The Creator of the Web Signed Up for Blockstack – And ‘Shit Got Real’

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation targeting terror financing from digital assets.Questions remain as to how useful crypto is for terror financing, with figures showing it is relatively small compared with traditional methods.A bipartisan group of U.S. senators including Mitt Romney (R-UT) introduced legislation that expands sanctions to foreign entities supporting all U.S.-designated terrorist

news Marlin Protocol has reeled in a $3 million seed round from Binance Labs, Arrington XRP, Electric Capital, NGC and other investors. The startup, based in San Francisco and Bangalore, India, works to increase network speeds across a variety of blockchains. Throughput constraints – or limitations on how much data can smoothly flow through a…

news Blockchain provenance startup Everledger has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by internet giant Tencent. In an announcement on Monday, Everledger said Tencent has now joined its board as part of the investment deal. Bloomberg Beta, Rakuten, Fidelity, Graphene Ventures and Vickers Venture Partners also took part in the round. The U.K.-based…

Sep 28, 2020 at 16:00 UTCBitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 28, 2020With bitcoin’s record-breaking run above $10,000 and Twitter talking blockchain strategy, 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 sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.Today's stories: Bitcoin is often…

news A top Federal Reserve official said Wednesday that the U.S. central bank is “actively looking at and debating” issuance of a digital currency, amid growing worries among current and former regulators that the dollar might be at risk of losing its status as the world’s reserve currency. Speaking at a local business event in…

news The Ethereum Foundation has just awarded a $5 million grant to Parity Technologies to support the firm’s work building the blockchain network’s next iteration, ethereum 2.0. The organization announced Monday that the funding is a “scalability, usability and security” grant, in particular aimed to boost work on Casper, a proof-of-stake protocol upgrade, and the scaling…

news Cryptocurrency custody startup Casa has just launched a browser extension for its lightning network-enabled bitcoin node. Now, users will be able to interact with their Casa Nodes – hardware devices that connect to and help validate the bitcoin blockchain – directly on any cryptocurrency website that boasts lightning network functionality. Lightning is a layer-two…

Tokens of ether (ETH) liquid staking platforms as well as Coinbase shares surged Thursday on hope asset management giant BlackRock (BLK) may soon file to offer a spot ether exchange-traded fund (ETF).The iShares Ethereum Trust was registered by BlackRock Advisors as a corporate entity in Delaware. News of the filing Thursday morning sent ether soaring

Oct 28, 2020 at 20:31 UTCUpdated Oct 28, 2020 at 20:39 UTCActing Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks asked for public input into how distributed ledgers might be used for banking services. (Credit: Andriy Blokhin / Shutterstock)Online Lender SoFi’s Application to Create a National Bank Conditionally Approved by USStudent loan and financial services provider SoFi’s…