Ethereum Validator Entry Queue Signals Renewed Interest in Staking
The validator entry queue has jumped to 7,045, the highest since Oct. 6, according to data source ValidatorQueue.
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Australian Judge Hands Split Decision in Market’s Regulator vs Block Earner
An Australian court has given a split decision in a case brought by Australia's markets regulator against Sydney-based crypto start-up Block Earner.
New Zealand Central Banker Adrian Orr Says Stablecoins Aren’t Stable: Report
The country's Central Banker says fiat money is more credible than stablecoins because it has the power of government behind it.
Bitcoin Logs Biggest Weekly Gain Since October as S&P 500 Tops 5K
The S&P 500 look expensive relative to bonds, but that does not imply risk aversion or outflow of money from stocks and crypto and into Treasury notes.
Bitcoin ETFs Flows Could Propel BTC Prices to $112K This Year: CryptoQuant
Spot bitcoin ETFs have amassed more than 192,000 bitcoin in holdings, as of Friday, since their launch nearly a month ago.
Ripple-Owned Crypto Custody Firm Metaco's CEO and Head of Product Depart
Metaco CEO Adrien Treccani and Chief Product Officer Peter DeMeo have left the crypto custody firm that was acquired by Ripple last year.
Ethereum Has Gatekeepers (for Good Reason)
A new, non-standard token standard called ERC-404 circumvented the usual token approval process and is capitalizing on a term with an actual definition.
New York Expands Fraud Case Against Digital Currency Group to $3 Billion
New York Attorney General Letitia James has amplified its fraud case against Digital Currency Group (DCG), now saying the company is responsible for $3 billion in investor losses tied to the Gemini Earn product and to direct investments with…
Bitcoin Tops $47K as Spot Bitcoin ETFs Book One of Their Best Days
Spot bitcoin ETFs attracted Thursday their third-largest net inflows since debut, increasing their holdings by 9,260 BTC.
Vibe Check: Momentum Building: CoinDesk Indices' Todd Groth
Periodic observations and market musings from Todd Groth, Head of Research, CoinDesk Indices.
First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Seen Topping $50K This Weekend
The latest price moves in bitcoin [BTC] and crypto markets in context for Feb. 9, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
What Is ERC-404? The Experimental Standard Whose First Token Has Rocketed 12,000% in One Week
ERC-404 allows multiple wallets to directly own a single NFT, and, in the future, create a use case where that specific exposure can be tokenized and used to take out loans or stake holdings.
Crypto Stocks Rally Pre-Market as Bitcoin Tops $46K
Bitcoin climbed over $46,000 for the first time in nearly a month early Friday, extending its gain for the week to nearly 10%.
UK’s Planned Stablecoin Rules Need Reworking, Crypto Advocates Say
Crypto industry groups in the U.K. say local regulators’ proposals for supervising stablecoins need reworking.
Bitcoin Miner Shares Offer Good Entry Point Ahead of Halving Event: Bernstein
The cryptocurrency has performed well before the halving and is likely to sustain momentum for the rest of the year, leading to new highs in 2024, the report said.
DeFi Platform Pendle Nears $1B in Total Value Locked
Pendle crossed the $100 million TVL mark in mid-June 2023.
Bitcoin Crosses $46K as Year of 'Long' Begins, Easing ETF Selloff
Over the next few days, East Asia will celebrate the start of the year of the dragon, which is considered to be one of the luckiest and most prosperous animals in the Chinese Zodiac.
CoinDesk’s New Owner Bullish Replaces CEO in Restructuring
Sara Startoberdha succeeds Kevin Worth, who has led CoinDesk since 2017.
Ether’s Prometheum Test
The “only U.S.-registered crypto securities platform" is listing ETH in a bold test of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's thesis that most cryptocurrencies are securities.
Welcome to the ‘Bitcoin Era’ on Wall Street
With a roster of bitcoin ETFs already trading, companies will need to figure out how to differentiate their products.
Solana Gains More Than Bitcoin as Trader Speculates an 'Extreme Move' Is Ahead
The broader altcoin market also showed signs of rebounding from oversold levels, one analyst noted.
JPMorgan Survey Shows Over Half of Institutional Traders Don't Want Crypto Exposure
The bank’s survey of over 4,000 traders found that 78% of the participants do not plan to trade cryptocurrencies, while just 12% plan to do so in the next five years.
U.S. Senators Berate SEC's Gensler for Agency's 'Unethical' Handling of Crypto Case
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's admission that it misrepresented evidence in a lawsuit against the blockchain project DEBT Box casts doubt on its wider enforcement practices, several Republican senators argued in a letter to Chair…
Protocol Village: Web3 Security Firm FuzzLand Raises $3M Led by 1kx
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 8-14.
Bitcoin Mining and the Politicization of a Once Reputable Federal Agency
The Department of Energy's statistics wing is feigning an "emergency" to attack legitimate U.S. businesses and score political points, Texas Blockchain Council President Lee Bratcher and Chamber of Digital Commerce CEO Perianne Boring write.
Layer-2 Blockchain Developer StarkWare Plans ‘Cairo’ to Verify Layer-3s
Cairo, which the StarkWare and the Herodotus developer team worked on together, is a key piece of technology that verifies proofs and posts them back to the layer-2 blockchain, instead of Ethereum’s mainnet.
Polygon Releases 'Type 1 Prover,' Claiming Milestone Set by Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin
The announcement means that existing EVM chains or optimistic rollups can connect to the prover without modification, then plug into Polygon’s newly released Aggregation layer, providing access to "all of the liquidity and value on Ethereum…
Bitcoin ETFs (Ex-GBTC) Now Hold More BTC Than MicroStrategy
The recently launched spot bitcoin ETFs, excluding Grayscale's GBTC, added nearly another 5,000 tokens to their holdings yesterday, and now at more than 192,000 BTC, hold more of the crypto than MicroStrategy (MSTR), whose total stood at 190,000 as…
Crypto for Advisors: Bitcoin as a Building Block for Portfolios
A practical, unbiased, and proven approach could classify bitcoin as another building block in institutional investors' portfolios.
Bitcoin Could Hit $48K in Days, Propelled by Historic Chinese New Year Gains: 10X Research
Bitcoin targets $48,000 in the short term fueled by a strong historic track record around the Chinese New Year, 10X Research's Markus Thielen said.