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A major Chinese city is giving away 10 million yuan in the country’s central bank digital currency this weekend. Recipients can use their digital yuan at 3,389 stores next week. The city aims for the giveaway to boost ...

The promotion is part of China's efforts to try out out and stimulate usage of its new digital currency.

CoinDesk's Christine Kim spoke to colleagues Michael J. Casey and Aaron Stanley about the most compelling and under-discussed topics about Ethereum 2.0 headlining next week's conference.

Yearn.finance (YFI) price surged by 58% in the last few days as three key factors suggest investors expect further upside.

The California-based private American venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has published a documentary called “Crypto Startup School.” The documentary is different from other blockchain films, as the 30-minute ...

The speaker, though saying the boosted offer comes up short in several areas, didn't shut the door on a deal.

Dapper Labs has closed an $18 million token sale on the strength of its latest collectibles game, NBA Top Shot.

With a second stimulus check due, now is the time to start thinking of your financial future, with the opportunity to buy bitcoin at a time when many people are predicting its continued rise in its value. You may have al...

Between BitMEX action, the U.K.'s derivative ban and the new U.S. Department of Justice enforcement framework, regulations are coming for crypto.

DeFi tokens have been around for a few months now -- long enough to plot some recurring trends that show some clear patterns.

Gibraltar airport. More quality regulation, such as Gibraltar's updated guidance on crypto companies, is beneficial for those companies, end users, and the whole crypto space, leading to increased adoption, according to ...

This week in the Cryptosphere: Vitalik Buterin said that high Ethereum fees might be gone even before ETH 2.0, and DeFi darling yearn.finance crashed 60% from its ATH, while Virgin Galactic Chairman said BTC can't be cor...

In three years, a younger generation of banking customers won't do business with a traditional fiat bank unless it offers access to crypto.

Bitcoin price rallied to $11,491 after bulls managed to flip the $11K level from resistance to support.

Las Atlantis is a new ambitious project developed by Top One Partners, an affiliate program that develops and manages brands. Their casinos are popular around the world due to the crypto-friendly policies, which allow us...

There’s a new tokenized bitcoin project coming to the decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem that’s recently received $1.4 million from blockchain investors. The project called Boringdao, a decentralized bridge betwe...

The latest data from Santiment shows that the collective market capitalization of all defi-related assets dropped by 25.1% on October 7, while daily trading volumes went down 30.2%. The data also shows popular defi token...

Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings...