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Nov 11, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 11, 2020 at 4:18 p.m. UTCAndrew Keys(DARMA Capital)Ethereum Heavyweights Launch LiquidStake Loans to Ease Eth 2.0 ‘Lockup’A coalition of Ethereum OGs is tackling the so-called “lockup” issue, whereby the first generation of participants staking crypto on the transitioning Eth 2.0 blockchain must commit their coins to a…

Apr 24, 2020 at 17:15 UTCUpdated Apr 24, 2020 at 17:24 UTCStephanie Hurder, a CoinDesk columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an economic advisory focused on the implementation of emerging technologies, and an academic contributor to the World Economic Forum. She has a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard.  That’s how Vox journalist Ezra Klein…

Jun 30, 2020 at 12:10 UTC(krithnarong Raknagn/Shutterstock)Cryptocurrency investors have long sought a standardized way of measuring the size and depth of digital asset markets. A new data product from Coin Metrics seeks a way to approximate it. The cryptocurrency data firm announced its free float supply methodology for digital assets Tuesday to improve and standardize…

A&G, a Spain-based banking entity focused on private banking, launched the first crypto fund under Spanish jurisprudence.The firm, with €12.4 billion ($14 billion) in assets under management as of the end of 2022, launched a hedge fund that will be accessible to professional investors, A&G said in a statement released on Monday.The fund managed by…

CoinDesk’s longtime CEO Kevin Worth is out amid a major restructuring initiated by the media, events and information company’s new owner, the crypto exchange Bullish.In Worth's place the exchange has appointed Sara Stratoberdha, who previously ran business development for Bullish."CoinDesk will remain an independent subsidiary of Bullish and Sara is committed to maintaining CoinDesk's journalistic

Jocelyn Yang is a markets reporter at CoinDesk. She is a recent graduate of Emerson College's journalism program. Bitcoin (BTC) continued its slightly downward consolidation on Tuesday, slipping just below $27,000 as investors kept close attention on the debt ceiling negotiations in Washington.The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was recently trading at $26,950, down roughly…

Most Securities and Exchange Commission chiefs step down after a new president arrives, and for the crypto industry, Chair Gary Gensler's final moment is a point of high interest. Digital assets leaders have battled him in court, and their friends in Congress have attacked Gensler for standing in the way of innovation, but his time

The U.K.’s financial watchdog published guidance on its new crypto advertising rules Thursday.The Financial Conduct Authority’s new regime took effect on Oct. 8, and the regulator has been consulting on guidance since June. Under the new rules, firms are required to include appropriate risk warnings on all their communications to U.K. customers that have a

South Africa has started licensing crypto firms, with Luno among the first batch of companies to receive regulatory approval. Regulators in the country have said around 60 firms are set to receive approval by April.Crypto exchange Luno received a license from South Africa’s financial regulator, the company said Thursday, becoming one of the first crypto