Prospective issuers of a spot ethereum {{ETH}} exchange-traded fund (ETF) were told by the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) on Monday that the funds can begin trading next Tuesday, a source told CoinDesk.
Galaxy is one of several investors who have accused Richard Kim of misappropriating at least $3.67 million of company funds belonging to Zero Edge, his crypto casino.
A piece of legislation with heavy implications for the digital assets sector made it through the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's funding package recently without most in the industry – and many in Congress – apparently aware of it, but industry insiders consider its chances for survival to be limited.
The move is not a widespread debanking of hedge-fund clients, but rather the offboarding of inactive accounts, one person said.
The agreement comes as Floki gears up to introduce new products in the coming months, including the Valhalla metaverse game on mainnet.
Aptos will be the first blockchain that uses the Move coding language to integrate Chainlink's services, according to the announcement at Consensus 2024 in Austin.
The move is part of Fordefi's plan to extend its wallet service mostly used by institutional investors to retail-facing trading platforms.
The offering will provide crypto trading firms, exchanges and brokers with access to 20 forex pairs.
Georgetown Law professor Christopher Brummer leads an annual event on emerging financial technology in Washington that became a top forum for crypto issues in recent years. Now he's joining the sector, founding Bluprynt to help the industry with its regulatory disclosures as rules begin to emerge around the world.
The aims to broaden access to the $1 trillion reinsurance industry, making it more efficient and transparent with blockchain technology.
Restaking has taken hold of the Ethereum ecosystem. With Jito and a handful of other companies building for Solana, can the trend spread?
Advocates for long-awaited U.S. stablecoin legislation tried to tie it onto an unrelated must-move reauthorization bill, but leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives are seeking to keep that effort clear of such attachments, according to a Democratic aide.
Rodrigo Seira has rejoined Cooley LLP, the law firm where he worked previously, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The startup is one of the first to build tokenized tech for Bitcoin's Runes era.
The two largest digital dollar providers have chosen different paths in dealing with a perceived lack of global clarity on stablecoin rules: Circle is looking to U.S. lawmakers to provide guidance, while Tether is taking a hands-on approach to tackling fraud and money laundering.
Christian Langalis, whose 2017 photo-bombing of Janet Yellen became a viral meme, will use the proceeds to fund his Bitcoin/Lightning/Urbit startup.
The proposed move would allow eligible users to acquire up to four times more tokens than the standard quota per wallet, among other benefits.
Globally, less than 30% of jurisdictions have started regulating the crypto sector as of June 2023, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) President T. Raja Kumar told CoinDesk in an interview from Singapore.
SWIFT payments and SEPA IBANs will be supported – allowing users to transact and transfer money globally.
“We've figured out a way to put AI on-chain,” lead developer punk3700 told CoinDesk in an X message.
The purchase will be done over a two-year period, developers told CoinDesk.
IOTA's recently-launched Ecosystem Foundation is making its first series of investments, committing $10 million to to early-stage startups focused on digital trade and tokenization of real world assets (RWAs).
Flare, which calls itself "the blockchain for data," gives developers access to decentralized data via its Oracle system..
Local courts may be facing political pressure regarding Kwon's extradition to the U.S. or South Korea, his lawyer Goran Rodic told CoinDesk.