MARKETS DAILY: Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 28, 2020

news Blockchain firm Fundament has landed German real estate giant Bauwens as a strategic investor with $7.35 billion of projects to jumpstart its asset tokenization business. Fundament CEO Thomas Ermel told CoinDesk that Bauwens acquired 15 percent stake of the firm in cash in September after beginning negotiations for a partnership in May. Founded in…

Jul 28, 2020 at 08:35 UTCUpdated Jul 28, 2020 at 08:36 UTCEthereum creator Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin at ETHDenver 2020. (CoinDesk video)The transition to Ethereum 2.0 and its proof-of-stake consensus mechanism is finally underway. Announced Monday, Ethereum developers have released a "validator launchpad" on the Medalla testnet to educate and prepare future validators as part…

The regulator's stance contrasts with that of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. (Shutterstock)Jan 13, 2021 at 9:56 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 13, 2021 at 10:24 p.m. UTCJapan’s FSA Says XRP Not a Security: ReportThe top securities watchdog in Japan told The Block Wednesday that it does not consider XRP to be a security, siding against…

BCH's post-halving slide of 15% might be a warning sign for bitcoin bulls.Bitcoin cash has been seen a proxy for the upcoming halving of rewards on the Bitcoin blockchain.Bitcoin's blockchain will halve rewards on April 20.Bitcoin's fourth mining reward halving, a programmed 50% reduction in the pace of supply expansion, is just eight days away.

Bitcoiners have struck a significant victory in their push to strike down the U.S. Department of Energy’s statistics unit’s “emergency” bitcoin mining order. According to court documents, the Energy Information Administration is dropping its mandatory survey sent to hundreds of miners in favor of the proper notice and comment period required by law. The EIA

Ether futures open interest on BitMEX has fallen by half since U.S. charges were announced last week. Investor interest in ether futures traded on BitMEX has declined sharply since the Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange was charged Thursday with illegally operating an unregistered derivatives-trading platform that accepted U.S. customers.At press time, ether futures contracts worth $63 million…

Over the course of nearly 30 hours of cross-examination, Craig Steven Wright, the Australian man who claims to be Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been raked through the coals. The self-described computer scientist, economist, cryptographer, patent writer, author, lawyer, pastor, master of martial arts and mathematician (in other words: fabulist) has been accused of

Coinbase has announced a new service aimed at improving access to cryptocurrency payments for e-commerce businesses.

Jan 21, 2020 at 12:45 UTCUpdated Jan 21, 2020 at 12:53 UTCSwiss parliament image via ShutterstockSwitzerland Softens Tone on Libra After Ex-President Says Project ‘Failed’The Swiss government has attempted to strike a more conciliatory tone on the Facebook-led Libra project, weeks after the country's now-departed president called the project a failure. A government memo, seen…