Pantera Capital Raises $71 Million for Third Crypto Venture Fund

Crypto needs a killer app and a better sales pitch. "The average consumer just doesn't care about decentralization," Jeff Morris, Jr., an under-the-radar venture investor in the crypto space, told CoinDesk in a recent interview. Through the fund he created last year, Chapter One Ventures, Los Angeles-based Morris has quietly gotten in on some of…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) confirmed yesterday it has approved critical rule changes to allow for exchange-traded funds holding Ethereum’s native token, ETH. A lot of people were caught off guard, considering that just last week nearly everyone – from Bloomberg analysts to prediction markets – thought it was a lost cause.Note: The

Bettors are optimistic that the CrowdStrike outage will be resolved by Friday. It's also unlikely, according to a Polymarket contract, that the outage was caused by a hack A major global IT outage caused by an update from security software provider CrowdStrike will very likely be resolved by Friday night U.S. eastern time, if not

news Regulatory uncertainty ushered in by India’s central bank appears to have brought about the demise of another cryptocurrency exchange in the nation. In a Medium post published Thursday, the Koinex exchange says it’s been forced to shutter its services as a de facto ban on banking relationships for crypto firms – ordered by the Reserve…

Would-be bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuer Hashdex changed its paperwork Friday, naming BitGo as its bitcoin custodian and changing the name of its Bitcoin Futures ETF to the Hashdex Bitcoin ETF as it – and other companies – continue to hope for an approval for the U.S.'s first spot bitcoin ETF early in the new

A look at social media censorship discussion plus ethereum marketing and Brexit reactions with Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier.Much of the Crypto Twitter conversation this weekend was dominated by talk of Twitter’s suspension of ZeroHedge. @nlw explores why the specifics of the infraction or the quality of the publication aren’t the important part of the conversation,…

news A security researcher from MyCrypto.com, Harry Denley, has posted a detailed – and damning – analysis of paper wallet site WalletGenerator.net. The core of the analysis hinges on WalletGenerator’s original open-source code, available here. Until August 17, 2018 the online code matched the open-source code and the entire project generated wallets using a client-side…

Reports are that Chris Brummer – author of a volume on crypto assets and frequent speaker on digital currencies – will chair the CFTC.This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.On this edition of the Weekly Recap, NLW argues that while bitcoin’s price was the short-term story of the week, the medium-term story was all about the…

Bitcoin's volatility was on full display on Wednesday when its price fell from $6,300 to $6,100 before shooting up to $6,500 – all within an hour's time. As of press time, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was trading at $6,422, up 5 percent from the day's low of $6,117. The market did not waste…