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Jan 27, 2020 at 12:00 UTCUpdated Jan 27, 2020 at 12:04 UTCSome big names that may have invested in Telegram’s token sale are surfacing in court documents as the company fights a case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The list includes some prominent individuals as well as investment firms. One of them, a…

MicroStrategy (MSTR) executive chairman Michael Saylor began to sell $216 million worth of stock options of the company on Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The document shows that Saylor proposed the sale of 310,000 stock option awards granted in 2014, which will expire in April.Saylor said during Microstrategy's

Traders have locked in over $2 million in XRP's $1.10 call option listed on Deribit, the highest across all available maturities. The large open interest in the nascent XRP options market likely reflects ETF optimism. Deribit's nascent options market for XRP is experiencing a surge in activity, particularly in the $1.10 call option that represents

NEWS At 18:02 UTC, the bitcoin cash blockchain officially split in two. With one iteration of the bitcoin cash protocol called Bitcoin “Satoshi’s Vision” or Bitcoin SV directly opposing the upgrades introduced through another implementation called Bitcoin ABC, the blockchain forked into two distinct networks. And while a so-called “hash war” had been greatly anticipated,…

news Meet “Norman” – a new variant of monero-mining malware that employs crafty tricks to avoid being spotted. The malicious code was identified by researchers at data security firm Varonis when investigating a crypto-miner infestation at a “mid-size company.” “Almost every server and workstation was infected with malware. Most were generic variants of cryptominers. Some were…

Tokens built on the Solana blockchain are getting a bit more programmable, with their developers now able to implement rules around who can hold them and what they can do with them.The Solana Foundation, a key group in managing the Solana blockchain said Wednesday that its "token extensions" upgrade to Solana's SPL token standard is

CoinDesk Indices (CDI) presents its bi-weekly market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) and the broad CoinDesk Market Index (CMI).The CoinDesk 20 gained 2.7% over the past week, with 16 of the 20 cryptos in the gauge closing higher. This recovery comes after a tumultuous month

The estate of bankrupt crypto firm FTX has sued exchange platform Bybit to try and recover a total of $953 million transferred to the latter's investment arm, court filings from Friday show.Efforts so far to claw back what it says were "misappropriated funds" have included suing former FTX executives and even the parents of founder

Featured SpeakerYat SiuCo-Founder and Executive ChairmanAnimoca BrandsWhere is Web3 headed? Take a look to the future with this pioneering investor in the metaverse and NFTs.Featured SpeakerYat SiuCo-Founder and Executive ChairmanAnimoca BrandsWhere is Web3 headed? Take a look to the future with this pioneering investor in the metaverse and NFTs.A filing from the U.S. Office of…