US Border Officials to Test Blockchain for Certificate Tracking

Stellar is a blockchain-based payment protocol launched in 2014 by Jed McCaleb – founder of Mt. Gox and co-founder of Ripple – and lawyer Joyce Kim. Stellar’s native cryptocurrency, lumens (XLM) serves several functions on the network. It can be used to pay for transaction fees and can act as a bridge, enabling users to…

TP ICAP, the world’s largest interdealer-broker, announced last week that its Fusion Digital Assets marketplace for spot crypto trading had gone live with its first trade. The traditional finance giant is bringing crypto to more institutional investors during a prolonged bear market and after a number of headline-grabbing scandals rocked the industry.“While the crypto-native landscape…

Jan 7, 2021 at 9:19 a.m. UTCFiCAS’ Actively Managed Crypto ETP Gets Green Light for European ExpansionSwiss crypto investment manager FiCAS AG says it has received regulatory approval to make its cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP) available across the European market.FiCAS announced Thursday it now has permission to make its 15 FiCAS Active Crypto ETP (BTCA)…

Aug 13, 2020 at 10:20 UTCUpdated Aug 13, 2020 at 10:42 UTCCryptocurrency miners (PHOTOCREO Michal Bednarek/Shutterstock)With Ethereum transaction fees soaring, the daily profit that can be achieved by miners on the network is now at its highest point in 27 months. Data from BitInfoCharts shows that the daily profitability for Ethereum miner operators is at…

May 18, 2020 at 10:00 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/Harry Collins PhotographyFalconX's multi-million-dollar pre-seed funding from an impressive list of investors reflects institutional demand for a platform that aims to fight artificially inflated trading volumes in the crypto space. The cryptocurrency trading platform announced Thursday it had raised a total of $17 million in a round led by…

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…

Gamers are eagerly awaiting the next chapter of the massively successful Grand Theft Auto (GTA), and its developer, Rockstar Games, recently confirmed that a trailer for GTA VI will be arriving in December.But a question on some people’s minds is: will it have an in-game cryptocurrency?In the decade since the last GTA game, crypto gaming

Nov 9, 2020 at 14:00 UTCUpdated Nov 9, 2020 at 14:07 UTCBitcoin was higher Monday as stocks got a shot of optimism from news of progress on a coronavirus vaccine. (Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)First Mover: What’s Next for Bitcoin as Wall Street Gets Vaccine BoosterBitcoin was higher for a second day, staying in a range…

Feb 7, 2020 at 05:14 UTCUpdated Feb 7, 2020 at 05:25 UTCScreenshot of the smart contract monument created in memorial of Dr. Li WenliangSomeone has just created a smart contract on ethereum with source codes in the shape of a monument in memorial of Dr. Li Wenliang, the whistleblower of China's coronavirus outbreak, who died…