Bitcoin Volatility Likely as Options Worth $4B Expire on Friday
Market makers selling the options may need to buy more bitcoin in the spot market to cover their positions if the cryptocurrency rises further.
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Euroclear May Launch Digital Bond Settlement Platform This Year, Staffer Says
The move follows interest in securities trading using central bank digital currencies.
Stuttgart Stock Exchange Unit Secures BaFin License for Crypto Custody
Among the institutions it expects to make use of the offering are banks, brokers, asset managers and family offices.
Axie Infinity’s Ronin Blockchain Overhauls Tech, Expands to New Game Studios a Year After $625M Hack
Ronin will transition to a delegated proof-of-stake consensus mechanism and expand beyond Axie Infinity’s IP.
Japan's Finance Ministry to Explore Digital Yen Feasibility: Report
The ministry plans to launch an expert panel next month to explore the feasibility of a central bank digital currency.
XRP Trading Volumes Surges to Billions of Dollars on South Korean Crypto Exchanges
XRP trading made up nearly 50% of all volumes on Korbit, a prominent local exchange.
Bitcoin Price Rally Stalls as Whales Take Profits: CryptoQuant
Holders are taking short-term profits at the widest margin in more than a year, CryptoQuant analysts said.
OKX Says It's Turning Over $157M in Frozen FTX and Alameda Assets
FTX bankruptcy lawyers say that $694 million in liquid assets have been identified before OKX’s announcement.
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Rises Above $28.3K Despite Binance Legal Woes
ALSO: Shaurya Malwa writes that a little-known Ethereum community is rallying behind the Ethereum Goerli test network in the hope that it can help find a way to keep it going. Bitcoin, ether and other cryptos spike.
Andy Warhol Artworks to Be Offered as Tokenized Investments on Ethereum
Four of Warhol's famous works were "partially acquired" from well-known art collectors, and each work will be available as shares in the form of security tokens.
USDC Outflows Surpass $10B as Tether’s Stablecoin Dominance Reaches 22-Month High
Rival stablecoin tether (USDT) has grown to its most dominant since May 2021, now representing 60% of all stablecoins in circulation.
Ethereum's Shanghai Is Nearing, but When Can I Withdraw My Staked ETH?
Even though the Ethereum blockchain’s Shanghai hard fork (also known as Shapella) will go live April 12, you might not receive your rewards immediately if you have staked ETH with a staking service or a staking pool.
Stargate Members Discuss Plans for $2M Worth of Arbitrum Tokens on Community Call
The distribution of more 1.6 million ARB tokens will deepen the connection between Arbitrum and Stargate.
Crypto Exchange Gemini Looking to Launch Overseas Derivatives Operation: The Information
Binance’s legal troubles and the collapse of FTX may have left an opening for others to grab market share in the crypto derivatives business.
Coinbase Aims to Stay in Canada; Binance Could Be Poised to Exit Amid Regulatory Shakeup
The moves come as the country tightens rules for cryptocurrency exchanges.
Crypto Exchange Trader Joe Booms on Arbitrum, Spurring JOE Token Rally
Trader Joe is seeing activity spike on its Arbitrum crypto trading venue.
That Binance Suit Sure Seems Bigger Than Just a CFTC Case
Between Coinbase, Binance, Justin Sun, Do Kwon and Custodia, there has been just so much news over the last week. And that’s largely just the U.S. But Binance is the most interesting, not only for what happened (the Commodity Futures Trading…
The Metaverse Is Facing a ‘Cooldown Moment’ Amid Crypto Winter
That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, Cathy Hackl, chief metaverse officer at Journey, said. There are still people building in the ecosystem.
Market Maker DWF Labs Emerges as Top Crypto Investor
Managing partner Andrei Grachev discussed the firm’s investment strategy – and continuing risks for the industry.
Coinbase Chief Legal Officer: There’s ‘A Lot to Unpack’ in CFTC’s Filing Against Binance
Paul Grewal says it’s clear the agency is undertaking a great effort to understand what is happening at the largest crypto exchange by trading volume.
Top U.S. Treasury Official Says Crypto Had No ‘Direct Role’ In Bank Failures
Nellie Liang, the U.S. Treasury Department's undersecretary for domestic finance, doesn’t believe that the digital assets sector should be blamed for the runs on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank that led to their quick demise earlier…
The Questions That Linger After Do Kwon’s Arrest
CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris suggests that the Terra founder's attempts to avoid prosecution may have added to his troubles.
Latin American E-Commerce Giant Mercado Libre Expands Crypto Trading to Chile
The company launched the service in partnership with Ripio, a regional crypto firm.
The Short-Sightedness of Run-Amok Regulators
Ric Edelman, founder of the Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals, talks about a key reason why crypto’s future looks bleaker: an apparent effort to cut it off from U.S. banks.
Cryptos Gained in Q1 Despite Weakened Asset Class Perceptions
Glenn Williams Jr. discusses the confounding first quarter, which delivered massive gains to crypto investors even as the industry’s prospects appeared to worsen.
Bitcoin Miner Stronghold Raises Year-End Hashrate Guidance to 4 EH/s
Fourth-quarter revenue of $23.4 million was driven mainly by selling energy to the power grid rather than crypto mining.
AI-Focused Crypto Protocol Fetch.ai Raises $40M to Deploy Decentralized Machine Learning
The $40 million funding marks yet another investment by market maker DWF Labs, its fifth this month.