In this week’s issue of CoinDesk’s weekly blockchain tech newsletter, we’re covering $100 million of fundraisings, project updates from Solana and other teams, complaints over LayerZero’s “pay-to-claim” airdrop and nervousness surrounding the Mt. Gox bitcoin distribution.
The bitcoin was seized from Silk Road vendor.
Particula’s Senior Vice President of Business Development, Axel Jester, says the growing complexity of tokenized assets demands robust risk management and continuous lifecycle monitoring.
In politics, money talks, but the donors and organizers behind crypto’s massive U.S. campaign fund don’t. The digital assets industry has amassed a juggernaut of campaign finance, a $169 million fund that’s capable of steering many contests this year and could decide the makeup of next year’s Congress. It’s already scored more than 20 victories, … Read more
Forget million-dollar profile pictures, the real innovation of NFTs is ownership rights. This technology still has potential to transform industries, says Layne Nadeau, Founder and CEO of Nval, a pricing and analytics platform for NFTs and other assets.
The Fortune 500 firm initially demanded an end to the crypto named for its nicotine pouch, but backed down after realizing there was no entity to sue.
OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova went missing in Athens in 2017.
The project, founded in 2022, says it aims to incorporate AI into decentralized applications with its “on-chain AI oracle.”
Blast is the second largest layer 2 network with $1.6 billion in TVL.
The prominent Web3 investor has held talks with investment banks, but is yet to finalize an advisor.
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for June 26, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
Several crypto asset service providers (CASPS) in the European Union (EU) may not know the correct deadline to make sustainability disclosures reflecting their environmental footprint despite a clarification made by the bloc’s securities regulator, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).
The partnership aims to create on-chain Real World Assets based on Investcorp’s funds.
Investors are likely to allocate funds to ETFs in proportion to the relative market caps of bitcoin and ether, the report said.
CEO Michael Kane and Shane Hampton, head of financial engineering, were sentenced to a total of more than six years in prison.
Over 25% of options are set to expire “in the money,” Deribit’s Luuk Strijers told CoinDesk.
No downtime was observed as a Cardano developer managed to attack the attacker and take back some funds.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has been a long-standing member of the U.S. Senate, and was a sponsor or co-sponsor of several key pieces of legislation enabling broad adoption of the internet. More recently, he voted in favor of a House Resolution overturning the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Staff Accounting Bulletin 121, and questioned threats to … Read more
The epicenter of the latest “meme coin” hype, Solana is introducing new tools designed to make crypto trading more accessible.
Colosseum deployed $250,000 to 11 companies so far.
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for June 25, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
Tuesday’s movements come days after the entity shifted $425 million among wallets, with some bitcoin transferred to exchanges.
Many PoliFi tokens fell more than 10% after claims emerged that the Trump campaign was behind the DJT token.
Ether and other digital assets need a better regulatory regime and the narrative is expected to improve around the U.S. elections later this year, the report said.
The payments firm now operates in over 100 countries and territories globally.
The defunct crypto exchange’s trustees said Monday they are preparing to start distributing bitcoin (BTC) stolen from clients in a 2014 hack in the first week of July.
BTC’s dominance tanked Monday as news of Mt. Gox repayments bolstered concerns of supply overhang entering the market.
This Elastic Chain is composed of multiple chains in the ZKsync ecosystem, but users will feel like they are using a single chain.
Bitcoin has seen significant selling pressure from continued ETF outflow, Mt. Gox’s upcoming bankruptcy redemptions, and miner sales.
