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Coinbase Reportedly Warns Some UK Users It's Handing Their Details to the Taxman Original
(Images_of_Money's/ Wikimedia Commons) Coinbase Reportedly Warns Some UK Users It's Handing Their Details to the Taxman Coinbase has told some of its users that it is passing their details onto the U.K. tax authority, HMRC. As first reported by Decrypt, the popular crypto exchange emailed some users saying that, as part of a deal with HMRC, it must provide records on customers who had received more than £5,000 ($6,500) during the 2019/20 tax year.
Ripple Wins US Patent for New Oracle-Based Smart Contract Design
Oct 2, 2020 at 13:37 UTCUpdated Oct 2, 2020 at 14:34 UTC Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple CEO, speaks at Davos 2020. (Zack Seward/CoinDesk) Ripple Wins US Patent for New Oracle-Based Smart Contract Design Blockchain payments technology firm Ripple has won a patent for a design that can execute smart contracts based on data collected from the outside world.
Digital Euro Will ‘Protect’ Eurozone from Foreign Issuers, Says ECB Exec
European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany (Shutterstock) Digital Euro Will ‘Protect’ Eurozone from Foreign Issuers, Says ECB Exec An executive at the European Central Bank (ECB) has said a future digital euro initiative could save the eurozone from relying on digital currencies issued by foreign entities.
Australia's Central Bank Tells ASX to Push on With Delayed DLT Trading Platform Original
Australia's Central Bank Tells ASX to Push on With Delayed DLT Trading Platform The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has told the country’s largest stock exchange to develop its blockchain-based trading platform without further delay. In a public statement Thursday, the RBA and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) told the Australian Stock Exchange that it should replace its aged Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) in a safe but timely manner.
eToro to Offer Staking Rewards for Holders of TRON and Cardano
eToro partner booth at Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Seb Daly/Web Summit/ Wikimedia Commons) eToro to Offer Staking Rewards for Holders of TRON and Cardano Multi-asset exchange eToro is launching a new service that will offer rewards for “staking” tokens, beginning with TRON and ADA. The trading platform announced Thursday that the service, one of the first to offer staking for Cardano's native ADA token, will go live later this month.
Record $166M Ethereum Fees Last Month Were Six Times Bigger than Bitcoin's
Ethereum art (CoinDesk archives) Record $166M Ethereum Fees Last Month Were Six Times Bigger than Bitcoin's Ethereum miners earned over six times more in fees compared to those working on Bitcoin in September. Glassnode data shows Ethereum's total transaction fees stood at an all-time high of $166 million for the month – far more than the $26 million taken in Bitcoin fees.
DeFi Buzz Drove Record $12M Earnings This Summer, Says Ethereum Miner HIVE Blockchain
Bees at work(Shutterstock) DeFi Buzz Drove Record $12M Earnings This Summer, Says Ethereum Miner HIVE Blockchain HIVE Blockchain has reported its best-ever quarter, as the mining firm raked in record fees from the frenzied activity in decentralized finance (DeFi) over the summer. The Toronto-listed mining company released its unaudited results Thursday, saying it mined a total of 32,000 ether (ETH) and 121,000 ethereum classic (RTC) in the second fiscal quarter ending Sept. 30.
3iQ’s Bitcoin Fund Gets Second Listing of 2020 – This Time on Gibraltar's Stock Exchange - CoinDesk Original
Sep 30, 2020 at 15:05 UTCUpdated Sep 30, 2020 at 15:06 UTC 3iQ’s Bitcoin Fund Gets Second Listing of 2020 – This Time on Gibraltar's Stock Exchange The Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX) has listed 3iQ’s closed-end fund, five months after it was first listed in Toronto. GSX announced Tuesday that The Bitcoin Fund, which provides institutional investors with exposure to bitcoin through a regulated asset class, is now ready for trading.
SEC Orders Salt Lending to Refund Investors in Its $47M ICO
Sep 30, 2020 at 14:42 UTCUpdated Sep 30, 2020 at 14:44 UTC SEC Orders Salt Lending to Refund Investors in Its $47M ICO The U.S.’s top financial watchdog has ordered Salt Lending to offer investors refunds for its 2017 initial coin offering (ICO). The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) told Salt Lending, a protocol offering dollar-denominated loans collateralized by cryptocurrencies, it had fourteen days to begin the process of offering refunds to investors.
