Korea’s Financial Regulator Wants to Use the Blockchain for Stock Trading

Apr 6, 2020 at 13:40 UTCUpdated Apr 6, 2020 at 14:27 UTCTron CEO Justin Sun speaks at niTROn Summit 2019, photo by Brady Dale for CoinDeskPoloniex’s New Tron-Powered IEO Platform Moves Exchange Closer to Justin Sun’s OrbitPoloniex has launched an initial exchange offering (IEO) platform that aligns the exchange more closely with the interests of…

news Canadian securities regulators have seized control of the Einstein cryptocurrency exchange. The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) announced Monday that it had filed to take control of Einstein Exchange after the platform said on Oct. 31 that it planned to shut down its operations within the next 60 to 90 days. Einstein owes its…

Dec 9, 2020 at 9:59 a.m. UTCUpdated Dec 9, 2020 at 10:42 a.m. UTCING Bank Opens Up About Crypto Custody Solution at Singapore Fintech EventAnother big bank edging closer to a crypto custody offering, Netherlands-based ING, spoke publicly for the first time this week about about its preliminary trials with digital assets.Speaking at the Singapore…

Apr 13, 2020 at 08:22 UTCUpdated Apr 13, 2020 at 08:29 UTCHTC EXODUS image via Nikhilesh De for CoinDeskTaiwan-based tech giant HTC is to allow users of its Exodus blockchain phone mine cryptocurrency, but it isn't going to make them rich. As reported by Forbes on Friday, the firm has partnered with Mida Labs to…

Artificial intelligence (AI) platform Ritual has raised $25 million, led by Archetype and with participation from Accomplice and Robot Ventures, to address the centralized nature of the AI revolution that has unfolded this year.Ritual's aim is to open access to the infrastructure that lies behind AI innovation, which at present "lies in the hands of

news Bitcoin just passed an interesting milestone today, one we haven’t seen since November 27, 2017. According to CoinMetrics.io, there are now over a million daily active addresses, a number that is defined as the number of unique “from” or “to” addresses used per day. Image via CoinMetrics Kevin Rooke noticed the move and Tweeted:…

news On location in Tel Aviv at the Ethereal Summit, hosted September 15, CoinDesk’s Daniel Kuhn spoke with some of the major players in the ethereum space about where the second largest blockchain is heading. Billed as “the world’s computer,” ethereum has not lived up to its initial marketing campaign. ConsenSys and a crowd of…

Feb 24, 2020 at 23:01 UTCSTAND BACK: Justin Sun's Gucci sneakers on stage at the first NiTron Summit in San Francisco, January 2019. (Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk)The people who run the Steem blockchain executed a reversible soft fork Sunday, stopping one of the largest piles of tokens from voting. The move comes days…

news Deribit claims it’s becoming the first crypto futures and options exchange to provide large-volume trades of bitcoin and ether derivatives. The move comes via a partnership with institutional messaging service Paradigm, according to a BNN Bloomberg report on Thursday. Deribit’s CEO, John Jansen, reportedly said the new service will offer block trades with a minimum of 40 bitcoin…