The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has just issued a new BitLicense to the New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG), allowing it to offer…
Bitcoin (BTC) fell to its lowest price in over 12 months on Wednesday amid a broader cryptocurrency market sell-off. According to CoinDesk price data, as of press…
How do you measure a crypto asset? For years, the easy answer has been to look at its price. When we launched the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index…
Early trading indicates crypto investors may no longer believe Bitcoin ABC, today the dominant software used to run the bitcoin cash blockchain, will hold on to its…
Messenger app maker Kik is quitting ethereum for good as it continues to develop its cryptocurrency, dubbed kin. Launched on ethereum early in the ICO boom, Kik…
One of the bitcoin community’s most beloved veterans just got a promotion. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Casa has elevated Jameson Lopp to CTO eight months after he…
Singapore-based crypto exchange KuCoin has raised $20 million in Series A funding backed by IDG Capital, Matrix Partners and Neo Global Capital. KuCoin announced the funding Wednesday,…
Try as startups might, crypto mining hasn’t yet had an everyman device. Smart money, however, is betting that will change at the hands of a new company…
An official, verified Twitter account owned by Google has become the latest to be hacked to host a crypto “giveaway” scam. Twitter user @B_u_r_t_o_n spotted the promoted tweet on…
Bitcoin rewards platform Lolli has raised $2.25 million in seed funding from investors including Bain Capital Ventures and Digital Currency Group. Also participating were Version One, Forerunner Ventures, 3K…
More and more companies are opening up to the blockchain technology. In fact, let’s check this survey by Juniper Research. They asked employees of some big companies…
Around 16:40 UTC tomorrow, November 15, 2018, the Bitcoin Cash network is set to undergo another hard fork upgrade. But contention about this upgrade has left the…
“Go for the Jugular” is the advice George Soros gave to his team during his famous attack on the British pound for a profit of $1 billion…
Expectations for the ICO market remain far from outcomes, nevertheless the market shows stability and some optimistic signals. Disclaimer: This article does not contain investment advice or…
French stock market regulator AMF says France accounts for a minor part of the global ICO market, while the U.S. leads the industry. The Initial Coin Offering…
Forex exchange settlement giant CLS will launch its IBM blockchain-powered netting service within “a matter of days.” Forex exchange (FX) settlement giant CLS will launch its IBM…
Swiss stock exchange SIX, which is set to launch a blockchain-powered platform in mid-2019, believes digital exchanges will replace traditional ones in a decade. Digital exchanges based…
The CTO of IBM Blockchain for Financial Services has said that CBDCs can help mitigate the risks that contributed to the 2008 financial crash. Stanley Yong, global…
South Korean messaging giant Kakao Corp, together with stablecoin project Terra, will launch a blockchain-based payment system. Kakao Corp, a major Internet conglomerate and service provider for…
Tokyo police have arrested eight men suspected of involvement of a pyramid scheme, collecting about $68.4 million in cash and BTC. Tokyo police have arrested eight men…