DeFi 'Vampire' SushiSwap Still Hemorrhaging Liquidity
Sep 30, 2020 at 12:27 UTC Justinc / Wikimedia Commons DeFi 'Vampire' SushiSwap Still Hemorrhaging Liquidity DeFi trading protocol SushiSwap, which threatened to sap the life out of rival Uniswap just two weeks ago, is still losing crucial liquidity. Data from DeFi Pulse shows total value locked (TVL) in SushiSwap has dropped nearly 8% in the past 24 hours. TVL represents the dollar value of the tokens locked into a protocol's smart contracts.
Is Reddit’s MOON Token Really 2000x Bigger Than the Global Economy?
Sep 30, 2020 at 10:07 UTCUpdated Sep 30, 2020 at 10:09 UTC (Antonio Zugaldia / Wikimedia Commons) Is Reddit’s MOON Token Really 2000x Bigger Than the Global Economy? A token for rewarding content on a specific Reddit forum now has the unusual honor of being thousands of times bigger than the entire global economy… kind of. MOON, a community token for the r/Cryptocurrency subreddit, technically has a market cap of over $2.88 septillion (that’s 24 zeroes) at press time.
ユニスワップ、預け入れ資産が20億ドルを突破──2カ月前のDeFi総資産を上回る | CoinDesk Japan | コインデスク・ジャパン
ユニスワップ（Uniswap）は、預け入れ資産総額（TVL：Total Value Locked）がDeFi（分散型金融）プラットフォームとして初めて20億ドル（約2100億円）を超え、2カ月前のDeFi全体の規模を上回った。 ユニスワップはイーサリアム上でイーサ（ETH）やERC20トークンを交換するためのプロトコルで、DEX（Decentralized Exchange＝分散型取引所）と呼ばれる。 データサイトのDeFiパルス（DeFi Pulse）によると、ユニスワップの預け入れ総資産額（TVL）は9月28日の未明（協定世界時）に、過去最高を記録。現在は20億6000万ドル（約2170億円）の暗号資産（仮想通貨）が預け入れられている。現在ユニスワップだけで、7月9日時点のDeFi全体の預け入れ総資産額を上回った。 記事執筆時点、DeFi全体の預け入れ資産総額（TVL）は110億ドル（約1兆1600億円）を超え、ユニスワップはその約18%を占めている。 大きく揺れ動いたユニスワップ...
Regulated US Exchange Gemini Now Offers Confidential Zcash Withdrawals
Sep 29, 2020 at 14:52 UTC Regulated US Exchange Gemini Now Offers Confidential Zcash Withdrawals Gemini, one of a handful cryptocurrency exchanges regulated in New York, has said users can now withdraw privacy coin zcash confidentially from the exchange. The New York-based exchange said in a blog post Tuesday it had added "shielded" zcash withdrawals – meaning users can take assets off the platform without disclosing their identities or the size of their transactions.
Investors Flock to India's DeFi Scene Months After Central Bank Ban Overturned
Sep 29, 2020 at 14:17 UTC Indian Supreme Court, New Delhi (iMetal21/Shutterstock) Investors Flock to India's DeFi Scene Months After Central Bank Ban Overturned Six months after India’s highest court overturned a banking ban on crypto companies, investors have jumped at the chance to back decentralized finance (DeFi) projects hailing from the subcontinent. DeFi protocols UniLend Finance and PlotX announced Tuesday they had both successfully completed their seed rounds.
SEC Won't Take Action Against Compliance-Focused Digital Security Exchanges
Sep 29, 2020 at 12:52 UTCUpdated Sep 29, 2020 at 12:53 UTC SEC building(Andriy Blokhin/Shutterstock) SEC Won't Take Action Against Compliance-Focused Digital Security Exchanges The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has said digital security exchanges that ensure assets on their books are legitimate in origin can continue to operate unhindered.
