Waves and the Tricky Task of Being a Russian Crypto Brand

You know times are interesting in crypto when some of the most enthusiastic founders and developers are wholeheartedly agreeing with criticism. At EthCC, the community-led Ethereum conference held in Paris, France this year, I gave a speech titled “Crypto is a Theater Right Now,” breaking down the many ways decentralized finance and other crypto efforts…

Binance's former CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), cannot be allowed to leave the U.S. ahead of his February sentencing on one charge of violating the Bank Secrecy Act, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Wednesday.Zhao pleaded guilty and resigned from the crypto exchange he founded on Tuesday, alongside Binance pleading guilty to multiple criminal and

news The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is contracting Canadian enterprise blockchain firm Mavennet to build a cross-border oil tracking platform. Coming through DHS’s Science and Technology Directorate, and with initial funding from its Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP), the $182,700 contract will see Mavennet retrofit its existing oil tracking platforms for use by…

As decentralized finance, or DeFi, continues to evolve and mature, the concept of total value locked – a measure of how much money users have stashed in a given protocol – has also gained significant attention. Originally focused on digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, TVL has expanded to include tokenized real-world assets (RWA), providing a

Bitcoin gains in 2021 dropped below 1% as strong selling continues. Trading bitcoin carries potential for profit and risk.(PeopleImages/iStock/Getty Images Plus)Jan 22, 2021 at 12:53 a.m. UTCBitcoin Breaks Below $30K, Erasing Almost All of 2021’s GainsBitcoin dropped below $30,000, pushing this week’s losses briefly over 17% amid continued profit-taking. Per CoinDesk's prior reporting, the recent…

FTX and trading firm Alameda Research will pay $12.7 billion to creditors after the approval of a consent order by a New York judge, ending a lawsuit from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The order bans FTX and Alameda from trading digital assets and acting as intermediaries in the market, but does not include civil

Ethereum-focused blockchain project Kinto disclosed it has raised $5 million in fundraising rounds this year to develop a layer-2 network that's fully compliant with anti-money-laundering laws, aiming to connect financial institutions and real-world assets with decentralized finance (DeFi) rails.The project is built using the OP Stack, which is a set of software tools created by

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news In a dramatic bit of stagecraft, BitMEX has finally released the “tapes” from its so called Tangle In Taipei, a July 3 debate between CEO Arthur Hayes and NYU Professor and so-called Dr. Doom, Nouriel Roubini. It even comes with dramatic fight music. The debate was about security and scalability where Hayes calls for…