Crypto Exchange Coinbase Suspends Algorand Staking Rewards

Major cryptocurrencies spiked as much as 13% as a bump in bitcoin (BTC) led to an overall rise in crypto markets, buoyed by hopes of a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) approval.All major tokens reversed losses from the past week, bitcoin jumped above $30,000, and ether (ETH) crossed the $1,600 mark on Friday. XRP gained

feature Hundreds of people are earning bitcoin by taking vacations. The in-browser app Lolli, which allows users to earn bitcoin rewards for online purchases, just added Hotels.com to its list of partners. Now with Booking.com, Priceline, Hilton and Marriott, Lolli CEO Alex Adelman told CoinDesk travel purchases account for 40 percent of sales. “We are…

Sandali Handagama is a CoinDesk reporter with a focus on crypto regulation and policy. She does not own any crypto.Attorneys for Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon have proposed he be let off on supervised bail as he faces charges in Montenegro for attempting to travel with falsified documents.Montenegrin authorities arrested Kwon and fellow Terra executive…

Oct 9, 2020 at 16:13 UTCUpdated Oct 9, 2020 at 16:40 UTCCME headquarters, Chicago(Daniel J. Macy/Shutterstock)The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the largest U.S. regulated market for bitcoin futures, has been sounding out cryptocurrency traders to gauge their interest in a listing of futures and options for the Ethereum blockchain’s native tokens.Darius Sit, founder and chief…

Vitalik Buterin, Zooko Wilcox, Simon de la Rouviere, Santiago Siri – all are prominent leaders in the blockchain technology sector who regularly attend and speak at conferences around the world. In this way, the RadicalxChange Conference in Detroit this weekend might not have seemed different than the many crypto conferences globally, but if its lineup bore…

Sam Bankman-Fried's defense team wants to question Caroline Ellison about the extent to which she depended on legal counsel to make certain decisions while CEO of Alameda Research as well as the valuation of FTX's stake in Anthropic AI.In a pair of filings Tuesday night, shortly after Ellison concluded her first day of testimony, attorneys

May 14, 2020 at 15:26 UTCLong live miniatures. (Credit: Shutterstock)Staying Alive: Why the World of Enterprise Blockchain Has Turned to CollaborationsEnterprise blockchain isn’t dead, but survival has meant more collaboration and some smart pivots.  That was the prevailing sentiment in the enterprise-focused corners of this week’s Consensus: Distributed conference. Back in 2015, a large amount of hype…

The investment arm of crypto exchange KuCoin will provide a $20,000 grant to the TON network to fund ongoing initiatives in the ecosystem, a KuCoin spokesperson said by email."The first phase of our partnership involves a $20,000 grant, which will be allocated to five TON-based mini-apps," the spokesperson said. "Meanwhile, we are in discussion with

Bitcoin (BTC) is reporting losses for a second straight month, but there are hints of a bullish breakout ahead in the fourth quarter. At press time, the leading cryptocurrency is trading at $6,570 – down 6.30 percent from September's opening price of $7,014. BTC also registered a 10-percent decline in August, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin…