TokenInsight: 2020 Cryptocurrency Options Industry Report

news Canadian blockchain companies want to know where their government stands on the crypto space, a new report commissioned by the Canadian Digital Chamber of Commerce (CDCC) shows. The report – one of the first to take a comprehensive snapshot of Canada’s blockchain ecosystem – sheds new light on the country’s nascent crypto firms, who…

Daniel Kuhn is a reporter on CoinDesk's Features team. He owns BTC and ETH.Some people were annoyed when they heard Ethereum Name Service, more commonly known as ENS, would be issuing a token. It was the “one, legitimate tokenless project,” and it was bending the knee to the market. Tokens are speculative by nature, prone…

Dec 14, 2020 at 9:56 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 14, 2020 at 10:18 p.m. UTC(itsarasak thithuekthak/iStock/Getty Images Plus)Google Down: The Perils of CentralizationGoogle was down for only an hour, but Monday’s outage served as a jarring reminder of how much modern existence online depends on the centralized search engine colossus.From Gmail and Google Calendar to YouTube…

news The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) again delayed a decision on whether to approve or reject a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) on Tuesday. In a new document published by the SEC, the regulator said it would hold off on making a decision on the Bitwise ETF proposal filed with NYSE Arca. The proposal was first filed in…

Apr 30, 2020 at 09:00 UTCUpdated Apr 30, 2020 at 09:33 UTCJoseph Tsai, Executive Vice Chairman (Credit: Cody Glenn / Flickr)Alibaba has patented a blockchain-based means of vetting the originality of songs.Granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on April 21, the process as described by the Chinese e-commerce giant addresses one of the…

news Today marks a week since I left my home in Venezuela. So, here I am, watching the news since 6 a.m., haven’t separated from my phone all day. I’m worried about my loved ones, wondering if I could have done more before leaving, but knowing I had to leave anyway. I left everything I…

MetaMask, the most popular wallet for Ethereum, will roll out a "pooled staking" feature to its users beginning this week, in a move that would make it cheaper to contribute to the blockchain network's security compared to running a full validator node.The new feature will allow users to participate in Ethereum staking – a popular

Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Prices: The market remains optimistic about a bitcoin ETF, and good economic data from the U.S. is keeping it in the green.Insights: Singapore's ease of doing business, regulatory structure and digital infrastructure largely accounted for its number two ranking in the CoinDesk Hubs survey.Bitcoin is Comfortable at $30KMost major digital assets…

Founder and CEO, Tron FoundationBorn in 1990, Justin Sun is the founder and CEO of the Tron Foundation, the company behind the Tron blockchain. He is also the CEO of BitTorrent Inc. which he acquired in 2018. Sun was previously a representative and advisor for payments protocol company Ripple Labs in China, and also founded…