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Jan 3, 2020 at 19:05 UTCUpdated Jan 3, 2020 at 19:49 UTCU.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York image via ShutterstockSEC Asks for Telegram ICO Financials Ahead of CEO’s DepositionTelegram has been ordered by a judge to explain why it should not have to turn over financials concerning its $1.7 billion initial…

Jun 18, 2020 at 16:09 UTCBlockchain Bites: Trump on Bitcoin, Powell on Digital Dollars and the Truth About Terrorist FinancingThe Washington Examiner published an excerpt of John Bolton’s new book detailing a dramatic scene in which President Trump told Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to go after bitcoin before tackling trade with China. This news follows a…

Crypto exchanges Binance, Huobi, Bybit and OKX have listed Worldcoin's WLD token, which went live on Monday.At the time of writing, WLD token was up over 20% at $2, according to data from Coingecko. Worldcoin is the much hyped crypto project of ChatGPT co-founder Sam Altman.Huobi and Bybit have already listed the token and both…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Shaurya is the Co-Leader of the CoinDesk tokens and data team, focusing on decentralized finance, markets, on-chain data, and governance across all major and minor blockchains.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April…

news Facebook has hired a lobbying firm led by a former head of policy at the crypto exchange Coinbase amid regulatory pushback from U.S. lawmakers over its Libra crypto project. The lobbying disclosure database compiled by ProPublica shows the Washington D.C.-based FS Vector registered with the congress on Aug. 23 that it has signed on…

(Rafael Cerqueira, Unsplash) Crypto Long & Short: Crypto Markets Are Maturing, but Gen Z Is Rewriting How Markets WorkNow, I have no idea how old you are, nor do I want to make any assumptions. I will assume, though, that since you are reading this, you have an interest in markets and/or crypto assets. And…

news View BTC has fallen more than $1,000 in the last 24 hours, establishing a bearish lower high at $12,061. A high-volume break above $12,061 is thus needed to revive the bullish view put forward by a bearish channel breakout seen in the 4-hour chart earlier this week. That would open the doors to $13,880.…

news Blockchain payments infrastructure firm Ripple has announced the latest release of XRP Ledger. “Stewarded” by Ripple, the open-source protocol is maintained by a network of peer-to-peer servers with XRP as its native “bridge” token. According to a release issued by Ripple on Thursday, version 1.2.0 of the ledger introduces a number of changes, including…

Institutional investors increased allocations to XRP, Stellar's XLM and Solana's SOL based products this year even as market sentiment remains generally tepid and tethered to Fed hikes.A new report by CCData shows investments in XLM-based products increased by 62.7% to $17.3 million in assets under management (AUM), led by a significant spike in Grayscale’s XLM…