Relief and Regret: Crypto Twitter Reacts as Coinbase Says No to Corporate Activism
Sep 29, 2020 at 09:57 UTC Coinbase CEO and co-founder Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk archives) Relief and Regret: Crypto Twitter Reacts as Coinbase Says No to Corporate Activism Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong dropped a bombshell on corporate America and the culture wars when he told employees, firmly, to keep activism out of the workplace. In a blog post on Monday, Armstrong said Coinbase employees should be “laser focused” on the company’s mission: to create an open financial system for the world.
大型資金調達から3年、ファイルコインがメインネットを10月にも稼働 | CoinDesk Japan | コインデスク・ジャパン
3年前にICO（新規コイン公開）で2億500万ドル（約220億円）の資金を調達して注目を集めたファイルコイン（Filecoin）が、ようやくメインネットを稼働させる。 ブロックチェーンを使った分散型ストレージネットワークの開発を進めてきたファイルコインは27日、メインネットが14万8888ブロックで稼働を始めると発表。早ければ10月15日に開始するという。 ファイルコインはAWS（アマゾン・ウェブ・サービス）のようなクラウドサービスに代わる分散型ストレージとして注目を集め、2017年のICOでは当時最高額となる資金を調達した。 メインネットの稼働は当初、2019年半ばの開始で計画されていた。スタート時には230のプロジェクトと1000人の開発者がファイルコインで作業を開始する予定で、依然として業界の関心を集めている。 テストネット参加者にトークンを配布 世界中から400人を超えるマイナーがテストネット「スペースレース（Space...
Filecoin Confirms Long-Awaited Mainnet Launch for Next Month Original
Sep 28, 2020 at 15:12 UTC Filecoin creator Juan Benet (CoinDesk archives) Filecoin Confirms Long-Awaited Mainnet Launch for Next Month Three years after its $257 million initial coin offering (ICO), Filecoin has said its live network is about to launch. In a post Sunday, the blockchain-based storage provider said the mainnet will launch at block 148,888, currently expected on Oct. 15.
Bitcoin Miner Producer Ebang Blames Coronavirus for 50% Slump in Revenue Original
Sep 28, 2020 at 13:32 UTCUpdated Sep 28, 2020 at 13:33 UTC (FOTO:FORTEPAN / Korenchy László / Wikimedia Commons) Bitcoin Miner Producer Ebang Blames Coronavirus for 50% Slump in Revenue Ebang has said the knock-on effects of the coronavirus outbreak caused revenue to fall by half in the first six months of 2020.
Bitwise Bitcoin Fund Doubles to $9M as Investor Fears Grow Over Runaway Inflation
Sep 28, 2020 at 10:28 UTC Bitwise Head of Research Matthew Hougan(CoinDesk archives) Bitwise Bitcoin Fund Doubles to $9M as Investor Fears Grow Over Runaway Inflation Accredited investors worried about out-of-control inflation have poured millions into Bitwise’s bitcoin fund as a means to preserve the value of their portfolios.
$2B Locked: Uniswap Now Bigger Than Entire DeFi Industry Just Two Months Ago
Sep 28, 2020 at 09:31 UTCUpdated Sep 28, 2020 at 09:32 UTC $2B Locked: Uniswap Now Bigger Than Entire DeFi Industry Just Two Months Ago Uniswap is now bigger than the entire decentralized finance space just two months ago, as the trading protocol becomes the first to pass the $2 billion milestone. Uniswap clocked the record figure just after midnight (UTC) Monday and currently has $2.06 billion worth of crypto assets locked in, according to crypto rankings website DeFi Pulse.
Bitcoin's Bearish September Has Kneecapped Crypto ETP Activity: Report
Sep 25, 2020 at 14:25 UTC Bitcoin's Bearish September Has Kneecapped Crypto ETP Activity: Report Bitcoin’s bearish price performance this month has prompted investors to pull out of some crypto derivatives products, with trading volumes taking a nosedive as a result. A CryptoCompare report published Thursday shows volumes for cryptocurrency-based exchange-traded-products (ETPs) have fallen to a fraction of what they were in August.
