US Border Officials to Test Blockchain for Certificate Tracking

On a seven-day basis, bitcoin ETPs have seen 25,675 BTC ($1.74 billion) in net inflows, the biggest since July. Since Oct. 14, bitcoin ETFs have seen approximately $1.9 billion (21,450 BTC) in net inflows. On Oct. 17, ether saw $48.4 million in net inflows, which is the largest since Sept. 27 01:31 Bitcoin ETFs Are

Jul 21, 2020 at 14:13 UTCUpdated Jul 21, 2020 at 14:14 UTCSEC Commissioner Hester Pierce said she disagreed with the SEC's Telegram enforcement action from the start. (CoinDesk archives)SEC Commissioner Pierce Blasts Regulator’s Action Against TelegramU.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner (SEC) Hester Pierce on Tuesday criticized her colleagues’ decision to penalize Telegram’s ICO in remarks…

news One of the crypto industry’s biggest players is experimenting with ways to give its users more control of their personal information. Crypto exchange turned corporate unicorn Coinbase has a 17-person team currently exploring decentralized identity solutions. B Byrne, the product manager of Coinbase’s identity team, told CoinDesk he wants to “help people own more of…

Jan 9, 2021 at 6:40 p.m. UTCWrapped Bitcoin mints and burns in December Wrapped Bitcoin ‘Burns’ Outpaced Minting for the First Time in DecemberTraders are swapping their tokenized bitcoins for the real thing more than ever.BitGo saw a record 11,613 wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) swapped for real bitcoin (BTC) in December, with only 2,731 BTC exchanged…

"Our partnership with CoinFund creates such a foundational piece of infrastructure to crypto-asset markets," Alan Campbell, president of CoinDesk Indices, said in the press release. "Drawing on our experience managing the longest-running and largest benchmarked crypto indices globally, we're excited to launch CESR, a building block for crypto-based finance."

The BONK meme coin started as a jokey way to spread some wealth across Solana when FTX's late-2022 implosion left that crypto ecosystem down bad. One year later both are up big, making BONK into an unlikely something else: an investor in a venture fund.Bonk DAO – a 12-person council of Solana power brokers who

Cryptocurrency traders suffered $1 billion of losses in liquidations over the past 24 hours, according to Coinglass data, as digital-asset markets suffered one of their worst sell-offs of the year and bitcoin's price fell to a two-month low.Bitcoin, the largest and original cryptocurrency, tumbled 7% to about $26,900, after earlier in the day dropping close…

Feb 3, 2020 at 23:45 UTCUpdated Feb 4, 2020 at 00:49 UTCImage via CoinDesk Video.When Will We See the Digital Dollar? ‘Crypto Dad’ Says SoonFormer CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo aka "Crypto Dad" sees the current set of financial systems – the older systems associated with the pre-digital age – as hopelessly obsolete. He aims to…

FTX and Lightspeed Venture Partners have led a $21 million Series A funding round for gaming studio Faraway.Faraway said in a press release Thursday the other participants in the funding round included a16z, Sequoia Capital, Pantera Capital, Jump Capital and Solana. Faraway raised an $8 million seed round earlier this year, which was also led…