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The startup provides smart contract infrastructure for the Cosmos ecosystem.

Most organizations the regulator mentions have little or no online presence and, with one exception, aren't working with any major crypto platforms.

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for June 21, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk's daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

A member of the eurozone is amending its constitution in order to guarantee citizens the right to cash payments. The move comes amid growing fears that a digital version of the common European currency may eventually bec...

The exchange's market depth has declined nearly 80% over the past month on regulatory woes.

The competition to launch a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the US has intensified, with Invesco and WisdomTree filing submissions with the Securities and Exchange Commission for their own Bitcoin ETFs. On Tue...

Transforming a 'smoldering heap of wreckage' can cost good money, Katherine Stadler said.

As a result, the SEC's regulatory scrutiny may be more limited in scope.

The cryptocurrency exchange backed by Charles Schwab, Citadel Securities, Fidelity Digital Assets, Paradigm, Sequoia Capital, and Virtu Financial has launched and completed a new funding round. The platform offers the tr...

Central banks, particularly those in emerging economies, are ramping up their gold reserves in preparation for a new monetary regime, signaling a potential loss of reserve currency status for the U.S. dollar, according t...

Last week, CoinDesk received documents in response to a New York state Freedom of Information Law request about the details of Tether's reserves. These documents were released two years after our original filing in 2021 ...

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While Raft is centered around its R stablecoin backed by Lido's stETH, the team has had ongoing conversations about introducing RAFT, an additional token intended to empower community members and help decentralize the pr...

Zora Network aims to make minting on its platform "faster, cheaper and more enjoyable," according to a press release.

With 13 million Ordinal inscriptions linked to the Bitcoin blockchain, enthusiasts have turned their attention to a distinct digital artifact subject known as “rare satoshis” or “satributes.” The latest trend inv...

Bitcoin's price surged to $31,000 as a handful of BTC spot ETF applications and Fed Chair Jerome Powell's views on stablecoins appear to have improved crypto investors' view of the market.

3AC co-founder Kyle Davies told CoinDesk that the new entity aims to provide support for projects that are building for a decentralized future, but skeptics have recalled the original firm's tainted past.

A government study conducted by the Research Office at Hong Kong's Legislative Council has suggested that the city should take cues from countries like Japan and Singapore in its efforts to develop and embrace Web3 techn...

In a surprising turn of events, Sky News reported the seizure of a staggering 21 million Bitcoins from Andrew Tate, with a total value of $400 million. This development has sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency comm...

Repurchase agreements will keep being part of the reserve fund, Circle's chief financial officer said Wednesday during a company call.

Web3 investments are being touted as the perfect hedge against disruption in the tech industry, according to Martin El-Khouri, a senior director at venture capital firm Bertelsmann Investments. Despite the regulatory cha...

Singapore's central bank has proposed a whitepaper on purpose-bound money (PBM), a protocol that will define benchmarks for the use of digital money including central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and stablecoins. ...