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Tanya Denisova, the former chief operating officer of Robinhood Crypto, has joined stablecoin issuer Agora as head of operations, according to a Tuesday blog post by Agora's CEO and co-founder Nick van Eck.
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) will slash its budget by roughly 40% this year as part of a shift toward a leaner, endowment-style operating model, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in a blog post published Tuesday.
The $1.7 trillion asset manager Franklin Templeton is establishing a new dedicated active crypto investment management arm through acquisition of 250 Digital.
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Former bitcoin miner Hut 8 (HUT) agreed to pay $2.35 million to settle a securities class action alleging it misled investors in connection with its 2023 merger with U.S. Bitcoin Corp. (USBTC).
Strategy's preferred stock STRC slid to record lows over the past week, and the fall has revived a comparison to Terra's UST, the stablecoin whose collapse erased about $40 billion in 2022.
Ripple, the blockchain company behind the XRP Ledger, is on its way to regulatory approval in the European Union (EU) via licensing in Luxembourg.
That's the conclusion from an indicator that might seem to signal a bearish shift in sentiment but has tended to presage a more bullish outlook.
SpaceX's stock has lost more than $600 billion in market value over three trading days, which is nearly half of bitcoin's $1.3 trillion market cap, after announcing its first bond sale.
A widely watched indicator has flipped to "altcoin season," for the opposite reason the label suggests. Glassnode's Altcoin Cycle Signal, which reads above 50 when alternative coins, or alts, outperform bitcoin, has cli…
XRP is running out of room. After spending most of June trapped between resistance overhead and support near $1.10, the token is once again testing the bottom of its range.
What she's saying: Former 21Shares co-founder Ophelia Snyder argues that crypto and traditional finance are talking past each other when it comes to tokenization.
Thanks to the newly passed U.S. Senate housing affordability bill, the Federal Reserve may be heading toward a formal ban from instituting a digital dollar in the form of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), despite …
Latest developments: Edelman argues investor sentiment and industry fundamentals are moving in opposite directions.
A group of former Ethereum Foundation researchers have started a new nonprofit research and development organization backed by some of ether's largest corporate holders, as the Ethereum ecosystem undergoes a major organ…
Two of the biggest companies in the tokenization space are heading toward a legal showdown over intellectual property just as the industry they helped create begins to seriously court institutional investors on Wall Str…
MoneyGram said Monday it has become a validator on the Solana (SOL) blockchain, the latest step in the remittance firm's ongoing push into crypto infrastructure as it builds payment services around stablecoins.
Top U.S. crypto lobbying groups united to ask that the U.S. House of Representatives embrace a bill that gives digital assets miners and recipients of staking rewards an option for deciding when to take a tax hit on the…
Michael Saylor and his embattled Strategy (MSTR) sold more common stock last week, using the proceeds to add a relatively small amount of bitcoin and $300 million in cash to its balance sheet.
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The Ethereum community is once again debating the future of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang announced she would step down from her leadership role, the latest in a growing list of…
Despite the green shoots among the majors, the broader market has yet to follow suit. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) remains slightly lower over 24 hours. Still, smaller outliers like DEXE and BEAT jumped of 8% and 5%.
Federally chartered crypto bank Anchorage Digital is rolling out infrastructure that allows banks to issue tokenized deposits, joining a growing effort by financial institutions to bring traditional bank money onto bloc…
The largest Ethereum treasury company is still buying ether (ETH) but it has slowed its pace as it nears the goal to accumulate 5% of the second-largest crypto's supply.