Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 21, 2020

Bitcoin (BTC) rose to key price resistance early Tuesday as Hong Kong said retail investors could trade digital assets from June 1.Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced that it would accept applications from exchanges to offer crypto trading to retail investors from June 1, adding that approved tokens need a 12-month track record…

Decentralized ledger startup Hedera Hashgraph has raised $100 million to build out its platform and launch its network, the firm said Wednesday.

Deus X Capital, a family office backed investment firm, launched today with Tim Grant as CEO, the company said in a statement.The company begins with $1 billion of assets, including existing investments and capital to be deployed in private equity, venture capital and fund allocation opportunities in the digital asset, blockchain, fintech and institutional capital

Apr 25, 2020 at 14:00 UTCPodcastsBitcoin Halving 2020: The ‘Arms Race’ for Miner Efficiency IntensifiesIn lead-up to the next bitcoin halving event in May, some bitcoin miners are looking at leveraging what Moore and Carlson describe as “surplus energy” to make operations even more cost-effective.Listen/subscribe to the CoinDesk Podcast feed for unique perspectives and fresh…

As part of our special NFT series, we asked the artist Michael Kutsche to make an image of Caroline Ellison, the former Alameda Research executive who took a star turn as a witness for the prosecution in this year's criminal trial of the once-crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried.Click here to view and bid on the NFT

Toncoin dropped 8% after jumping nearly 35% last week, while ImmutableX's IMX jumped 30% on Thursday.Optimism's OP token slid 5% after the Optimism Foundation sold 116 million tokens.Bitcoin (BTC) traders showed low signs of euphoria that could buoy broader crypto markets after a key Mt.Gox action was delayed another year, suggesting investors had likely priced

The Norway-based investment company is now known as Arcane Crypto AB and trades as "ARCANE."Feb 5, 2021 at 3:36 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 5, 2021 at 4:26 p.m. UTCArcane Crypto Lists on Nasdaq First North After Reverse TakeoverCryptocurrency investment firm Arcane Crypto is now listed on Sweden’s Nasdaq First North following a reverse takeover of Vertical…

Crypto exchange Binance said it will stop listing the Monero (XMR) privacy token as of Feb. 20.Monero, as well as the three other tokens to be delisted – Aragon (ANT), Multichain (MULTI) and Vai (VAI) – no longer meet the standards Binance expects, the exchange said in blog post."When a coin or token no longer

FEATURE As Wall Street raises the stakes around cryptocurrency, large institutional players are circling this new asset class and bringing with them their own set of requirements. For example, there’s a need for qualified custodians to hold the assets these big-money investors will trade, as in the traditional, regulated financial realm. But a less-discussed yet…