NFL Players Union Strikes Deal to Help Athletes to Earn Crypto

news Crypto winter has been a boon for highly-anticipated bitcoin futures exchange Bakkt, an executive from its parent firm said Thursday. Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), said during the company’s Q1 earnings call that the ongoing bear market has been “helpful” for Bakkt, which was initially scheduled to launch last December, then delayed…

news A vulnerability in Libra’s open-source code that would have enabled malicious actors to manipulate smart contracts has been uncovered and patched by a third-party audit firm specializing in cryptocurrency. Specifically, developers working for startup OpenZeppelin found vulnerabilities in Move, the scripting language developed by Facebook for the open-source Libra cryptocurrency project, an effort backed by major companies…

Crossover Markets is waving the flag as one of the only ultra-low-latency electronic communication networks (ECN) in crypto. Illuminate founder Mark Beeston will join Crossover’s board of directors. 06:39 Why Sequoia Capital Is Raising $600M to Launch New Crypto Fund 06:14 Twitter Joined $20M Funding Round for Bitcoin Payments Provider OpenNode 06:14 Twitter Joined $20M

Sep 18, 2020 at 16:00 UTCBitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 18, 2020As bitcoin battles to establish a foothold above $11K and with DeFi surging on Ethereum, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup! For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases , subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS. This episode is…

U.S. SEC Chair Gary Gensler recently stated that he expects to see spot Ether ETFs available as early as September. Roxanna Islam, from VettaFi, decodes the issuer's S-1 filings for these ETFs and discusses the progress made since the approvals of the spot bitcoin ETFs earlier this year. In Ask an Expert, Eric Tomaszewski from

A third consecutive week of sizable net inflows into cryptocurrency funds has pushed the yearly total above $1 billion, according to digital asset manager Coinshares.Digital asset investment products saw net inflows of $293 million last week, bringing year-to-date inflows to a total of $1.14 billion. That makes 2023 as having the third highest yearly inflows

news An 18-year-old Japanese youth has been sent to prosecutors in the country’s first ever trial involving cryptocurrency cyber-theft. According to a report from The Japan Times on Friday, the unnamed minor from the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, allegedly stole about 15 million yen ($134,340) in the cryptocurrency monacoin. In Japan, you are legally…

Someone needs to remind the European Commission that it can’t have its cake and eat it too.An EC proposal this week for regulating a future central bank digital currency (CBDC) insisted that it must “protect privacy,” describing a system of NFC chip-based offline payments in which “nobody would be able to see what people are…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A group of U.S. lawmakers say Facebook cannot be trusted to launch a digital currency.In a Tuesday missive, U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) ordered Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to “immediately discontinue the company’s pilot of Novi” and end its…