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news Tassat Derivatives has successfully acquired a swap execution facility (SEF) registration after securing regulator sign-off. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced Thursday that it had approved the transfer of a SEF registration from trueEX LLC to Tassat on Nov. 6, nearly four months after the two companies reached an “agreement in principle.”…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Brandy covers crypto-related venture capital deals for CoinDesk. Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Decentralized cloud database Tableland has raised an $8 million Series A led by crypto-focused investment firm CoinFund.Other…

D.A. Davidson, the Wall Street investment banking and research firm, launched research coverage of bitcoin mining companies Core Scientific, Marathon Digital, Riot Blockchain and Hut 8 Mining with buy ratings for all the stocks.D.A. Davidson analyst Christopher Brendler sees a “huge opportunity” for the domestic miners, after bitcoin’s sustained rally and China’s sweeping crypto bans.…

Ether, and crypto broadly, have posted gains of more than 10% since the start of the year, while NFT prices are trailing.Stakeholders and analysts say utility and technological development are needed to bring growthCrypto is inching toward bull-market territory, but non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have failed to benefit from the market euphoria.While ether (ETH) is up

Take a look at the frontpage of CoinDesk today and you could be forgiven for thinking our site is all about Bitcoin. Just look at the headlines: BTC is above $50k. Options traders are betting on $75,000. Bitcoin’s market cap is back above $1 trillion. Bitcoin ETFs have accumulated $11 billion since being approved in

May 29, 2020 at 14:47 UTCUpdated May 29, 2020 at 14:54 UTCCredit: Kon Karampelas/UnsplashIn Trump Versus Twitter, Decentralized Tech May WinU.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday, seeking to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 prevents social media companies from civil liability for the content posted on them. The…

news Members of the U.S. House of Representatives questioned Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN) director Kenneth Blanco about Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency Thursday. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO), Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN), Bill Foster (D-IL) and French Hill (R-AR) held a briefing with members of the House Financial Services Committee, discussing the Libra project with  Blanco, who…

Sep 22, 2020 at 13:12 UTCUpdated Sep 22, 2020 at 13:13 UTCU.S. election chaos in November might spill over into crypto markets. (Jose Guadalupe Posada/Metropolitan Museum of Art, modified by CoinDesk) First Mover: Bitcoin’s Latest Sell-Off Gets Crypto Traders Mulling Election ChaosIn seeking to explain Monday’s sell-off across traditional markets and cryptocurrencies, the digital-asset firm QCP Capital rattled off…

Mar 24, 2020 at 11:21 UTCBitcoin Marches on $7K as Traditional Markets Cheer Fed’s QE BazookaViewFederal Reserve's open-ended easing program is a long-run positive for bitcoin's price, according to analysts.With stocks flashing green and technical indicators pointing to a strengthening of upward momentum, bitcoin looks set to test resistance at $7,000.Monday's low of $5,686 is…