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Nov 23, 2020 at 5:32 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 23, 2020 at 5:33 p.m. UTCNew GnosisDao Bets on ‘Futarchy,’ a Prediction-Market Governance ModelGnosis, one of Ethereum’s earliest ICOs, is spinning up a DAO that uses a novel mode of governance you’ve probably never heard of.The newly launched GnosisDAO will allow Gnosis users to vote on platform…

Financial markets have been shaken in the past week following a series of bank collapses, providing a perfect setting for the decentralized financial system to stand out as an alternative, and for a continued advance in cryptocurrency markets, Bernstein said in a research report Saturday.

EOS' launch has been fraught with controversy. Some users are fed up, and they're forking the protocol to give the network a better shot.

A long-awaited approval on a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) may not come until 2019.

Jul 31, 2020 at 12:50 UTCUpdated Jul 31, 2020 at 13:00 UTCEthereum art (CoinDesk archives)Ethereum 2.0: Closer Than Ever, Still Plenty of Work to Do“Though now evolved in many ways,” Gavin Wood wrote in Ethereum’s 2015 yellow paper, “the key functionality of a blockchain with a Turing-complete language and an effectively unlimited inter-transaction storage capability…

Digital Currency Group (CoinDesk’s parent company) is planning to hoover up up to a billion dollars worth of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), the company announced Wednesday.With subsidiary Grayscale’s flagship product facing sudden competition for brokerage accounts’ bitcoin dollars, the crypto conglomerate increased its GBTC buy range by $250 million. It said it has bought $388…

news Cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain may be about to appoint an existing executive to lead the firm as its new CEO. A South China Morning Post report citing people with “knowledge of the matter” said Thursday that the “potential successor” of the firm’s current co-CEOs Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan is Haichao Wang, currently Bitmain’s director of…

The U.S. may be about to get its first spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund, after a federal court ruled that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must review its rejection of Grayscale Investments' attempt to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) into an ETF.Grayscale Investments, the manager behind world’s largest cryptocurrency fund, first applied for…

Oct 9, 2020 at 18:10 UTCUpdated Oct 9, 2020 at 18:13 UTCTransitions. (Patrick Hendry / Unsplash)Yearn.Finance’s Creator Says He’s Quit DeFi, but Project Has Bench StrengthYearn.Finance is managing a leadership transition right now and appears to be doing so effectively.Andre Cronje, the prolific coder and creator of Yearn, said he’s quit the project – and…