OneCoin Investors Allege BNY Mellon Aided $4B Fraud Original
Sep 25, 2020 at 11:55 UTC (daveynin/Wikimedia Commons) OneCoin Investors Allege BNY Mellon Aided $4B Fraud Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has been accused of playing a “central role” in the $4 billion Ponzi scheme OneCoin, just days after the publication of the so-called FinCEN Files.
Ant Launches Business Trade Blockchain in Run-Up to $35B IPO
Sep 25, 2020 at 09:26 UTCUpdated Sep 25, 2020 at 09:28 UTC Ant Launches Business Trade Blockchain in Run-Up to $35B IPO Ant Group has launched a cross-border trading blockchain platform as it prepares for what could be the largest stock market flotation of all time. Ant said Friday that its new trade platform, called "Trusple," will make it easier for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to sell their wares to clients overseas.
Uniswap Users Have Claimed $560M-Worth of UNI Tokens in a Week
Sep 24, 2020 at 14:21 UTC (Heinrich Jonas/Wikimedia Commons) Uniswap Users Have Claimed $560M-Worth of UNI Tokens in a Week Uniswap users have snapped up much of the supply of free UNI tokens in the first week. Data from Dune Analytics on Thursday shows that eligible participants in the DeFi project have claimed approximately 78% of the existing UNI supply – just under 117 million tokens. At the current $4.78 market price, that means just under $560 million-worth of the tokens have been claimed.
EU Proposes Full Regulatory Framework for Cryptocurrencies
Sep 24, 2020 at 13:07 UTCUpdated Sep 24, 2020 at 13:11 UTC European Commission, Brussels(Skyfish/Shutterstock) EU Proposes Full Regulatory Framework for Cryptocurrencies The European Union’s executive branch has laid out plans to create a comprehensive framework for digital assets. Confirming CoinDesk's report last week, the European Commission on Thursday proposed legislation that will turn cryptocurrencies into a regulated financial instrument.
Crypto Companies Are Lining Up to Work With Us, Says Visa Exec
Sep 24, 2020 at 10:30 UTCUpdated Sep 24, 2020 at 10:31 UTC Håkan Dahlström Photography / Wikimedia Commons Crypto Companies Are Lining Up to Work With Us, Says Visa Exec The world’s largest payments processor has said it’s considering partnership proposals from an increasing number of crypto companies. Terry Angelos, Visa's global fintech lead told Forbes cryptocurrency companies had shown a "significant interest" in working with them.
ロビンフッド、700億円を調達──株取引ブームで企業価値は1兆円超：報道 | CoinDesk Japan | コインデスク・ジャパン
株取引アプリを手がける米ロビンフッド（Robinhood）が最新の資金調達ラウンド（Gラウンド）で6億6000万ドル（約700億円）を調達した。ロイターが24日、報じた。 大手ベンチャーキャピタルのアンドリーセン・ホロウィッツ（Andreessen Horowitz）、セコイア・キャピタル（Sequoia Capital）、リビット・キャピタル（Ribbit Capital）、9ヤーズ・キャピタル（9Yards Capital）、D1キャピタル・パートナーズ（D1 Capital Partners）をはじめとする既存の投資家が出資した。ロビンフッドの株取引アプリは、複数の暗号資産（仮想通貨）も取り扱っている。 今回のラウンドでは、すでに4億6000万ドルの資金を調達していたが、D1キャピタルがさらに2億ドルの投資を申し出たという。これにより、ロビンフッドの企業評価額は117億ドル（約1兆2300億円）に達したと広報担当者はロイターに語った。...
