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Digital assets performed mixed, with BTC sinking 1.5% while Solana's SOL and XRP gaining most among crypto majors.Robinhood disclosed its crypto arm received warning from the SEC that could foreshadow enforcement action.An Elliot Wave technician sets a $92,000 price target for bitcoin's next cycle high.The crypto rally paused on Monday during U.S. trading hours with

Jul 13, 2020 at 16:00 UTCBitcoin News Roundup for July 13, 2020With BTC mining difficulty reaching a new record high, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with your bitcoin news roundup! For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS. This episode is…

Alexander Vinnik being escorted to the Supreme Court in Greece in 2017 (Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com)A Paris judge has officially ordered the trial of alleged BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik to begin. In a report from the Moscow Times on Monday citing AFP, Vinnik's lawyer and others said he will face charges of defrauding more than…

Polygon's native token POL surged 15% on Friday as crypto exchange giant Binance said it added spot and perpetual contracts trading with the token to its platforms, marking the completion of the token's upgrade and rebrand from the longstanding MATIC. POL jumped to nearly $0.45 from around $0.38 earlier today, hitting its highest price since

Yuga Labs confirmed that UV-A emitting lights installed in one corner of the event was "likely the cause" of a series of eye-related medical emergencies that took place at the company's Ape Fest event in Hong Kong over the weekend.Attendees of ApeFest reported blurred vision and burning eyes after attending the event last weekend. One

Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Sandali Handagama is a CoinDesk reporter with a focus on crypto regulation and policy. She does not own any crypto.Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market…

Traders have locked in over $2 million in XRP's $1.10 call option listed on Deribit, the highest across all available maturities. The large open interest in the nascent XRP options market likely reflects ETF optimism. Deribit's nascent options market for XRP is experiencing a surge in activity, particularly in the $1.10 call option that represents

Mar 27, 2020 at 09:00 UTCCoinbase CEO Brian Armstrong via CoinDeskCoinbase’s Retail Payments Wing Crosses $200M in TransactionsVirus or not, people are still paying for goods in bitcoin.That’s the verdict from new numbers out of Coinbase’s retailer payment portal Coinbase Commerce, which on Thursday passed a milestone in its two-year history: $200 million in total…

May 19, 2020 at 14:03 UTCUpdated May 19, 2020 at 14:30 UTCThe Switzerland-based entity managing the Facebook-led Libra project has added a former U.S. government official as its general counsel.Announced by the Libra Association Tuesday, Robert Werner joins the project with "a wealth of regulatory, financial crime compliance and enforcement experience" from his previous roles…