Month: February 2023
The SEC’s Crackdown on Ethereum Staking Has a Silver Lining
The SEC’s recent actions shut down centralization staking services, but not individual staking and decentralized staking services. That could increase decentralization and help restore crypto’s original mission.
First Mover Americas: Cathie Wood Doubles Down on Coinbase
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Feb. 23, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
Binance Closed Derivative Positions of Some Australian Users, Will Compensate Them for Losses
Binance’s futures trading products were offered to only licensed participants in the region.
Bitcoin Mining Consulting Firm Sabre56 Raises $35M to Build 150MW of Hosting Sites
The consulting firm is moving onto the hosting business — and it already has a ‘waiting list’ of clients.
Crypto Analytics Firm Messari Cuts 15% Workforce as Part of Restructuring
The crypto intelligence firm, which is led by Ryan Selkis, had closed a $35 million Series B last year.
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Crypto Regulatory Initiatives Show SEC’s Dominance Among US Regulators: JPMorgan
JPMorgan foresees more regulatory actions on stablecoin issuers, custody and protection of investors’ digital assets and on the unbundling of crypto services, the report said.
XRP Ledger Proposes Cross-Chain Bridge to Increase Network and Token Utility
The proposal defines how changes to an account’s transaction sequence can be made on the XRP Ledger to ensure the movement of tokens between XRP Ledger and associated sidechains.
Valve bans 40,000 accounts after laying a trap for cheaters in Dota 2
The developer used information it had gathered about a prevelant third-party cheating software to catch and punish players using it red-handed. | Image: Valve Over 40,000 Dota 2 accounts have been permanently banned in the last few weeks after they were caught red-handed using third-party software to cheat the game. In a blog post published … Read more
Solana Blockchain Well Positioned to Reassert Itself as a Genuine Layer 1 Competitor: Coinbase
The fundamental value proposition of the Solana protocol persists from a technical perspective, the report said.
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Galaxy Digital Closes $44M Acquisition of Self-Custody Platform GK8
The self-custody platform was an asset of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius.