Prime Trust Enters Crypto Custody Race, Will Hold ‘Any’ Ethereum Token

May 19, 2020 at 12:58 UTCUpdated May 19, 2020 at 13:17 UTCArthur Hayes, CEO of BitMEX, at CoinDesk Consensus 2018 (Credit: ConiDesk archives)BitMEX Trading Engine Goes Offline, Company ‘Investigating’[UPDATED 13:06 UTC] The trading engine for BitMEX, formerly the largest bitcoin derivatives exchange measured by open interest, went down on Tuesday at 12:13 UTC, according to…

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Shiba Inu ecosystem developers are working on a service that can be used to link real-world assets to NFTs to help prove ownership as part of their Shibarium ecosystem rollout.Shibarium is a planned layer 2 blockchain focused on metaverse and non-fungible token (NFT) applications that will use shiba inu (SHIB), bone (BONE) and leash (LEASE)…

The U.S. employment market remained reasonably strong in June, with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting Friday the addition of 206,000 jobs, down from May's 218,000 (revised from an originally reported 272,000) but modestly topping economist estimates for 190,000. The unemployment rate in June rose to 4.1% versus 4.0% in May and forecasts for

Early bitcoin supporter and entrepreneur Charlie Shrem has won his first battle in an ongoing lawsuit filed against him by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and their firm, Winklevoss Capital Fund. According to a court document filed Thursday by federal Judge Jed Rakoff, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, a…

Bitcoin mining farm image via CoinDesk archivesBixin, one of the earliest bitcoin miner operators and wallet startups, is dedicating 6600 bitcoin, worth $66 million, to a new fund of funds.The company announced the fund of funds with its proprietary capital on Friday and said it aims to invest in global quantitative trading funds whose strategies…

news U.S. Representative Tom Emmer plans to reintroduce a bill that would benefit taxpayers who hold cryptocurrency resulting from blockchain network splits, or hard forks. Emmer revealed his intention to reintroduce the “Safe Harbor for Taxpayers with Forked Assets” bill, first announced in 2018, during a panel on the relationship between government and technologies at…

Sep 23, 2020 at 17:50 UTCUpdated Sep 23, 2020 at 18:23 UTC((Emile Perron/Unsplash))Blockchain Commons Internship Introduces New Developers to Open SourceThe Takeaway:For this year’s Blockchain Commons internship, Christopher Allen had an uncommon “problem”: too many quality applications to turn down.Instead, he expanded the program to accommodate 7 interns where he usually only accepts one.With the…

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…