「ステーブルコイン」という名称は変更すべきだ：欧州中央銀行 | CoinDesk Japan | コインデスク・ジャパン
欧州中央銀行（ECB）は9月22日に発表したレポートで、適切に設計され、十分に規制されたデジタル資産はその名前にふさわしいものになり得るが、現在の「ステーブルコイン」は、その名称が表す「本質的に安定したお金」という意味には不十分なものであり、「混乱を招かない」あるいは「誤解を招く可能性の少ない」ものに変更すべきと述べた。 ECBの30ページにおよぶレポートによると、ヨーロッパでのステーブルコインの成長は、新たな決済手段や代替的な価値の保存手段としての利用を増加させる結果をもたらす可能性があるという。 ステーブルコインという用語は、価格変動が最小限に抑えられるよう設計されたデジタル資産を指す。ステーブルコインは、一般的には法定通貨やゴールドのような資産に裏付けられている、もしくは連動している。 安定性は発行者が保証しているに過ぎない ECBは、少なくとも当面の間、低金利が続く限り、ユーザーが価値の保有手段としてステーブルコインを使う可能性はほぼないだろうが、消費者がステーブルコインという用語に惑わされたり、誤解させられる危険性があると述べた。...
UNI Market Cap Rebounds $120M as Rest of Crypto Market Falters Original
Sep 23, 2020 at 14:48 UTC (Zorro2212 / Wikimedia Commons) UNI Market Cap Rebounds $120M as Rest of Crypto Market Falters Uniswap’s week-old UNI token is the big winner in Wednesday trading with a rebounding price and a market cap swelling by over $100 million in the past 24 hours. Data from CoinGecko shows the price of the UNI token has increased by just under 20% from $3.80 to over $4.60 over the same time frame.
Robinhood Raises Cool $660M in Extended Funding Round
Sep 23, 2020 at 11:30 UTC A different kind of Robin Hood (Steve Harvey / Unsplash) Robinhood Raises Cool $660M in Extended Funding Round Unicorn trading app Robinhood has taken over $600 million in an extended funding round as it rides the summer’s retail trading wave. Reuters reported Wednesday that Robinhood had raised a total of $660 million in its latest Series G round.
Data Site DeFi Pulse Fixes Bug, Says Value Locked Actually Hit $13B Last Week Original
Sep 23, 2020 at 09:30 UTC Data Site DeFi Pulse Fixes Bug, Says Value Locked Actually Hit $13B Last Week The go-to analytics site for the decentralized finance (DeFi) space has admitted a bug meant it had misreported a crucial metric showing value held on DeFi protocols.
米宇宙軍、データ防衛にブロックチェーンを活用──衛星からのデータを守る | CoinDesk Japan | コインデスク・ジャパン
米宇宙軍（USSF：United States Space Force）は、ブロックチェーンを使ったデータ保護システムの開発に関する契約をXage Securityと締結した。 Xageはすでにブロックチェーンを活用した「Xage Security Fabric」を開発。データを検証し、ネットワークを第三者の介入から保護することで、衛星から地球に送られる機密データが傍受されることを防ぐ。 Xage Security Fabricは、USSFのネットワーク全体のセキュリティを維持し、ハッカーなどが弱点を攻撃して悪用されることを防止する。 Xage Securityのダンカン・グレートウッド（Duncan Greatwood）CEOは、ブロックチェーンを使うことで、USSFはネットワーク上のすべての資産とデータ要素について効果的な回復力を持つことができるようになったとリリースで述べた。 米空軍も昨年12月、Xage Security Fabricを評価するためにXageと同様の契約を結んでいる。 翻訳：CoinDesk Japan編集部 編集：増田隆幸、佐藤茂...
Nasdaq and SEC-Registered Fund Manager to Launch First-Ever Crypto ETF Original
Sep 22, 2020 at 15:07 UTC Nasdaq and SEC-Registered Fund Manager to Launch First-Ever Crypto ETF The first exchange-traded fund (ETF) to broadly track the digital asset market has been accepted to list on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX). BSX announced last week the Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index ETF had been admitted to list on its trading platform.
US Government Darknet Raid Seizes $6.5M in Cash and Cryptocurrencies
Sep 22, 2020 at 13:45 UTC (kenkistler/Shutterstock) US Government Darknet Raid Seizes $6.5M in Cash and Cryptocurrencies The U.S. government has made one of the biggest drug busts in history, with half a tonne of narcotics and millions of dollars in cash and cryptocurrencies taken from dealers that use the darknet.
'Misleading' Term Stablecoin Should Be Ditched, Says ECB
Sep 22, 2020 at 12:25 UTC ‘Misleading’ Term Stablecoin Should Be Ditched, Says ECB The European Central Bank (ECB) has said the term “stablecoin” should be replaced with something less potentially “confusing” and “even misleading”.
