South Korea Budgets $880 Million for Tech Including Blockchain

Donald J. Trump has pledged to commute Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht’s life sentence to time served if he’s re-elected president.“If you vote for me, on Day 1, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht to a sentence of time served,” Trump said during his Saturday night remarks at the Libertarian National Convention in

Jul 30, 2020 at 05:25 UTCUpdated Jul 30, 2020 at 05:27 UTCWill Foxley, Hayden Adams, Rune Christensen and Robert Leshner discuss DeFi on CoinDesk Live. (Screenshot)CoinDesk Live Recap: Ethereum’s DeFi Luminaries Discuss What’s NextFor decentralized finance (DeFi) to make its mark, it must reach beyond the crypto bubble, said MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen. “Compared to…

Celestia Foundation, the team behind the Celestia blockchain network, said Monday that it has raised $100 in a fundraising round led by Bain Capital Crypto. The news comes as as Celestia's native token, TIA, is down 54% since the beginning of 2024, according to CoinMarketCap. Celestia had one of the hottest airdrops of 2023, issuing

Fnality, a fintech firm building tokenized versions of major currencies collateralized by cash held at central banks, has raised $95 million (£77.7m) in Series B funding led by Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas.DTCC, Euroclear, Nomura and WisdomTree participated in the round, which also saw further commitment from a number of banks that backed Fnality’s $63m

Bitcoin Web3 wallet Xverse has raised $5 million in a seed round led by noted industry investor Jump Crypto. The new funding will help the company accelerate development of advanced features related to decentralized finance (DeFi) and Stacks, Lightning and other Bitcoin scaling solutions.Hong Kong-based Xverse supports Ordinals, a method of generating non-fungible tokens (NFT)…

Bitmain co-founder Jihan Wu is stepping down from his role as part of his settlement with Micree Zhan.Bitmain co-founder Jihan Wu (CoinDesk archives)Jan 26, 2021 at 3:37 p.m. UTCBitmain Co-Founder’s Exit Resolves Years-Long Power Struggle as Mining Firm Preps IPOThe power struggle within Bitmian’s leadership has finally come to an end as co-founder Micree Zhan…

Ethereum developers met Tuesday to compare research on the eventual merge of Eth 1.x and Eth 2.0((IhorM/Shutterstock))Feb 3, 2021 at 12:33 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 3, 2021 at 1:09 p.m. UTCValid Points: CoinDesk’s Ethereum 2.0 Validator Is Officially StakedAfter two months of hard work, time and effort, we’re pleased to say the CoinDesk Ethereum 2.0 validator…

The Bahamian Sand Dollar can now be used for payments anywhere Mastercard is accepted.Feb 17, 2021 at 3:22 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 17, 2021 at 3:32 p.m. UTCMastercard Launches Prepaid Card for World’s First CBDC in BahamasPeople in the Bahamas now have the option of loading the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) onto a prepaid…