Satoshi Square: How Bitcoin Took Over a Park (And Then the World)

One of Asia’s first digital bonds has been piloted in Singapore – opening the door for more such issuances using distributed ledger technology (DLT). International bank HSBC, Singapore Exchange (SGX), and Singapore government-owned investment firm Temasek said Tuesday their pilot for the DLT-based bond – first mooted last November – had been successful. Per an…

The serial entrepreneur, payments veteran and pugnacious tweeter will focus on building Paxos' white-labeled stablecoin business.Feb 3, 2021 at 2:41 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 3, 2021 at 2:44 p.m. UTCThe Block Founder Mike Dudas Takes Stablecoin Role at PaxosMike Dudas, founder of cryptocurrency news site The Block and once one of the strongest personalities on Crypto…

Nov 5, 2020 at 21:24 UTCUpdated Nov 5, 2020 at 21:25 UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Surpasses $15.3K; Ether Up 210% in 2020Bitcoin is hitting fresh highs during a surge past $15,000 while investors may be overlooking the upside of ether in 2020.Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $15,087 as of 21:00 UTC (4 p.m.…

news 3Box, the latest startup to leave the Brooklyn-based incubator ConsenSys, just raised money to fuel a new identity tool for app developers. 3Box is developing a decentralized solution that people can use across both traditional and blockchain-based apps. The startup recently closed a $2.5 million seed round led by Placeholder Ventures, with investments from…

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Credit: Max Morse/Flickr)Blockchain Bites: ‘Bitcoin Billionaires’ and Buying a Coke With CryptoThe possibility of mass adoption, or at least mass awareness, of crypto was on the agenda today with the integration of a crypto payment option for vending machines in Australia and New Zealand and the announcement of a coming feature…

Token trading platform Templum Markets has launched a sale of a token allowing accredited investors to buy shares in a popular Colorado resort. 

ClearToken has raised $10M in seed investment from institutional investors including Nomura’s Laser Digital.The company plans to be fully regulated in the U.K. and has started the approval process.09:31New Foodie Show Experiments with Web302:11El Salvador Bags Major Bitcoin Gains; Hong Kong's Stablecoin Push01:05Current Bitcoin Bull Run Is Breeding Millionaire Whales Slower: Kaiko00:53What Is the Biggest

Ethena Labs raised $14 million including from PayPal Ventures, Franklin Templeton, joining earlier investors Dragonfly, Arthur Hayes' Maelstrom and several derivatives exchanges.The company opened public access to its ether-based, yield-bearing synthetic dollar USDe after pulling in over $220 million in deposits from early investors.While yield-bearing stablecoins earned a bad reputation after Terra-Luna's collapse, Ethena's founder

Token unlocks could add to selling pressure if demand does not keep up.Data shows that some $95 million of SAND is set to be unlocked on Wednesday.Tokens of key gaming and NFT projects Sandbox and ApeCoin could see short-term selling pressure as planned unlocks release a cumulative $125 million worth of the tokens in the