The Creator of the Internet Signed Up for Blockstack – And ‘Shit Got Real’

Dec 20, 2019 at 15:30 UTCUpdated Dec 20, 2019 at 15:39 UTCJalak Jobanputra, founder of FuturePerfect Ventures, at Consensus 2018 in New York.This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Jalak Jobanputra is founder of FuturePerfect Ventures.A year…

The U.S. Senate is poised to take another crack at regulating the crypto industry with a new bill that would place stringent anti-money laundering (AML) requirements on decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols.The bipartisan bill, the Crypto-Asset National Security Enhancement Act of 2023, would require DeFi protocols to impose bank-like controls on their user base, according to…

Bitcoin temporarily surged to as much as $138,000 on crypto exchange Binance.US earlier today in a sudden price wick on the btc/tether trading pair, exchange data shows.Prices shot up to those levels for a few seconds at 6:50 a.m. UTC before immediately reverting to parity with other bitcoin spot markets. Other trading pairs for bitcoin…

Mar 10, 2020 at 15:00 UTCUpdated Mar 10, 2020 at 15:41 UTCRichard Craib, Numerai's founder, speaks in New York City, April 2019. (Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk)Numerai is opening its Erasure protocol to the world.Erasure is a smart contract on Ethereum for people to share information and to express confidence about that information by…

The race to launch a Bitcoin ETF reached a bureaucratic crescendo Friday as some of the biggest Wall Street firms finalized their offerings’ paperwork ahead of widely expected, possibly imminent, action from the SEC.Invesco, Fidelity and BlackRock, as well as crypto-focused firms Valkyrie and Bitwise, revealed key details including which companies they would partner with

An engaged NFT community that holds the original ‘doge’ meme is working with local governments to install an actual statue that pays homage to Kabuso, the dog that inspired the meme.The statue will be unveiled on Nov. 2 in Sakura, Japan, on Kabuso’s birthday in collaboration with the City of Sakura, community members told CoinDesk.

Sep 16, 2020 at 12:45 UTCBenoît Cœuré, head of the BIS Innovation Hub. (Horacio Villalobos/Corbis/Getty Images)The Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the international body nicknamed the “central bank for central banks,” is on the lookout for a blockchain engineer. In a job posting Tuesday, BIS said it is looking for a "DLT/Blockchain expert" to take…

Rapid gains in bitcoin (BTC) prices seemed to pause Wednesday morning as traders likely took profits on a week-long rally, bumping bitcoin prices as much as 25% on hopes of a spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) approval in the U.S.Major tokens showed mixed movement as Cardano’s ADA slipped 2%, while Solana’s SOL tokens added 3%, extending

NEWS Sep 3, 2018 at 06:00 UTC  |  Updated  Sep 3, 2018 at 07:14 UTC A Japanese city government has become one of the first in the country to have tested a blockchain-based system that lets residents cast votes to decide on city development programs. The government of Tsukuba, a city known for its role in…