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news Cryptocurrency custodian BitGo has announced the addition of Xapo‘s Pete Najarian to its executive team. Joining as the chief revenue officer, Najarian is tasked with global sales strategy. Najarian was senior vice president of institutions at bitcoin service provider Xapo before joining BitGo. Coinbase Custody announced its acquisition of Xapo’s institutional business last week.…

news Duke University is teaming up with blockchain startup Citizens Reserve on an educational initiative aimed to develop students’ interest in blockchain technology. Citizens Reserve, a firm led by a team of former Deloitte blockchain employees, told CoinDesk Friday that it will jointly create a new incubation lab on Duke campus for students to work…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has said it will review the disapproval orders for nine bitcoin ETFs issued on Wednesday.

May 13, 2020 at 16:04 UTCUpdated May 13, 2020 at 16:43 UTCPopular BTC Derivatives Product Goes Live on DeFi’s dYdXThe top bitcoin derivatives product is now available on decentralized finance (DeFi).Andreessen Horowitz-backed dYdX released its Bitcoin Perpetual Contract from private alpha on Wednesday, bringing the most liquid digital asset derivative to Ethereum’s burgeoning DeFi market…

news Crypto security company Curv has obtained up to $50 million of insurance coverage for its institutional customers from reinsurance giant Munich Re. The coverage, announced Friday, is an add-on to the Tel Aviv-based Curv’s Institutional Digital Asset Wallet Service, “Curv will have the financial capability to pay for losses of crypto assets,” the partners said…

Total amount stolen in 2023 dropped by 50% compared to the previous year. Off-chain hacks including private key theft are on the rise, accounting for 57.5% of the amount stolen in 2023. Halborn warns that 21% of hacked protocols used multi-sig wallets and that the majority of hacks occurred on protocols that were not audited.

The top Republican candidate dropped out of the U.S. House of Representatives speaker race, leaving Republicans in turmoil and crypto legislation in uncertainty.As long as the role goes unfilled, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry can't pay attention to crypto, because he was picked as acting speaker.Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are

Nov. 16: Nocturne, a protocol enabling on-chain private accounts, has announced the successful deployment of Nocturne v1 to Ethereum mainnet. According to the team: "This marks a significant milestone in the journey towards a more private and accessible Ethereum. For the first time, users will have a compatible and easy-to-use product resembling a private onchain

In the rapidly evolving world of digital assets, the need for a fair and supportive banking environment has never been more pressing. After a string of market failures, the digital asset industry has been impacted by regulatory overreach reminiscent of the “Operation Chokepoint,” where the Obama-era Department of Justice targeted banks suspected of working with