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news Grayscale Investments has tapped Coinbase Custody to serve as the new security provider for its digital asset holdings, the companies announced Friday. The custodian, which Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says already holds $1 billion in assets, will act as the custodian for Grayscale’s single-asset and diversified investment products. Grayscale claims to hold $2.7 billion in…

May 7, 2020 at 08:00 UTCUpdated May 7, 2020 at 08:06 UTCCrypto Firms Establish Messaging Standard to Deal With FATF Travel RuleA new messaging standard released today is designed to help cryptocurrency firms comply with anti-money laundering regulations from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).The standard, called IVMS101, defines a uniform model for data that…

What do you do with millions of dollars ROOK tokens destined to become valueless in just over two months? If you’re Polychain Capital you’ve got two options: dump them on the open market or deploy them via crypto’s savviest arbitrage trade, where they may well net you millions of dollars more.Polychain is preparing to forgo…

Unikrn, an e-sport betting firm that conducted an ICO last year, is now facing a class action suit that accuses it of violating US securities law.

As speculation swells to a fever pitch over the imminent approval of bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds (ETF) in the U.S., one clever jokester has apparently gone to the lengths of memorializing the hype into the world's largest blockchain.With analysts speculating that the approval could come as soon as Wednesday and that the vehicles theoretically could

Argentina, the nation which recently elected self-described "anarcho-capitalist" Javier Milei as president, has the largest purchases and holdings of stablecoins in Latin America over the past six months, according to a report by Mexican-founded crypto exchange Bitso.Dealing with a severe economic crisis and plunging peso, 60% of Argentine crypto purchases on Bitso were for dollar-based

news Schnorr signatures, a code change likely to be one of the biggest coming upgrades to bitcoin, have now gone from a theoretical idea to real code courtesy of technology startup Blockstream. Announced Monday, Blockstream has added a technology known as “MuSig” to its test cryptographic library, making it possible for developers to tinker with…

The U.K.'s FCA says it will prioritize trust over speed when it comes to crypto registrations.The industry have said the FCA takes too long to approve crypto applications. The regulator has only approved 45 firms in four years.The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) won't compromise a focus on trust just to more quickly register crypto

Astria, a blockchain project describing itself as the "first decentralized shared sequencing layer," has launched the main network for its alpha release. The project is among those aiming to decentralize blockchain "sequencers" – the component of a layer-2 network that compiles transactions happening on the secondary network, in order to record them on a main