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CoinDesk Indices (CDI) presents its Chart Pack, a twice-weekly look back at the performance of individual names inside the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20), along with a breakdown of sector performance inside the broader CoinDesk Market Index (CMI).

The CD20 tracks the world’s largest and most-liquid cryptocurrencies inside an investable index, while the CMI includes five hundred cryptos broken down by seven sectors and more than two dozen subsectors.

Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation. He owns marginal amounts of bitcoin and ether.Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash,…

Bitcoin’s Lighting ‘Torch’ Reignites, Blazes Through 38 Countries in 3 Days

Jan 22, 2020 at 16:30 UTCUpdated Jan 22, 2020 at 17:08 UTCBitcoin’s Lighting ‘Torch’ Reignites, Blazes Through 38 Countries in 3 DaysBitcoin's lightning torch is back, and it's zipped through at least 38 countries already.The torch is a digital game first ignited in January 2019 by pseudonymous bitcoin enthusiast Hodlonaut, known for his Twitter avatar…

DeFi Lending Giant Sky Sets Vote to Offload Wrapped Bitcoin as Justin Sun Concerns Linger

Sky, the decentralized finance lender formerly known as MakerDAO, will vote on fully ditching wrapped bitcoin (wBTC) from its ecosystem, according to a Thursday governance post, potentially a major development in DeFi since the platform has $200 million of loans collateralized by the token. WBTC is a token that allows investors to use bitcoin (BTC)

Kill the BitLicense

On Monday, New York’s Attorney General Letitia James announced an order that two crypto lending platforms unregistered with the state cease operations in the state. The companies – their names redacted in a letter published by the James’ office – were ordered to cease all business activities in the state within 10 days.The announcement calls…

Many EU Crypto Entities May Not Know the Correct Deadline for Sustinability Disclosures Under MiCA: Risk Analyst

Crypto entities may have misinterpreted MiCa's deadline to make sustainability disclosures, despite a clarification, according to Crypto Risk Metrics. Crypto's environmental impact, particularly through mining operations, has been a major concern surrounding the industry. Several crypto asset service providers (CASPS) in the European Union (EU) may not know the correct deadline to make sustainability disclosures

‘Expect Chaos’: Polkadot to Launch Experimental Kusama Network This Summer

news An experimental version of blockchain interoperability protocol Polkadot will go live later this summer. Led by Swiss nonprofit Web3 Foundation, the Polkadot team says the “early, unaudited and unrefined release of Polkadot” will be called Kusama. “Kusama will serve as a proving ground, allowing teams and developers to build and deploy a parachain or try…

SEC Intends to Amend Complaint Against Third Party Tokens (Like SOL) in Binance Case

The SEC intends to amend its complaint against Binance, including with respect to the 'Third Party Crypto Asset Securities," it said in a court filing. This likely means that the Judge won't have to decide whether 10 tokens such as Solana and Matic are unregistered securities or not. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

China’s Digital Fiat Wants to Compete With Bitcoin – But It’s Not a Crypto

feature The Takeaway: A review of over 50 patent applications submitted by the People’s Bank of China shows the design of its central bank digital currency will only resemble a cryptocurrency in limited ways. A senior official at the central bank said the effort will be helpful to “restrain public’s demands for crypto assets and…

CEO of DeFi Insurer Nexus Mutual Hacked for $8M in NXM Tokens

Dec 14, 2020 at 1:11 p.m. UTC(Dmytro Tyshchenko/Shutterstock)CEO of DeFi Insurer Nexus Mutual Hacked for $8M in NXM TokensThe CEO of decentralized finance (DeFi) insurer Nexus Mutual has lost the equivalent to over $8 million in a targeted attack, the firm disclosed Monday. A total of 370,000 of the project’s native NXM tokens were drained…

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