The SEC Will Decide on 9 Bitcoin ETFs in the Next 2 Months

Solana (SOL) co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and his layer 1 network remained in the conversation in 2023 despite long odds and plenty of doubters. While Solana hasn't yet realized its vision of becoming the "Nasdaq on the blockchain," its strong community of developers has largely refused to quit: only a handful of teams moved to other

news It’s unrealistic and bad for the crypto industry to expect exchanges to send know-your-customer (KYC) information to recipient platforms with every transaction. That’s the gist of a public comment letter filed this week by blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, in response to a draft recommendation by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental organization dedicated…

Mar 31, 2020 at 18:25 UTC(Photo by Brad Keoun for CoinDesk)As economists scramble to assess the devastating impact of the coronavirus, they’re homing in on an unexpected hero that’s mitigating the damage in the U.S.: remote working. With offices across the country closed and people stuck in their homes, many professional workers have accomplished a not-seamless…

news Bakkt may not be able to launch its planned bitcoin futures exchange this month as planned, but that isn’t stopping the company from developing its projects. CEO Kelly Loeffler announced Monday that the New York Stock Exchange–backed startup was acquiring “certain assets” belonging to Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG), an independent futures commission merchant. RCG had…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Nick Baker is CoinDesk's deputy editor-in-chief. He owns small amounts of BTC and ETH.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Gemini, the U.S.-based crypto exchange, revealed Friday that it plans to open…

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) will apply partial restrictions to payments to cryptocurrency exchanges as a means of protecting customers from scams.The Australian bank announced on Thursday that it will decline "certain payments" to crypto exchanges or hold them for a period of 24 hours, a time period which it said could vary.The bank also plans to…

Korea's Jeju island is eyeing a plan to allow crypto projects to conduct initial coin offerings in the self-governing province despite a domestic ban.

From Aug. 18, 2008 to Oct. 31 of the same year, Satoshi Nakamoto must have had a hectic few months. That summer day, Nakamoto had registered the bitcoin.org domain name, indicating perhaps the first time the pseudonymous cryptography expert realized he may be onto something. By Halloween Day, the day the Bitcoin white paper was

May 28, 2020 at 11:47 UTCUS marine (Credit: Shutterstock/Getmilitaryphotos)First Mover: Chainlink ‘Marines’ Are HODLing and Here’s Why You Should CareBitcoin is so speculative and volatile that it doesn’t deserve to be considered an asset class, according to Goldman Sachs. Diving deeper into the realm of the more than 5,000 cryptocurrencies in existence, things get even more speculative –…