Bakkt CEO: Crypto Trading Platform Won’t Support Margin Trading

Sam Altman, the OpenAI executive who was out, then back in, is known in crypto circles for his other major project: Worldcoin, with its Black Mirror-esque iris-scanning orb. The project just released a major update, detailed in this week's feature by CoinDesk's Sam Kessler; he also managed to extract from the project's tech guru, Tiago

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s long-awaited update to its guidance on virtual assets lays out a comprehensive set of guidelines to regulate the quickly evolving cryptocurrency space. With this update released, digital assets firms in the coming years are likely to encounter more clarity on anti-money-laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regulations…

Dec 19, 2019 at 10:00 UTCUpdated Dec 19, 2019 at 10:03 UTCSnowball image via ShutterstockSnowball: The Effort to Bring Privacy to Every Bitcoin WalletDeveloper Ben Woosley was watching the Hong Kong protesters when he saw something interesting: They were using Bluetooth technology to dodge the internet, allowing them to create a mesh network for organizing…

news Japanese telecom SoftBank is exploring blockchain tech as a way to improve upon current centralized and fragmented ID and authentication services. The firm announced Tuesday that it has partnered with U.S.-based blockchain startup TBCASoft for the initiative and has created a working group within an existing blockchain consortium of telecom carriers, the Carrier Blockchain…

Cam Thompson is a news reporter at CoinDesk.Web3 education platform Curious Addys and non-fungible token (NFT) educator Zeneca are teaming up to roll out HeyMint, a beginner NFT platform meant to help creators build out their first collection.With a goal of easing the minting process for creators and onboarding new entrants to Web3, HeyMint aims…

Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers can question Department of Justice witnesses about their recreational drug use during the FTX founder's fraud trial next month, a judge ruled Tuesday.Judge Lewis Kaplan, of the Southern District of New York, resolved the majority of outstanding in limine, or pretrial, motions in a 16-page order Tuesday, allowing the DOJ to admit

Feb 6, 2020 at 14:15 UTCUpdated Feb 6, 2020 at 14:21 UTCICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher said Bakkt's pending acquisition of Bridge2 Solutions will help it offer consumers access to crypto and loyalty points through a single app. (Image via CoinDesk archives)Bakkt’s acquisition of a loyalty rewards company will “expand Bakkt’s presence across an asset class…

Bitcoin Trend Indicator (Jan 16: changed to light green. Jan 18: changed to yellow)Bitcoin Trend Indicator - Jan 16: changed to light green. Jan 18: changed to yellow (CoinDesk)Since we turned neutral on the Bitcoin Trend Indicator (from significant uptrend, on Jan. 18), and front-end US interest rates have risen 5bps, we’ve fallen lower about

Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Stephen Alpher is CoinDesk's co-regional news chief, Americas. He holds BTC above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.The…