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Aug 27, 2020 at 15:31 UTCUpdated Aug 27, 2020 at 15:37 UTCCoinbase Custody CEO Sam McIngvale (CoinDesk archives)Coinbase Custody and Bison Trails announced on Wednesday that users would now be able to stake their Solana (SOL) tokens on Bison Trails platforms.  In an announcement posted on its website, blockchain infrastructure firm Bison Trails said this…

Traders have locked in $345 million in bitcoin options expiring four days after the Nov. 4 elections. Distribution of open interest shows bullish sentiment, according to Wintermute. Crypto traders speculating on how the impending U.S. elections might affect the digital assets industry have locked millions in bitcoin (BTC) options tied to the event. The so-called

Indian regulators' clampdown on cryptocurrency businesses is forcing the exchange startup Unocoin to experiment with stablecoins and ATMs to continue receiving fiat deposits from customers. Unocoin co-founder Sunny Ray told CoinDesk his company hasn't been able to transact through regular banking channels with its 1.3 million customers for several months, after the Reserve Bank of…

feature JPMorgan Chase’s blockchain team has developed a privacy feature for ethereum-based blockchains, obscuring not only how much money is being sent but who is sending it. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, JPMorgan has built an extension to the Zether protocol, a fully decentralized, cryptographic protocol for confidential payments, compatible with ethereum and other smart contract platforms and…

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Despite recent underperformance, ether is potentially a contrarian bet into the year-end, the report said. Bitwise noted that the majority of stablecoins are issued on the Ethereum blockchain and more than 60% of all DeFi assets are locked on the network. Ethereum is like the Microsoft of blockchains, the asset manager said. Ether (ETH), the

Feb 14, 2020 at 09:00 UTCRESEARCH ME: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to learn more about "black swan" events that would sink the U.S. dollar. (Image via Shutterstock)US Intelligence Officials Are Funding Research on Dollar-Crushing ‘Black Swan’ EventsThe U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) wants to sponsor a…

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