SEC Delays VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin ETF Decision to September

NEWS Oil industry giants Shell and BP are among a group of firms planning to launch a blockchain platform to automate post-trade processes in the energy industry by the end of 2018. VAKT Global, the consortium building the platform, revealed the news at a digital commodities summit hosted by S&P Global Platts on Monday. The effort…

A Swiss legal battle between former employees of ConsenSys AG and its founder, Joseph Lubin, has made its way to the U.S.The 27 former employees who joined the company in its early days claim they were deprived of their equity after Lubin, with the help of JPMorgan, executed a series of corporate maneuvers transferring core

A platform that lets users swap tokens for low fees in exchange for rewards, among other features, has attracted some $150 million just a day after going live – bumping Base blockchain’s DeFi ecosystem by 80% in terms of locked value.Aerodrome, a product by Velodrome in collaboration with Base developers, hopes to act as a

opinion Coleman Maher is the head of partnerships at Origin Protocol, a blockchain platform for peer-to-peer marketplaces. You can follow him on Twitter @colemansmaher. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review. Two popular refrains by crypto commentators in 2018 were “the herd is coming” and a call for “mainstream adoption.” Prognosticators…

Nov 28, 2019 at 13:20 UTCUpdated Nov 28, 2019 at 13:20 UTCWhat the Fed Reserve’s Balance Sheet Expansion Means for BitcoinThe U.S. Federal Reserve is again expanding its balance sheet and prominent experts believe that could bode well for bitcoin in the long run.  The U.S. central bank's balance sheet includes a large number of…

Token debuts at $1.66, $3 billion market cap.Heavy congestion on Solana-based decentralized exchange OpenBook causes downtime.A 6% share of the total supply was allocated to the airdrop.11:59Crypto Tax: Everything You Need to Know02:21Bitcoin Drops Below $66K; Sam Bankman-Fried Says He Feels Remorse01:01Bitcoin Cash Hit Highest Price Since November 202100:56DOGE May Become the 'Official Currency of

An HBO documentary coming out Tuesday has reopened speculation that my late friend Len Sassaman was Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin. The filmmaker claims to have confronted the person he believes is Satoshi face-to-face, which would make it unlikely Len, who committed suicide in 2011, is his suspect. Nevertheless, others have written convincingly

Ethereum, a paramount blockchain due to its programmability and sprawling ecosystem of layer-2 networks, is getting a new dimension: time. Smart Transactions (STXN), a new project from Vlad Zamfir, who pioneered Ethereum's proof-of-stake blockchain system, released on Wednesday a platform that will enable applications to execute transactions based on future events. 00:56 Len Sassaman-Themed Memecoins

Nov 26, 2020 at 2:53 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 26, 2020 at 3:27 p.m. UTCBitcoin prices over 24 hours(CoinDesk 20)3 Reasons Bitcoin Crashed by $3,000 – And Why It’s Still BullishBitcoin suffered a price crash earlier on Thursday, having missed record highs by a narrow margin earlier this week. The top cryptocurrency by market value fell…