TokenInsight: 2021Q1 Crypto Futures & Options Market

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team.The number of stablecoins, or dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies, held in addresses tied to centralized exchanges extended its decline to reach the lowest since May 2021 in a sign of increasing investor aversion to risk.As of Monday, the balance was 21.06 billion, according to Glassnode data. The blockchain…

news Japan’s top financial watchdog has granted a license to a cryptocurrency exchange being relaunched by e-commerce giant Rakuten. The country’s Financial Service Agency (FSA) announced the news Monday, stating that the new exchange, Rakuten Wallet, is now registered with the Kanto Local Financial Bureau as a virtual currency exchange service provider under the country’s…

There’s nothing quite like a political convention. The pageantry of patriotic songs and speeches. The cavalcade of speeches by party leaders. And, of course, the thousands of balloons dropping like snow on the newly nominated presidential candidate. Yet, for crypto, August’s Democratic National Convention was an especially auspicious one. Despite the open hostility of parts

Jul 23, 2020 at 16:00 UTCBinance has partnered with licensed German investment firm CM-Equity to offer crypto asset management and brokerage services in Germany and Europe. CM-Equity has a crypto custody license with Germany’s Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), allowing Binance, the largest crypto exchange by volume, to operate in the German market.Digital asset custodians in…

Prediction market Kalshi is once again being hamstrung by U.S. regulators. According to a closely watched decision, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will not let the licensed betting market offer users a chance to wager on the future makeup of the House of Representatives and Senate this election cycle (or any, for that

Dec 2, 2020 at 4:24 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 2, 2020 at 4:38 p.m. UTC$10.8M Stolen, Developers Implicated in Alleged Smart Contract ‘Rug Pull’Another decentralized finance (DeFi) project was rug-pulled Tuesday, with some $10.8 million in investor funds stolen due to a hidden backdoor in the project’s smart contracts.Compounder Finance – a self-described clone of Harvest…

Bringing bad actors to justice has been the single most important accomplishment in the world of crypto and blockchain in 2023. Go back in time to November 2022. At that time, as the largest fraud in the history of crypto was being exposed (well done CoinDesk!), many feared that those responsible would never be held

news Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), the standards body seeking a common approach for businesses using ethereum’s code, has released a third version of its client specification, as well as updates on privacy and performance. Announced Monday at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2019 conference, EEA released its Enterprise Ethereum Client Specification V3, which simplifies permissioning systems, inherent to…

news Those seeking employment in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry have reason to be positive, says employment search company Indeed. The number of bitcoin, blockchain and crypto-related employment ads in shares per million on the popular job listing site rose by 26 percent from 2018–2019, following a four-year trend of 1,457 percent growth in the…