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Trading volumes of XRP tokens against the Korean won hit $2.5 billion on South Korean exchange UpBit in the past 24 hours, the highest among counterparts, in a sign of speculative frenzy.This was more than 50% of the total trading volumes on UpBit in that period. Data shows market depth stood at nearly $5 million…

OKCoin must scrub misleading statements that suggest its customers’ accounts are protected by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), the U.S. banking regulator ordered late Thursday, complaining the company is making false claims.The FDIC has demanded OKCoin USA Inc., the San Francisco-based sister exchange to OKX, remove any offending claims from its site immediately…

Jun 19, 2020 at 22:28 UTCUpdated Jun 19, 2020 at 22:38 UTCJuneteenth Flag (Nafsadh/Wikimedia Commons)‘Satoshi Was a Black Woman’: Blockchain Entrepreneurs Talk Financial Inclusion on JuneteenthRacial diversity and financial inclusion are good for cryptocurrency and blockchain – and the industry has work to do. That was the overarching conclusion of a virtual Juneteenth event put together…

Coinbase (COIN) and the Securities and Exchange Commission will meet in court this week. The hearing – the questions asked and the answers given – should provide some hints on how the case may go (for now, anyway).You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here…

The most expensive non-fungible token (NFT) sold in 2019 was a digital car for the blockchain racing game, F1 Delta Time (at just over $100,000, the sale seems small-fry now). At the time, the “hyper-limited” 1–1–1 was the first official Formula 1 NFT, the first car auctioned by F1 Delta Time, and the priciest virtual…

NEWS Sep 11, 2018 at 16:39 UTC  |  Updated  Sep 11, 2018 at 16:41 UTC A U.S. federal judge has ruled that a pair of reportedly fraudulent initial coin offerings fall under securities laws. District judge Raymond Dearie ruled Tuesday that a criminal case against a pair of allegedly fraudulent ICOs conducted by Brooklyn resident Maksim…

Bitcoin started the week with a 3% decline, falling below $58,400. The drop came ahead of expectations of the U.S. Federal Reserve potentially cutting rates, influencing market sentiment. U.S.-listed Bitcoin ETFs saw significant inflows on Friday at over $263 million in the highest since July 22. Ether ETFs also saw inflows, though much smaller at

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Zero-knowledge rollup ZKM has been unveiled out of incubation from the MetisDAO Foundation, saying it plans to make Ethereum the "universal settlement layer for all blockchain and non-blockchain applications."With funding from the foundation that oversees development of Metis, a layer-2 Ethereum protocol, ZKM is developing a hybrid approach that combines Optmistic and Zero-Knowledge rollups into…