US Government Grants $800K to Blockchain Researchers

Aug 12, 2020 at 19:30 UTC(Chris Liverani/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)Token Sales Are Back in 2020As the price of bitcoin rises, token sales have become trendy once more. “Ava, Dot,” tweeted ZenGo wallet CEO Ouriel Ohayon, “2017 is back. For better or worse.” Ava Labs, the startup founded by Cornell professor Emin Gün Sirer, raised roughly…

news The notorious cryptocurrency investment scheme OneCoin, widely claimed to be a fraud, is being sued by a former investor over her losses. The lawsuit, filed in New York Tuesday by law firm Silver Miller on behalf of the investor, Christine Grablis, alleges that OneCoin fraudulently promoted cryptocurrency investments and violated federal securities laws. Grablis complains…

Hong Kong was once a crypto hot spot, home to initial coin offerings and exchanges galore, before regulators began knocking on doors and talking about banning retail investment, which scared most industry participants away to other jurisdictions.Johnny Ng is working to bring them back, with inadvertent help from U.S. regulators.A member of the city’s Legislative…

Jul 13, 2020 at 11:13 UTCSingapore’s Central Bank Eyes Commercial Role for Its Blockchain Payments TechA blockchain project from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and state investor Temasek has completed its final development phase and is now being considered as the basis for commercial payments ventures. Singapore's central banking authority and Temasek said Monday…

An appeals court on Tuesday punted on former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's appeal to end his pre-trial detention on federal fraud charges, two weeks before the start of his trial.A panel of judges from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said they would take both sides' arguments "under advisement.The delay is the latest in

BCB Group's chief compliance officer is leaving the business. Her resignation is the latest in a series of senior management departures at the crypto payments firm. 02:24 U.S. Added 142K Jobs in August; UK Crypto Companies Struggle With Licensing 00:55 Pastel Network Co-Founder on 'Resurgence' in the Solana Ecosystem 00:43 Is the U.S. Election Impact

Singapore’s financial regulator has issued a nine-year prohibition order against the founders of Three Arrows Capital, which prohibits them from operating in the country’s regulated financial services industry.Su Zhu and Kyle Davies will be prohibited from performing any regulated activity and from taking part in the management of, acting as a director of, or becoming

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The eight recently launched spot ethereum (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted nearly $600 million worth of volume in the first half of their first day of availability, according to data from Bloomberg. The race is led by Grayscale’s Ethereum Trust (ETHE) which had seen $250 million of its shares traded by 12:30 pm ET. BlackRock’s