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Regardless of where you stand on Bitcoin, one thing is certain: Bitcoin is spurring innovation that will lift multiple industries out of their current status quo, not just the financial sector. From healthcare to energy, ancillary innovation and ingenuity coming from the bitcoin industry will reshape key pillars across society for the better.But the emissions…

Jul 15, 2020 at 20:56 UTCSwitzerland’s licensed crypto-first bank SEBA and Corda-based Digital Asset Shared Ledger (DASL) announced a new partnership on Wednesday letting the bank offer asset securitization services on Corda’s public network. In an emailed press release, SEBA said it is the first digital bank to offer clients the ability to issue and…

Crypto trading on the Deutsche Boerse Digital Exchange (DBDX) goes live.The regulated spot crypto trading platform is targeted at institutional clients.Crypto Finance will provide settlement and custody services.Deutsche Boerse, the operator of Germany’s largest stock exchange, has started a crypto spot trading platform for institutional clients, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.DBDX offers

Crypto trading platform Talos usually serves up liquidity from centralized exchanges. But its institutional clientele will soon also have access to trading through Uniswap, the market leader in decentralized finance (DeFi).It's the first time Talos is sourcing liquidity from a decentralized exchange and likewise the first enterprise API integration for Uniswap Labs, according to a

Dec 29, 2020 at 9:22 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 29, 2020 at 9:41 p.m. UTCPolkadot founder Gavin Wood (Christine Kim for CoinDesk)Polkadot Surges After Binance Home Page Listing, $10M EndorsementPrices for DOT, the native token of Polkadot network and cross-chain protocol for data and asset interoperability, have risen more than 40% in the last week after…

Cryptocurrency safekeeping firm Qredo has combined Circle’s popular USDC stablecoin with its non-custodial wallet offering.The stablecoin integration also removes the headache of meeting gas fees by allowing USDC to be the ultimate gas fee token on any blockchain, Qredo said on Tuesday.Seamless connection to USDC, the second largest of the USD-pegged stablecoins, is lifeblood to

As part of our special NFT series, we asked the artist P1A to make an image of another artist, Refik Anadol. Click here to view and bid on the NFT created by P1A. The auction will begin on Monday, 12/4 at 12p.m. ET and ends 24 hours after the first bid is placed. Holders of

WisdomTree, one of the ten issuers of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), expects its product to be more successful towards the second half of the year thanks to adoption by financial adviser platforms.Speaking during an interview with CoinDesk TV, WisdomTree’s (WETF) head of digital assets, Will Peck said that the fund manager’s WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund

Genopets, a Solana-based non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players are rewarded for the steps they take in real life, has raised an $8.3 million seed round, the company announced Monday.The round was led by Konvoy Ventures and Pantera Capital with investment from Alameda Research, Old Fashion Research, Solana Capital, Xoogler Ventures, Mechanism Capital and…