Visa R&D Arm Develops a Blockchain System That Could Replace Financial Data Aggregators

Chia Network joins the steady trend of crypto firms cutting staff, saying its loss of banking partner Credit Suisse caused a costly delay of its effort to list as a public company. The company said it got a new bank last week, but uncertainty remains about how long the Securities and Exchange Commission may take

Dec 10, 2020 at 5:53 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 10, 2020 at 5:54 p.m. UTC(Unknown artist/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)Blockchain Bites: Paxos’ Banking Play, France’s KYC Terreur, FinCEN’s Personal Data HoneypotU.S. lawmakers are asking the nation’s financial guardians to clarify custodianship questions. France is looking to eliminate anonymity in the crypto sector. And an exposé into…

Bitcoin approached $50,000 on Monday, but failed to break through that level, according to CoinDesk Indices data.Sell orders placed on Binance and Coinbase indicate profit-taking.Bitcoin (BTC) extended its rally Monday, attempting to break through the $50,000 price level for the first time in more than two years, but selling pressure on crypto exchanges capped prices.Spot

Cryptocurrency prices cooled off Friday afternoon after Thursday's major rally on the apparent court victory for Ripple Labs and its XRP token.Bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, fell below $30,000, down more than 5% from a high of about $31,800 at one point on Thursday.Ether (ETH) also sagged from its rousing Thursday to…

Institutional traders simply need better crypto tools. That's the driving idea behind a union between Kenetic Capital, a crypto hedge fund based in Singapore, and Tora, a trading systems firm that already supplies order execution, portfolio management, risk assessment and compliance services for well-established asset classes. Announced today, both companies are teaming up to create Caspian, a project…

Dec 2, 2019 at 16:58 UTCUpdated Dec 2, 2019 at 16:59 UTCWelcome to the CoinDesk Markets Daily Podcast, a 10-minute look at what's driving the crypto markets today. The podcast appears daily and we'd love you to subscribe with iTunes, Google Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app.Having trouble with the embedded player? You can download…

Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market value, hit $4,000 for the first time in more than two years on Friday.The cryptocurrency had been climbing over the past few months alongside bitcoin, which reached record highs March 5. The last time ether was this high was Dec. 28, 2021.Ether has outperformed bitcoin over the past

Inflows to Coinbase’s new Base blockchain were muted on the first day after its official launch, missing expectations among some crypto traders that massive amounts of capital would flow in.Just over $10 million was bridged, or transferred, to the new blockchain in the past 24 hours, according to data in a Dune Analytics dashboard, with…

opinion Massimo Morini is a veteran in investment banks and financial institutions including the World Bank. Some of his research on blockchain was reported here and here. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  The end of 2018 is not the end of a year. It is the end of a decade, a decade that changed the…