The World Bank Is About to Settle a Blockchain Bond Worth $73 Million

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news The Takeaway: Kik claims the SEC took executives’ comments out of context in a suit alleging the startup’s 2017 token sale violated securities laws. In a new filing, Kik – which raised $100 million from the sale – also said it has been looking at cryptocurrency since 2012, and did not use it as a…

markets View Extremely overbought conditions and other factors seem to have stalled bitcoin’s promising price rally. Acceptance below $3,912 would validate signs of indecision on the weekly chart (doji candle) and open the doors for a deeper drop to $4,625 (200-day moving average). A break above last week’s high of $5,347 would invalidate the weekly chart…

news The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have launched a crypto token called “Learning Coin” to better understand how blockchain technology works. The two institutions said that the coin would have no monetary value and would not be made openly available, the Financial Times reported Saturday. To support the token, the IMF and the…

Bitcoin tumbled over 7% in the worst daily drawdown since August as crypto markets cool off.Cryptocurrency prices may rally to new highs into the year-end as the pullback flushed out excess leverage and reset the market, LMAX market strategists said.Bitcoin (BTC) over the past roughly 24 hours has suffered its steepest daily drawdown in almost

Jul 13, 2020 at 16:00 UTCBitcoin News Roundup for July 13, 2020With BTC mining difficulty reaching a new record high, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with your bitcoin news roundup! For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS. This episode is…

Trading volume across crypto derivatives listed on the Panama-based Deribit exchange remained brisk last month even as the global activity cooled.Deribit's derivatives market volume rose to $42 billion in August, a 17% increase versus July, bucking the global downtrend that saw worldwide derivatives volumes decline 12.1% to around $1.6 trillion, the exchange said in the

NEWS Oct 2, 2018 at 16:30 UTC  |  Updated  Oct 2, 2018 at 16:30 UTC Coinbase's leadership expansion continued Tuesday as it added Charles Schwab advisor Chris Dodds to its board of directors and tapped former Instinet CEO Jonathan Kellner to be its new managing director of the Institutional Coverage Group. In one blog post, Coinbase…

The Ethereum blockchains's biggest upgrade since early 2023 went live on the second of three test networks, bringing the much-anticipated "Dencun" project and its "proto-danksharding" feature a step closer to reality.Proto-danksharding is designed to reduce the cost of transactions for layer-2 blockchains as well as make data availability cheaper, through the introduction of a new