Pantera Capital Raises $71 Million for Third Crypto Venture Fund

The four biggest agricultural corporations plan to utilize tech such as blockchain and AI to bring the global grain trade into the digital age. Archer Daniels Midland Company, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus announced in a joint press release Thursday that they are looking at ways to standardize and digitize international agricultural shipping transactions "for…

news A hands-on preview of Samsung’s just unveiled flagship phone, the Galaxy S10, reveals new details of the device’s upcoming crypto features. The first official specs of the phone were announced in the U.S. on Wednesday, but only brief mention was made of its ability to store cryptocurrency private keys. However, in a piece for…

news Holders of decentralized storage startup Storj Labs’ early SJCX token need to act soon to avoid losing their investments. The firm announced Tuesday that its long-running token conversion program – in which it swaps users’ SJCX tokens, built on the Counterparty blockchain, to the newer ethereum-based STORJ token – will end on Jan. 1, 2020.…

Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov, as well as two other employees, should give testimony in the SEC vs. Telegram case, a judge has ordered. According to a document signed by District Judge P. Kevin Castel at the New York Southern District Court on Monday, Durov’s deposition should take place on Jan. 7 or 8,…

Blockchain Bites: BitMEX Investigation, Trump's Diagnosis, Babel's Leaked AudioBitMEX is in hot water with the CFTC and DOJ. Thursday, a dual agency operation levied charges against the derivatives exchange and several employees for facilitating unregistered trading and violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Elsewhere, another European financial head has intimated the need for a “digital euro,” Atari’s cryptocurrency…

Dec 23, 2020 at 1:00 a.m. UTCCoinbase Awards Its First Round of Bitcoin Developer GrantsCoinbase has revealed the inaugural recipients of its Crypto Community Fund developer grants. First announced in October, the fund was established to support Bitcoin developers in their work on projects that support the cryptocurrency’s underlying technology.The first two developers, João Barbosa…

It was exciting enough for crypto observers when bitcoin (BTC) topped $31,000 on Monday.And then its price went straight up. Late in the day, bitcoin took out $32,000, then $33,000, then $34,000 and finally $35,000 in just a few minutes. Perpetual contracts listed on Binance's exchange almost topped $36,000.The original cryptocurrency was back at levels

Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk's advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers. With blockchain platforms being tested for various business processes, prospective enterprise users that are unwilling to…

The FTX estate was granted approval to sell its trust assets, including shares of Grayscale and Bitwise investment funds worth roughly $744 million, according to a New York bankruptcy court document filed on Friday."The debtors are authorized, but not directed, to execute sales of the trust assets, in their reasonable business judgment, in accordance with