MARKETS DAILY HOLIDAYS: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Bitcoin

Jun 18, 2020 at 01:45 UTCBinance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CoinDesk archives) Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trade volume, has joined the Indian tech industry association that helped overturn the nation’s crypto banking ban earlier this year. The cooperation between Binance and the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) is an early step…

Aug 18, 2020 at 11:49 UTCBitcoin exchange reserves have fallen to a 21-month low, a possible sign investors are feeling bullish about the shape of the market. Glassnode data shows the number of bitcoins held in exchange addresses fell by 0.83% to 2,610,278 BTC on Monday – the lowest level since Nov. 24, 2018.Investors tend…

NEWS Nov 12, 2018 at 05:00 UTC A patent application published Thursday claims the process of conducting scientific research can benefit from the blockchain. Led by a team at IBM's Watson Research Center, the patent application presents a vision for dynamic collaboration – one where researchers can track their work across institutional borders. It's another non-financial…

A severe bug discovered just weeks ago in bitcoin's code has been exploited – albeit on a lesser-known cryptocurrency. The developers behind the pigeoncoin cryptocurrency confirmed the exploit to CoinDesk on Tuesday, reporting that an unknown attacker successfully took advantage of the bug on September 26th, showcasing in the wild how it could have been…

Grayscale, the investment firm behind one of the largest spot bitcoin ETFs (GBTC), has introduced Wednesday a new digital asset fund that invests in artificial intelligence-focused (AI) tokens. The Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund is accessible to accredited investors, and "was designed to capture the growth of protocols at the intersection of blockchain and artificial intelligence,"

On March 18, some $9.5 billion was traded on decentralized exchanges, or DEXs, across all chains tracked by DeFi data site DefiLlama. March was a month of heavy trading, to be sure, but volume on the 18th was about the same as the day before. But take a look at the data from a different

If venture investments and acquisitions provide a window into the sentiment in markets, boy, did we get a big dose of information today. Today we look at investments in the world’s best-known developer of the Lightning Network, a new prominent corporate investor for a tokenized securities platform and Square’s investment in a real-time payments company. We also look at a set of acquisitions,…

U. S. Customs and Border Protection will begin its live testing of a shipment tracking system on a blockchain after Labor Day, an agency official said. As previously reported, CBP plans to trial blockchain technology in a "live fire testing" as part of an effort to eliminate paperwork in verifying North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)…

Crypto exchange Binance and French Fintech, a nonprofit focused on promoting financial technology in France, have launched an initiative to support the development of the French and European blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem.As part of the initiative, called “Objective Moon,” Binance will provide €100 million ($116 million) to establish a research and development hub in France…