Vermont Utility Customers to Trade Renewable Energy Credits on LO3 Blockchain

Feb 13, 2020 at 18:32 UTCXRP/USD spot market prices, Feb. 13, 2020. XRP, the native asset of San Francisco-based Ripple’s XRP Ledger, experienced a flash crash on Hong Kong-based derivatives exchange BitMEX on Thursday.At exactly 14:00 UTC, the price on the XRP/USD pair quickly plummeted from 33 cents to 13 cents, a 60 percent drop.…

A landmark judgment about whether the Ripple-linked XRP token is a security is unlikely to impact plans for the wind-up of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, the bankrupt crypto lender’s counsel told a New York court on Tuesday.Last week a court ruled XRP constituted a security when offered to institutional buyers like hedge funds – something…

While our attention was focused on exchange-traded funds earlier this month, federal regulators in the U.S. announced charges or sentences for various crypto parties.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions.Quiet monthThe narrativeRemember when it felt like an initial

Daniel AlegreCEOYuga LabsHear from Yuga Labs new CEO in his first public appearance since assuming the position.Daniel AlegreCEOYuga LabsHear from Yuga Labs new CEO in his first public appearance since assuming the position.Will Canny is CoinDesk's finance reporter.Daniel AlegreCEOYuga LabsHear from Yuga Labs new CEO in his first public appearance since assuming the position.Daniel AlegreCEOYuga…

Cryptocurrency mining equipment (Christos Palios)The leading organization supporting the Ethereum Classic network hopes to better safeguard against future 51% attacks by going after platforms that rent out hashing power. In a Medium post on Tuesday, Ethereum Classic Labs singled out crypto-mining marketplace NiceHash for allegedly facilitating multiple attacks against the network.The firm said it would…

Never mind bitcoin on the balance sheet, a subsidiary of Europe’s biggest telco is taking a stake in DeFi.Feb 10, 2021 at 9:57 a.m. UTCUpdated Feb 10, 2021 at 10:04 a.m. UTCChainlink Supporter Deutsche Telekom Has Quietly Started Staking on BlockchainsDeutsche Telekom AG, Europe’s largest telecommunications company by revenue, is now one of the main…

Aug 18, 2020 at 11:59 UTCElliptical shadows (Shutterstock)Elliptic has added Binance Chain and its native payments token BNB to its monitoring platform, becoming only the second blockchain analysis company to do so. Starting Tuesday, Elliptic’s automated compliance, wallet monitoring and transaction tracing tools can all tap into Binance Chain activity.Binance executives said they seek to…

The crypto economy never rests, seemingly jumping from one hype narrative to another in the form of inspired tokens that niche short-term traders can profit from.Nearly four hundred different GROK tokens have been released by anonymous developers over the weekend, running to a combined market capitalization of tens of millions of dollars, which has let

Mar 27, 2020 at 07:00 UTCHSBC Puts $10B of Private Placements on R3’s Corda BlockchainHSBC has put $10 billion of paper-based private placement records on R3’s Corda blockchain and plans to ramp up the project through this year and next.“We’re confident that we’ll be able to put significant additional volume and value of private placements…