US Space Force Enlists Blockchain Firm to Deploy Hack-Proof Data Defenses
Sep 22, 2020 at 10:05 UTC (Calistemon / Wikimedia Commons) US Space Force Enlists Blockchain Firm to Deploy Hack-Proof Data Defenses The service branch protecting U.S. interests outside the stratosphere is using blockchain to render its computer systems, on earth and in space, unhackable. Last week, Xage Security won a contract from the United States Space Force (USSF) to develop and roll out a blockchain-based data protection system across its networks.
カードゲームにドル連動型デジタル通貨決済──クリプトキティのダッパー・ラボがUSDCを採用 | CoinDesk Japan | コインデスク・ジャパン
ゲームメーカーのダッパー・ラボ（Dapper Labs）とドル連動型ステーブルコイン「USDコイン（USDC）」を発行するサークル（Circle）は9月15日、ダッパー・ラボが展開するゲームに初めてステーブルコインによる決済を導入したと発表した。 ダッパー・ラボの現在の主力ゲーム「NBA Top Shot」はブロックチェーンを使ったデジタル・カードゲームで、カードを集めたり、交換することができる。CoinDeskが入手したデータによると、6月にスタートしたこのカードゲームはこれまでに200万ドル（約2億1000万円）の収益と5万8081件の取引を記録している。 このゲームでは、ノン・ファンジブル・トークン（NFT）と呼ばれる特殊な暗号資産が使われている。NFTは、トークン1つ1つがすべて唯一無二のもので、デジタル・カードゲームやデジタルアートにとって最適な形態となっている。 関連記事：八村塁も参戦？──米NBA、バスケのオンラインゲームに新技術。著名デベロッパー企業と手を組む 主流層ユーザーを取り込む...
Three Iranian Power Plants Plan to Sell Electricity to Crypto Miners
The Shahid Salimi Power Plant outside of Neka, Iran (TruthPraiser/Wikimedia Commons) Sep 21, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Sep 30, 2020 at 2:11 p.m. UTC Three Iranian Power Plants Plan to Sell Electricity to Crypto Miners Three Iranian power plants with enough output to supply half of New York City will soon begin selling surplus electricity to cryptocurrency miners, in a bid to create a new source of revenue.
FinCEN Files: BNY Mellon Processed $137M for Entities Linked to OneCoin
Sep 21, 2020 at 10:37 UTCUpdated Sep 21, 2020 at 10:39 UTC (Ronny Martin Junnilainen / Wikimedia Commons) FinCEN Files: BNY Mellon Processed $137M for Entities Linked to OneCoin One of America’s oldest banks wired over a hundred million dollars in funds linked to the crypto Ponzi scheme OneCoin, according to a trove of documents leaked from the U.S.’ financial crimes watchdog.
Three Iranian Power Plants Plan to Sell Electricity to Crypto Miners
Three Iranian power plants with enough output to supply half of New York City will soon begin selling surplus electricity to cryptocurrency miners, in a bid to create a new source of revenue. Thermal Power Plant Holding Company (TPPH), which owns and operates plants all across Iran, said crypto miners could now offer to buy electricity from three of its power stations, according to a report from the Tehran Times.
アリババ、世界最多のブロックチェーン特許を保有──IBMを追い抜く：調査報告 | CoinDesk Japan | コインデスク・ジャパン
アリババグループは2020年上半期、ブロックチェーンに関連する特許をライバルのIBMの10倍以上申請しており、同技術領域のフロントランナーとしてその存在力を強めている。知的財産コンサルティング会社のKISSPatentが9月17日に発表したレポートで明らかになった。 アリババは今年はじめに、クロスチェーンシステムの特許や音楽著作権を保護するブロックチェーンの特許を取得している。 出典 : KISSPatent アリババがこのままのペースを維持すれば、2020年末までにブロックチェーン関連で最大の特許保有会社になる見込みだ。 KISSPatentによると、アリババやIBMにとどまらず、ブロックチェーン関連の特許申請は世界的に急増している。2020年上半期だけで、2019年よりも多くの特許が申請された。2019年は2018年に比べて、その数は3倍に増えた。 ブロックチェーン業界以外から 特許の多くはブロックチェーン業界からではなく、伝統的なフォーチュン500企業によって申請されている。これはブロックチェーンのオープンソース文化が広がっていることが関係しているとされている。...
