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Notwithstanding regulatory uncertainty, stablecoins that kick out cash to customers are here and vying for the many trillions held in money-market funds and dollar deposits globally.With the potential to make payments on the internet more cost effective, PayPal sees a decoupling of the payment capability of stablecoins from the yield-generating capability of money-market funds.00:56MoonPay and

Two of my children were playing the other day, building a bridge with LEGO. Happy and feeling accomplished, they were just about to complete their creation when my other child ran over and kicked it down. Pleased with the destruction, he ran away, leaving both of his siblings crying.Isn’t this the story of life? Some

feature It is a truth universally acknowledged that crypto aficionados love Burning Man. Both the long-running festival in the Nevada desert and the bitcoin ethos revolve around openness to exploring new governance models with fewer rules. Take me, for instance. I still have the colorful Burning Man ticket from 2010, when, like so many future…

Bitcoin miners may not get all the credit they deserve when it comes to pushing the innovation envelope. You might even call them modern day wildcatters, or the explorers who search the ends of the earth for untapped oil deposits. Or at least that’s what Gideon Powell, the chief executive of Cholla Inc., a Texas-based…

news The team behind buzzy bitcoin trading game Hxro is about to open its app to thousands more players, with 35,000 emails on a waiting list of 115,000 to be whitelisted today. For those who haven’t caught up on crypto’s latest gaming craze, Hxro (pronounced “hero”) gamifies crypto trading with its own token, HXRO. The team behind…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Bitcoin climbed nearly 1% to back above $27,000 ahead of U.S. government’s Nonfarm Payrolls report set to release at 8:30 AM ET. The jobs report is expected to…

20 million tokens of the 100 million total supply will be sold on Fjord Foundry at a fixed price of $0.30. "Rage Quit" feature introduced to allow private investors to get their allocation early for a 60% haircut. RAGE will be one of the first tokens on Hyperliquid, a newly-launched layer-1 blockchain. 13:06 How Tap-To-Earn

Cathie Wood’s investment firm, ARK Invest, offloaded a sizeable chunk of Coinbase (COIN) as the shares of the Nasdaq-listed crypto exchange rose to a 20-month high on Wednesday.ARK sold 283,104 shares worth $42.59 million based on Coinbase’s last close of $150.46, draining holdings from its ARK Innovation (ARKK) and ARK Next Generation Internet (ARKW) exchange-traded