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A new privacy coin called "Beam" just launched on mainnet. It's based on the highly-regarded "mimblewimble" white paper outlining support for confidential transactions and network anonymity on a blockchain.

Decred's Jake Yocom-Piatt explains in this exclusive op-ed why he thinks information asymmetry is a key factor driving the manic buying and panic selling cycles in the crypto markets.

Japanese e-commerce giant DMM.com is in the process of winding down its cryptocurrency mining business due to the crypto market slump.

The XRP Army is hands-down crypto's most vocal community. Who are they?

CoinDesk profiles Brenna Sparks, the SpankChain advisor who is equal parts porn star and cryptocurrency evangelist, during a recent visit to Las Vegas.

CoinDesk profiles author Glen Weyl, whose radical ideas are reviving development on the world's third-largest blockchian, ethereum.

Games frequently serve as an experimental playground for new technology, writes Devin Finzer.

In this op-ed, Ouriel Ohayon argues why 2019 will be the year blockchain UX sees a new level of priority among developers and companies.

Fixing crypto Twitter starts with following positive examples – and a recognition of the problem.

The denationalization of money is finally unfolding organically in the form of digital assets.

National Bank of Kuwait has joined Ripple’s blockchain-based payments network seeking faster cross-border money transfers.

What do virtual real estate and distributed computing have in common? They're both markets where P2P networks can improve efficiencies.

Bank of America may be eyeing “ATM as a Service” solutions powered by blockchain tech, according to a newly revealed patent application.

One of the cryptographers most often cited in Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper has reason to think the industry's future is bright.

From advances in art trading to setbacks for celebrities on the blockchain, it was a year of serious building for the crypto collectable market.

Ethereum may have caught the world's attention but it needs to answer fundamental questions before being able to deliver on its promise.

The questions on ethereum the CFTC put to the public show that the regulator has been considering derivatives on cryptocurrencies other than bitcoin - they also point to a new collaborative approach to sector oversight.

Decentralization may sound like a sexy concept, but realism may be a better real-deal solution, argues Elly Zhang.

Mimblewimble is about to go live – not in one, but in two new cryptocurrency implementations.

ConsenSys 'spokes' are being offered the option to seek outside funding or accept severance packages, sources tell CoinDesk.

Vitalik Buterin just donated $300,000 in ether to three ethereum 2.0 startups in response to a Twitter thread.

Far from seeing the death of crypto, we may be entering its most exciting phase, argues Michael J. Casey.

The so-called "hash war" over the future of bitcoin cash is over and it's up to market forces to decide the fate of its two rival cryptocurrencies.

Nym Technologies, a stealth startup sporting a roster of privacy activists and cryptography experts, plans "to anonymize the world."

South Korean messaging giant Kakao has led an over-$15 million crypto investment in Israeli-based public blockchain project Orbs.