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Jun 9, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Jun 9, 2020 at 13:37 UTCCredit: CoinDesk archivesInfrastructure-as-a-service firm Bison Trails has added support for yet another self-proclaimed Ethereum killer: NEAR Protocol. Inked Tuesday, Bison Trails will help host the newly launched NEAR Protocol’s validator set, currently consisting of over 150 nodes including some 40 of the project’s investors.…

Nov 26, 2019 at 17:30 UTCUpdated Nov 26, 2019 at 19:07 UTCMARKETS DAILY: Tokenization Challenges and Another Tether LawsuitWelcome to the CoinDesk Markets Daily Podcast, a 10-minute look at what's driving the crypto markets today. The podcast appears daily and we'd love you to subscribe in your favorite podcast app or grab the MP3 here.Tune…

Jan 8, 2020 at 12:00 UTCUpdated Jan 8, 2020 at 12:03 UTCFlex Yang, Co-Founder of BabelThis post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Flex Yang is co-founder and CEO of Babel Finance. Babel Finance is one of China’s…

Nike's .SWOOSH Web3 platform has released its first non-fungible token (NFT) sneaker collection, surpassing $1 million in sales despite persistent delays and technical issues that hindered the user experience.The sale of the highly-anticipated Nike virtual creations began on May 15, nearly a week after their previously-announced start date of May 8. The first round of…

opinion Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers. In last week’s column — my third on Libra — I referred to a core…

news The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled charges with two former executives of AriseBank, which was hit with a token sale fraud lawsuit in early 2018. Former AriseBank CEO Jared Rice Sr. and former COO Stanley Ford will pay a combined $2.7 million in disgorgement and penalties, as well as $187,767 each…

Jan 14, 2020 at 12:10 UTCUpdated Jan 14, 2020 at 12:12 UTCRegulated Derivatives Will ‘Legitimize’ Crypto, Says CFTC ChairThe chairman of the Commodities and Futures Exchange Commission (CFTC) believes regulated derivatives will instill market confidence in cryptocurrencies.Chair Heath Tarbert told Cheddar Monday that his agency is helping create a regulated futures market that investors would…

feature The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) is reluctant to approve the initial public offering (IPO) applications of Chinese bitcoin mining equipment manufacturers, according to a person involved in the talks. Following the 2017 cryptocurrency market boom, mining giants Canaan Creative, Ebang and Bitmain applied in May, June and September of this year, respectively, to…

NEWS Switzerland is to see the launch of the first ever exchange-traded product (ETP) tracking multiple cryptocurrencies. As reported in the The Financial Times on Saturday, the country’s principle stock exchange, Six, has given the go ahead for the ETP, which is called the Amun Crypto ETP and will go by the ticker symbol “HODL.” Trading will…