Tezos ICO Class Action Looms After Motion to Dismiss Denied

Elizabeth Napolitano is a news reporter at CoinDesk. Smart-contract registry Cookbook has raised $2 million to supercharge its efforts to support developers’ Web3 projects, according to a Thursday press release.The funding round included participation from MaC Venture Capital, Tagus Capital, Superscrypt and Alchemy. It will support Cookbook’s mission to streamline developers’ work to build out…

Jul 23, 2020 at 17:44 UTCArca CEO Rayne Steinberg (CoinDesk archives)Arca’s Flagship Crypto Hedge Fund is Up 77% in 2020Arca Capital Management’s flagship hedge fund – the Arca Digital Assets Fund – is up 76.74% in 2020, even as some cryptocurrency-focused hedge funds appear to be floundering and still others are folding due to lackluster…

Apr 29, 2020 at 14:15 UTCUpdated Apr 29, 2020 at 14:17 UTCTwo-thirds of Europeans surveyed think cryptocurrency is here for the long haul, according to bitcoin exchange bitFlyer.Released Wednesday, the second annual Crypto-Confidence Index poll conducted by the European arm of the exchange, bitFlyer Europe, found 66% of respondents believe cryptocurrencies will continue to exist…

Consensus 2023, the longest-running, yearly gathering of crypto leaders and communities from around the world got underway in Austin, Texas. CoinDesk TV was live on the ground with guests including Grayscale Investments CEO Michael Sonnenshein, Animoca Brands Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Yat Siu, Crypto.com Head of Derivatives North America Travis McGhee, and Hike Founder and…

Aug 25, 2020 at 08:30 UTCSydney, Australia (Taras Vyshnya/Shutterstock) After a dramatic arrest, an Australian serial conman has been extradited to New South Wales to face fraud charges involving over $1 million in bitcoin. A Tuesday report by The Sydney Morning Herald said Peter Foster had been escorted by detectives to Sydney, NSW, from Queensland…

Efforts to scale ethereum, the world's second-largest blockchain, are growing more varied as one much-anticipated solution encounters pitfalls amid its continued development. At the forefront of this transition has been plasma, a concept widely heralded as ethereum's best bet for short-term scaling. Already, researchers behind the tech have built five distinct versions of the protocol –…

Blockchain governance refers to the coordination mechanisms that allow blockchain stakeholders to make legitimate decisions. It is traditionally split up into two broad areas: on-chain governance and off-chain governance. In the context of Ethereum, on-chain governance relates to the Ethereum protocol. The protocol roughly encompasses the original white paper by Vitalik Buterin, the more technical

Krisztian Sandor is a reporter on the U.S. markets team focusing on stablecoins and institutional investment. He holds BTC and ETH.Beleaguered cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network staked some $75 million of ether (ETH) last week via Figment, an institutional-grade staking service, blockchain data shows.According to data by crypto intelligence firm Arkham Intelligence, Celsius transferred some 40,928…

Monday's rumor-led pop in BTC showed there is plenty of dry powder waiting to cheer SEC's potential ETF approval.Bullish sentiment has returned to the options market since the mistaken report.Monday's false report that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had approved BlackRock's spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) saw the cryptocurrency spike 10% to