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Climate Finance Firm Solid World Opens Forward Carbon Liquidity Pools With Polygon

[May 18, 2023 10:02 AM] The pool will enable the purchase of mangrove-based carbon credits.

Galaxy Executed Its First OTC Options Trade as Demand for On-Chain Options Ramps Up

[May 18, 2023 9:49 AM] In 2022, “DeFi performed exceedingly well while CeFi and some traditional methodologies for transacting had some challenges,” Jason Urban, Galaxy’s global head of trading, told CoinDesk TV.

Hector Network Fight Centers on Efficacy of DAO Governance

[May 18, 2023 9:36 AM]

Expect Ripple Deal to Set Off Crypto Custodian M&A, Says Advisory Firm

[May 18, 2023 9:25 AM] Ripple purchased custodian Metaco for $250 million, and regulatory and market conditions could lead to further deals, says Architect Partners

Regulatory Battle: Grayscale Challenged by SEC’s Designation of Filecoin as Security

[May 18, 2023 8:30 AM] Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset manager by assets under management, made an announcement on May 17 regarding a comment received from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the SEC, the crypto asset…

ZK Startup Lagrange Labs Raises $4M to Build Secure DeFi Interoperability

[May 18, 2023 8:00 AM] The raise was led by investment firm 1kx and included contributions from Maven11, Lattice Fund, CMT Digital, Daedalus Angels.

Attendance at World's Largest Bitcoin Conference Down by Half as 'Crypto Winter' Drags On

[May 18, 2023 7:57 AM] Roughly 15,000 attendees are expected at the Bitcoin 2023 event, versus 35,000 last year – likely a result of the downturn known as “crypto winter.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. presidential candidate, is among scheduled speakers.

Litecoin Leaves Bitcoin and Ether Behind With Rally to One-Month High

[May 18, 2023 7:46 AM] Litecoin has chalked out a double-digit price rally to hit the highest since April 19.

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Rebounds Amid Optimism on Debt-Ceiling

[May 18, 2023 6:13 AM] The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for May 18, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Bitcoin Lightning Company Lightspark Introduces Lightspark Wallet SDK

[May 18, 2023 6:00 AM] Lightspark has announced the launch of the Lightspark Wallet SDK, a tool designed to enable businesses of all sizes the ability to offer their customers a Lightning wallet. According to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine, Lightspark aims to…

Coinbase Cloud Joins Chainlink as Node Operator to Bolster Security

[May 18, 2023 6:00 AM] Telecoms giants Swisscom, Deutsche Telekom and news provider Associated Press are also Chainlink node operators.

Borderless Capital Leads Wormhole-Powered $50M Cross-Chain Fund

[May 18, 2023 6:00 AM] Among the other investors are Jump Crypto, Arrington Capital, the Solana Foundation and Aptos Labs.

Ledger Continues to Defend Recovery System, Says It's Always 'Technically' Possible to Extract Users' Keys

[May 18, 2023 5:44 AM] "Technically speaking it is and always has been possible to write firmware that facilitates key extraction. You have always trusted Ledger not to deploy such firmware whether you knew it or not," Ledger said on Twitter.

ApeCoin DAO Approves Proposal to Boost Bored Ape NFTs, APE Ecosystem Growth

[May 18, 2023 5:08 AM] The Ape Accelerator will incubate and launch new projects that strengthen the Bored Ape Yacht Club and ApeCoin ecosystems.

Ripple Starts Platform for Central Banks to Issue Their CBDCs

[May 18, 2023 4:00 AM] The firm will also showcase a real estate tokenization product as part of Hong Kong Monetary Authority's e-HKD pilot.

G-7 Must Take Charge in Ending 'Lawless' Crypto Space, FATF Chief Says

[May 18, 2023 3:52 AM] President of the global financial crimes watchdog, T. Raja Kumar, urged G-7 leaders to "effectively" implement FATF's crypto anti-money laundering norms ahead of their meeting this weekend.

U.S. Bitcoin Corp to Host 150K Crypto Mining Rigs

[May 18, 2023 3:44 AM] The contracts are the latest in a series of moves indicating the mining industry is getting back on its feet.

FTX Units Sue Embed Shareholders, Seek to Retrieve $6.9M

[May 18, 2023 3:35 AM] Alameda alleges that Bankman-Fried and other insiders paid Embed misappropriated FTX funds in late September 2022, only weeks before the crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy.

Lido Community Members Propose LDO Token Staking and Buyback Plan

[May 18, 2023 2:26 AM] The proposal includes a revenue-sharing parameter that would redirect 20-50% of “future Lido DAO revenue from the protocol treasury to stakers of $LDO.”

Crypto Observers Decode Large Block Trade in Ether Options

[May 18, 2023 2:13 AM] Debate rages on whether the large ether options flow witnessed on Tuesday represents a bet on return of volatility or a rollover of a "covered call" strategy.

U.S. Court Asked to Reverse Decision to Not Appoint Independent Examiner in FTX Bankruptcy

[May 18, 2023 2:09 AM] A Delaware bankruptcy court judge denied a motion to appoint a neutral examiner to avoid a lengthy and costly investigation that would slow the progress of the bankruptcy proceedings.

Pepe-Themed ‘Bitcoin Frogs’ Becomes Most Traded NFT Amid Bitcoin Ordinals Hype

[May 18, 2023 12:48 AM] Some $2 million worth of NFTs have been exchanged in the past 24 hours.

Binance Australia Halts Australian Dollar Bank Transfers

[May 18, 2023 12:25 AM] Exchange blames third-party payment providers, and says that credit as well as debit cards can still be used.

First Mover Asia: Biden’s Tough Talk, Tether’s Bitcoin Bet Not Moving Crypto

[May 17, 2023 6:44 PM] PLUS: We really need to see the Hinman emails.

Crypto Perpetuals Exchange DYdX Considering the Launch of More SubDAOs

[May 17, 2023 4:03 PM] The conversation was initiated to promote more decentralization within the dYdX ecosystem ahead of its v4 upgrade.

Filecoin Price Drops After SEC Asks Grayscale to Withdraw Application to Make Trust Reporting

[May 17, 2023 2:35 PM] The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asked Grayscale to withdraw its application to launch a Filecoin Trust product, the company revealed Wednesday.

USDC Issuer Circle Moves $8.7B to Repo Agreements to Protect Reserves From U.S. Government Default

[May 17, 2023 1:52 PM] Circle’s reserve fund has ditched Treasury bills that mature beyond May 31, rotating assets to cash and overnight repurchase agreements instead, a company spokesperson said.

DRC20 Tokens Take Dogecoin Community by Storm, Driving Record-Breaking Daily Transactions on the Network

[May 17, 2023 1:30 PM] With the BRC20 token economy maintaining a market capitalization of nearly $500 million, the introduction of the DRC20 token standard has sparked a flurry of excitement within the Dogecoin community. The emerging token type has ignited a surge of…

Ethereum Briefly Stopped Finalizing Transactions. What Happened?

[May 17, 2023 1:30 PM] The loss in finality meant that blocks could have been tampered with, and while it isn’t supposed to affect end-user experiences, it did lead to some inconveniences for some applications.

Fahrenheit Consortium Is Lead Bidder in Bankruptcy Auction for Celsius Assets

[May 17, 2023 11:30 AM] The assets include a loan portfolio, mining rigs and infrastrsucture and cryptocurrency worth as much as $2 billion.