Swedish Bank Inks Deal to Offer Crypto Fund Trading

news The departure of Digital Asset Holdings CEO Blythe Masters isn’t slowing down the Australian Securities Exchange’s (ASX) plans to roll out a distributed ledger-based settlement system, according to the firm. Peter Hiom, deputy CEO of the ASX, told CoinDesk through a spokesperson that Masters’ departure would not impact its plans to roll out a…

Mar 10, 2020 at 11:39 UTCUpdated Mar 10, 2020 at 11:43 UTCBitcoin is witnessing a recovery rally alongside the traditional finance markets a day after slumping to two-month lows. The top cryptocurrency by market value is currently trading near $8,070, representing a 5 percent gain on lows near $7,640 registered on Friday, according to CoinDesk's…

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The Solana blockchain's red-hot meme coin factory Pump.Fun descended into chaos Thursday at the hands of an exploiter who compromised the tech central to its issuance of joke cryptocurrencies."We are aware that the bonding curve contracts have been compromised and are investigating the matter," the months-old project's Twitter account announced two hours into the chaos.

Binance.US continues to rely on a custody provider provided by the company’s international arm, in violation of a previous deal, the SEC has said.The crypto exchange says regulators assets are safe and that regulators are merely engaged on a “futile fishing expedition."Binance.US has been accused of not cooperating in a probe by the Securities and

GK8, which was acquired by Galaxy Digital just over a year ago, has entered the tokenization sector with a self-custody offering.The company offers a patented flavor of cold storage, a process of creating, signing and sending messages to the blockchain without ever being connected to the internet.The first client to use the Tokenization Wizard will

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)…

news A cryptocurrency exchange claiming to settle bitcoin futures contracts physically just landed $10 million in financing from Polychain Capital and Bitcoin.com chairman Roger Ver, among others. The exchange, CoinFlex, launched in February of this year and says it is the first exchange to close futures contracts in bitcoin as opposed to a cash settlement. Speaking…

Investment firm VanEck predicts Ethereum layer 2 networks to be valued at over $1 trillion by 2030 but remains “generally bearish” on the long-term prospects of several such networks.The firm evaluated 46 layer 2 networks across five key areas and predicted “thousands” of rollups to eventually emerge. Arbitrum is the most extensive ecosystem, with over