SEC Expands Inquiry Into Riot Blockchain, Filing Reveals

Ether price jumped 2% above $2,400 after Ark Invest/21Shares amended their spot Ethereum ETF paperwork.The updates bring the ETF more "in line" with spot bitcoin ETFs that regulators approved last month, said Bloomberg Intelligence's Eric Balchunas.Ethereum's native token ether (ETH) jumped above $2,400 Wednesday afternoon to a two-week high as asset managers Ark Invest and

Consensus Magazine's #StateofCrypto2023 week is sponsored by @Chainalysis.At the height of Sam Bankman-Fried’s influence and power, there was a mostly unspoken question as to how FTX could be spending so profligately on advertisements and investments. The exchange, often cited as the third largest by volume before its epic collapse, was suspected to be unprofitable when compared to competitors.

Jul 6, 2020 at 18:30 UTCUpdated Jul 6, 2020 at 19:24 UTCAdministrator Jovita Carranza took over the SBA this year. (Tia Dufour/White House/Small Business Administration)ConsenSys, Polychain, Tron, CipherTrace: Blockchain Startups Got $18M+ in US ‘PPP’ Bailout LoansMore than 40 companies in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry collected at least $18 million in payroll loans from…

news Shinhan Financial Investment will soon be offering peer-to-peer (P2P) stock lending via the blockchain. When the new service is introduced this year, individuals will be able to borrow and lend securities with other individuals directly, rather than going through an intermediary. The Economic News and other local Korean media reported the news. Securities lending and borrowing transactions…

This past year has been a testament to the blockchain space’s ability to recover from even the harshest external conditions. From the depths of the “crypto winter” at the beginning of the year, the overall market cap of the crypto space has grown by 90% to $1.69 trillion, with bitcoin more than doubling from its

Vitalik Buterin, Zooko Wilcox, Simon de la Rouviere, Santiago Siri – all are prominent leaders in the blockchain technology sector who regularly attend and speak at conferences around the world. In this way, the RadicalxChange Conference in Detroit this weekend might not have seemed different than the many crypto conferences globally, but if its lineup bore…

DePINs (decentralized physical infrastructure networks) are everywhere. Or, at least they are for those of us reading CoinDesk in July of 2024. As someone who’s been involved in the vertical since its inception back in 2019, I recognize that I might be more of an early adopter, more DePIN-fanatical than most. But as I sat

Nov 21, 2020 at 2:19 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 21, 2020 at 2:22 p.m. UTCXRP Rises More Than 30% as Altcoins Piggyback on Bitcoin’s WaveXRP has surged to 16-month highs, leading a pack of cryptocurrencies all benefiting from bitcoin’s rally toward historic levels. XRP, the native asset of the XRP ledger, developed by payment-focused blockchain firm Ripple…

Dec 31, 2020 at 9:09 p.m. UTCBitcoin, ether and gold in 2020.Market Wrap: Bitcoin Closes 2020 Near Record HighsThe Takeaway:Bitcoin nearly triples its price in 2020 and ends the year close to $29,000 but ether gained 450%. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $28,963 as of 21:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), gaining 1.5% over the previous 24…