their respective markets. An agreement…

Oct. 16: ARPA Network's random number generator (RNG), Randcast, has gone live on Optimism, a layer-2 blockchain atop Ethereum. "Their aim is to foster a more secure, dynamic, and immersive experience in the world of on-chain games and autonomous worlds," according to a message from the team. "Random Number Generation (RNG) is vital to many

Bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) prices declined in the past 24 hours, despite several ether exchange-traded funds being granted approval to list in the U.S.The ether price, which was up more than 20% in the past week, fell 4% after the approval, which became a "sell the news" event.Traders say they expect a significant influx

NEWS Sep 14, 2018 at 06:15 UTC  |  Updated  Sep 14, 2018 at 07:27 UTC Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings is soon to launch a payments application for iOS and Android devices powered by Ripple's distributed ledger technology. Takashi Okita, chief executive of SBI Ripple Asia – a joint venture between SBI Holdings and the San…