Tron’s BitTorrent Acquisition Triggers String of Employee Exits

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesBinance.US CEO Brian Shroder left the crypto exchange and the company eliminated one-third of its workforce, according to a spokesperson. It's been a tough year for

markets View Bitcoin’s recovery from $9,049 to $10,000 lacks substance and may be short lived. Signs of bullish exhaustion near $10,000 have emerged on the 4-hour chart. A break below $9,580 would confirm the corrective bounce has ended and allow a drop to $9,000. Moving average (MA) studies and key indicators like the relative strength…

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Shaurya is the Deputy Managing Editor for the Data & Tokens team, focusing on decentralized finance, markets, on-chain data, and governance across all major and minor blockchains.Bitcoin Cash (BCH) prices jumped as much as 6% ahead of a mainnet upgrade that will allow developers to issue tokens atop the network, among other enhancements.The ‘hard fork’…

Since January, over $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin has been tokenized into ERC-20 tokens to use in the emerging decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem on Ethereum. These DeFi applications offer an increasingly large array of potential use cases for bitcoin investors looking for alternative ways to issue loans or make trades on new exchange platforms. Tokenizing bitcoin serves as a bridge…

news Stock exchange operator Nasdaq is adding indices for bitcoin and ethereum to its global data service later this month. The company announced Monday that it has partnered with New Zealand-based blockchain data and research firm Brave New Coin to offer information on the two new indices starting Feb. 25. The Bitcoin Liquid Index (BLX) and the…

Jan 15, 2020 at 14:10 UTCBinance’s Fiat-Gateway Partner Banxa Raises $2M in Series A RoundDigital banking infrastructure provider Banxa has raised $2 million in a Series A round. Led by blockchain investment firm NGC Ventures, the round also saw the ASX-listed Thorney Investment Group Australia participate, according to a press release on Wednesday.The firm offers…

Nobody knows why Sam Altman was forced out of OpenAI. But betters on decentralized prediction platform Polymarket are putting their money where their mouth is when they take a guess.Over the weekend, Altman, the Chief Executive of the multi-billion artificial intelligence startup behind ChatGPT, was forced out of his role because he "was not consistently

Jul 16, 2020 at 12:06 UTC(thatkasem14/Shutterstock)With bitcoin looking heavy this week, short-term sentiment in the options market has flipped bearish. The leading cryptocurrency by market value fell to $9,070 soon before press time, reversing the 2.5% rise to $9,450 seen last week, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index.Prices are now closing on the lower end…