The SEC Is Weighing a Bitcoin Futures ETF – Here’s What That Means

news IBM and two other organizations will marry blockchain and IoT to help manage groundwater usage in an “at-risk” Californian aquifer. Aimed to improve sustainable use of the key water resource, IBM announced Friday that California’s Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta will be tracked in “real-time” through a joint effort between the Freshwater Trust, a…

Dec 13, 2019 at 10:30 UTCUpdated Dec 13, 2019 at 10:24 UTCThe oldest ICOs have treasuries worth more than their tokens’ market capitalizations. Should those projects give some of that money back?That was the essential question raised by DigixDAO, which is offering its DGD token holders an all-or-nothing option: completely dissolve its treasury or keep…

Feb 14, 2020 at 15:33 UTCPolychain Capital founder Olaf Carlson-Wee speaks at Consensus 2019. (Photo via CoinDesk archives)Cryptocurrency investment firm Polychain Capital is raising $200 million for a second fund aimed at venture investing, a funding goal that would top its first venture fund by $25 million.According to an investor slide deck obtained by CoinDesk,…

CRV plunges as Curve founder faces multi-million dollar liquidation risk. Founder Micheal Egorov has taken a CRV-backed cumulative loan of nearly $100 million, data tracking firms said. Lending protocol Curve’s CRV token plunged 30% in early Asian trading hours as some loan positions supposedly tied to its founder, Michael Egorov, started to automatically liquidate, leading

Bitcoin ETFs bled $54.2 million on Thursday. Of 525 ETFs launched in 2024, 13 of the top 25 are either bitcoin or ether related. The U.S.-listed bitcoin (BTC) and ether {ETH}} spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are doing their part in contributing to the downward price pressures of crypto this week, with bitcoin down 6% and

Sep 9, 2020 at 14:12 UTCUpdated Sep 9, 2020 at 14:19 UTCA California judge has thrown out a $200 million damages claim against mobile operator AT&T from crypto investor Michael Terpin over a SIM-swap hack, but has allowed the rest of the case to proceed. Judge Otis Wright II of California's central district court granted…

news The Electric Coin Company (ECC) says it discovered a new way to scale blockchains with “recursive proof composition,” a proof to verify the entirety of a blockchain in one function. For the ECC and zcash, the new project, Halo, may hold the key to privacy at scale. A privacy coin based on zero-knowledge proofs, referred to…

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein resigned, will be replaced by Peter Mintzberg on Aug. 15."Michael guided the firm through exponential growth & oversaw its pivotal role in bringing spot bitcoin ETFs to market," Barry Silbert, CEO of parent company Digital Currency Group, wrote on X.12:43'The Voice' Makes Its Way to the Metaverse00:53Staking Has Been a Major

Lawrence Lewitinn is CoinDesk's managing editor of global capital markets.In one of the most iconic scenes in American TV history, Jan Brady complains to her parents about all the attention her sister receives. “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia … I’m tired of being in Marcia’s shadow all the time,” Jan whines to her mom on season 3,…