No, Royal Bank of Canada Isn’t Opening a Crypto Exchange

news A primary challenger to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is looking to change the way the federal government regulates the blockchain industry, in addition to raising $1 million in cryptocurrency donations. 2020 congressional candidate hopeful Agatha Bacelar (D) is looking to unseat Pelosi in California’s 12th district, according to her campaign…

A new report from Outlier Ventures provides a map of blockchain development activity. Ethereum, Cosmos and Bitcoin lead the pack.Feb 2, 2021 at 5:08 p.m. UTCBlockchain Bites: IBM Blockchain Bleeds, Exchange Tokens Pump, ETH Hits New HighHappy Groundhog Day. Bitcoin is ticking up, though still rangebound. XRP continues to bleed after a semi-successful orchestrated pump.…

Mar 18, 2020 at 05:00 UTCCaitlin Long speaks at Invest 2018. (Image via CoinDesk archives)Caitlin Long’s Wyoming Crypto Bank Announces C-Suite, Including Bitcoin Core DevOne of the first prospective crypto banks in the United States is hiring its C-suite.Avanti Financial Group, the first firm to announce its application to be a special purpose depository institution…

feature Blockchain analytics startup Flipside Crypto is bringing crypto asset letter grades to a slew of online publishers. The Fundamental Crypto Asset Score (FCAS) metric – which evaluates factors such as developer activity and a broad set of transaction data – was recently added to CoinMarketCap, along with publishers such as MarketWatch, TheStreet and Stocktwits.…

Jan 11, 2020 at 22:36 UTCCES visitors check out IoTeX's camera and Pundi X's phone in the Innovation Awards section. (Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk)LAS VEGAS – In tech there's an old adage: "hardware as hard." It's much easier to prototype and test a product when a mistake can be fixed by deleting and…

The president of El Salvador took to the X platform early Monday morning to note his country's bitcoin (BTC) investment was now profitable by more than $3 million following the crypto's rally to the $42,000 area over the weekend."We have no intention of selling; that has never been our objective," he added. "We are fully

news Schnorr signatures, a code change likely to be one of the biggest coming upgrades to bitcoin, have now gone from a theoretical idea to real code courtesy of technology startup Blockstream. Announced Monday, Blockstream has added a technology known as “MuSig” to its test cryptographic library, making it possible for developers to tinker with…

Does crypto finance Hamas and other terrorists?In the last few weeks, we’ve heard a lot of back-and-forth on this question without ever really getting a definite conclusion.This is an excerpt from The Node newsletter, a daily roundup of the most pivotal crypto news on CoinDesk and beyond. You can subscribe to get the full newsletter here.It all

Social network Discord is considering linking to Ethereum, Discord CEO and founder Jason Citron hinted in a tweet early on Tuesday.Citron posted a screenshot of what appears to be Discord settings that allow users to connect to Ethereum, saying “probably nothing.” The screenshot also shows the option to connect using Ethereum wallet MetaMask or chain-agnostic…