Uniswap's Newly Launched UNI Token Has Already Doubled in Price Original
Sep 18, 2020 at 14:24 UTCUpdated Sep 18, 2020 at 15:24 UTC UNI 24h price action (CoinGecko) Uniswap’s Newly Launched UNI Token Has Already Doubled in Price Uniswap’s UNI token may be only two days old, but its price has already risen by around 100%. Data from CoinGecko shows the UNI token price has surged from just under $2.80 to a high of $5.80 in the past 24 hours.
Cryptopia Users Can Claim Assets from End of 2020, Says Hacked Exchange's Liquidator Original
Sep 18, 2020 at 13:21 UTC (Sharaf Maksumov/Shutterstock) Cryptopia Users Can Claim Assets from End of 2020, Says Hacked Exchange’s Liquidator The liquidators of defunct cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia have told users they’ll soon be able to register to claim their trapped digital assets, worth a combined $100 million.
Investment Firm Blockchain Capital Joins Libra Association
Sep 18, 2020 at 12:34 UTC Decred's Akin Sawyerr (center) speaks on a CES panel with Libra Association Vice Chair Dante Disparte (right), photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk Investment Firm Blockchain Capital Joins Libra Association One of the oldest investment firms in crypto has joined the governance organization behind the Facebook-backed Libra project. The Libra Association announced Friday that Blockchain Capital would advise on the creation of its global payment system.
Twitter Tightens Security Ahead of Presidential Election
Sep 18, 2020 at 11:35 UTC Twitter Tightens Security Ahead of Presidential Election High profile users on Twitter will be told to up their account security as the platform looks to prevent hacks and protect “unique sensitivities” in the run-up to the 2020 U.S. election. The social media site said in a post on Friday that certain Twitter accounts will be required to use strong passwords and will only be able to reset them if they supply identifying information, such as an email or a phone number.
Ethereum Smashes Records as DeFi Hype Sends Transactions and Miner Revenue Soaring Original
Sep 18, 2020 at 10:35 UTC A miner plying his trade in 1958. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Ethereum Smashes Records as DeFi Hype Sends Transactions and Miner Revenue Soaring Miners on crypto’s second-biggest blockchain had a bumper day Thursday, earning a record $16 million for confirming a growing number of DeFi-related transactions. Data collected from Etherscan shows miners collected a total 42,763 ether in transaction fees on Thursday – a new all-time high.
Societe Generale to Use as Many as Five Blockchains in Capital Markets Trials
Sep 17, 2020 at 14:59 UTC Societe Generale to Use as Many as Five Blockchains in Capital Markets Trials The tech arm of Societe Generale has confirmed plans to use up to five different blockchains to test digital securities and a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Earlier this week, Forge, a tech-focused subsidiary of the French investment bank, announced it was experimenting with the Tezos blockchain to gauge how useful it would be for capital market activities.
First Mover: Federal Reserve Does What It Wants to Do as Bitcoin Hits $11K
Sep 17, 2020 at 13:08 UTC Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dons reading glasses prior to Wednesday's press conference. (Federal Reserve, modified by CoinDesk) First Mover: Federal Reserve Does What It Wants to Do as Bitcoin Hits $11K Every time the Federal Reserve meets, it’s important to remember that the only real monetary policy tradition at the 107-year-old institution is that a bunch of people will get together and talk about markets and the economy and decide what to do next.
Alibaba Could Be the Biggest Blockchain Patent Holder
Sep 17, 2020 at 13:00 UTC Founder of Alibaba Group Jack Ma (Wang HE/Getty Images) Alibaba on Track to Be the Largest Blockchain Patent Holder by End of 2020: Study Alibaba is on track to supersede U.S. computer giant IBM by becoming the single-largest holder of blockchain-related patents, according to a new study.
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