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Sep 22, 2020 at 19:30 UTCCryptocurrency industry advocacy group the Blockchain Association bolstered its board Tuesday with members from 0x, the Stellar Development Foundation and Kraken. Decentralized finance and regulatory precedence are some hallmarks of the association's new board members. 0x powers a decentralized exchange, Stellar maintains the Stellar ecosystem and Kraken is a crypto…

Nov 16, 2020 at 1:34 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 16, 2020 at 1:40 p.m. UTCJay Clayton, SEC chairman(CoinDesk archives)SEC Chairman Jay Clayton Stepping Down at End of YearU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton will leave his role at the end of this year.Announced in a press release Monday, Clayton led the U.S. regulator…

Mar 25, 2020 at 09:00 UTCTeam image via CasperLabsCasperLabs Pivots Away From Ethereum to Fundraise With Its Own BlockchainSome crypto startups, like Solana and Dapper Labs, are eager to execute fundraising plans regardless of any coronavirus-induced downturn.Likewise, CasperLabs, the startup advised by Ethereum Foundation researcher Vlad Zamfir, is now partnering with the Singapore-registered exchange BitMax…

MARKETS With bitcoin prices dropping further early on Sunday, the cryptocurrency now looks to be heading for its worst weekly loss in over 5 years. At press time, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization is trading at $3,520 on Bitstamp, representing a 36 percent drop from Monday’s opening price of $5,553. Unless the bulls can…

The largest U.S. bank, JPMorgan, hasn’t slammed the door on crypto companies, but it’s being especially careful with any new customers, according to a person familiar with the situation. It won’t take on any full-on crypto businesses, but it’s still willing to extend basic banking services to a handful of companies that touch the industry,…

Ink Protocol announced Tuesday that its decentralized payments app, Ink Pay, is now available on Coinbase Wallet.

Kalshi, the U.S. prediction market platform that just won a lawsuit against its regulator, said its future depends on being able to list election betting contracts while there's still time before Americans cast their votes on Nov. 5. In a court filing Sunday, the New York-based company pushed back against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's

"Deutsche Bank share slide reignites worries among investors" – was the BBC headline when everything clicked. It added to the increasingly worrying set of events that have affected the global banking system over the past few weeks: another sign that we may be at the dawn of the Great Financial Crisis 2.0. Except this time…

Bitcoin rallied to an all-time high of around $66,000 on Wednesday, reversing a nearly 50% correction earlier this year. Traders remain optimistic and expect further upside across cryptocurrencies as the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (NYSE: BITO), the first U.S. bitcoin-linked exchange-traded fund, made its debut on Tuesday.At this point, “short-term corrections outweigh the positive expectations…